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Tuesday October 12, 2010 sees the release of the brand new single “Hands” from
The Ting Tings. A work of pure electro-disco heaven, “Hands” is a global shout out to everyone who’s working too hard.
After a whirlwind of touring live in the US, Europe and almost everywhere else non-stop for the last two years, The Ting Tings chose to move to Berlin to live and work. Renting out a disused basement jazz club in East Berlin’s Freidrichshain District, they turned it into their own studio. Spending the winter of 2009 with their music equipment, fairy-lights, pens and gaffer tape and with no TV, no visiting friends, no distractions at all, they wrote, recorded and produced their next album. “Hands” is the first track to come from those sessions.
“Our time in Berlin was a fresh start, with no rules again,” explains Jules. “When you’ve had an album that’s been successful, the danger is you go back in the studio, look back
and try and emulate it”. “It’d be so lazy and easy to make the same album twice,” adds Katie. A blast of the dancefloor monster “Hands” shows they mean what they say - a totally brand new sound from The Ting Tings and an exciting taste of things to come.read full bio
