Katie White and that other guy (Jules de Martino), who comprise The Ting Tings played at 9:30 club this past Friday evening, and here is the breakdown...Katie was a fantastic front lady for the two-piece, as she projected her vocals well and kept a great rapport with the audience. Jules hit the drums a bit and wore yellow Ferris Bueller meets Bono shades that made him appear wonderfully mysterious. Except, not. Katie sounded especially well in Great DJ and Fruit Machine, while slightly below par on Shut Up and Let Me Go and That's Not My Name. I enjoyed the entire set of 11 or so songs, but I was definitely waiting for more as the show ended. I guess playing cover songs is not in their repertoire, as they basically performed the entire debut album, We Started Nothing, on shuffle- and then called it a night. It is a good thing that their audience was made up of mostly MTV fans and other such pleasant beings, to say the least.
The set was just okay, the crowd's energy felt like the Republican National Convention, and the evening left something to be desired. Other than those, the scallops were delightful.Still, I give a huge high-five to White for her personal energy and vocal quality, and I will continue to cheer this duo on as they ascend from their humble Leigh, Greater Manchester roots to international stardom. Someone needs to bridge the gap between the taste-retarded and the ones who listen.
Rating: just okay
-the Majr
2 comments:
i think i'm more forgiving than you when it comes to vocal quality (i expect it to take a hit live). what i'm still sorta stuck on with this show is the amount of programming used. i recall thinking at one point, "wow, this sounds close to perfect" and then realizing that save for her guitar, his drums and the two of them singing, everything else may as well have been the album. ::sigh:: ting tings, you're a fun show and you make great music. now hire yourselves a backing band and crank this shit out...
the vocal quality was better than i expected... the rest was just sort filler, it seemed. we'll see. they're young(-er than we are, or at least she is).
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