The Ting Tings have revealed that at one time they were so crap that singer Katie White didn't know how to make her electric guitar work. The chart topping band's drummer Jules De Martino admitted: "We did our first proper gig at the Birmingham Barfly. It was where Katie picked up a guitar for the first time - but she couldn't get a sound out. She had to ask the audience what to do and they shouted back: 'Turn the amp on.'"
Talking to the Daily Star, he went on to say that, having produced their album 'We Started Nothing' himself, the results aren't quite as professional as they might have been, had they got a man in to do the job. "What it takes some bands to do in six months we can do in a week. I'm not technically trained so I was doing everything wrong. I was sticking cheap microphones on the floor to record my drums".