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‘We never dreamed one song would take us round the world six times’: the Ting Tings on That’s Not My Name

‘We went halves on the cost of 500 records and illegally put them on the shelves of a music shop in Manchester. Mark Radcliffe played it and said, “Strike a light!”’Katie and I were playing loads of gigs in Manchester in a band called Dear Eskiimo. We’d got a deal with Mercury. They had committed to an album, but then suddenly changed all their top people and we got dumped. I remember thinking: “Bastards.” No one would answer the phone to us. We felt invisible and rejected. That’s what the lyrics to That’s Not My Name are all about: “They call me Stacey / They call me Her / They call me Jane / That’s not my name.” Continue reading...


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