The Ting Tings deleted album for clean break
The Ting Tings The 'Hang it Up' duo went to Berlin for their first attempt at writing their second album, but were unsatisfied with the results and ensured they will never be heard by deleting them before moving to Spain and starting over again fresh.
Singer and guitarist Katie White exclusively told BANG Showbiz: "It was quite a tough decision, but not creatively. We're quite brutal with our songs anyway. Even if it's an idea and someone goes 'that's amazing,' we'll be like, 'no I don't like it, delete,' and literally wipe it off.
"I think there was just a lot of pressure, because the label really liked the stuff and could see it tying in with the s**t euro-pop thing at the time, and we were like, 'nah'.
"We actually deleted the tracks from Berlin, and within a couple of weeks we totally knew we'd done the right thing."
Multi-instrumentalist Jules De Martino added the only track which contains any ideas from their original sessions is 'Guggenheim'.
He explained: "We did a version of Guggenheim while we were in Berlin, and lyrically and the idea of the song was amazing, the but recording and the attitude and the performance sucked for us, but everybody thought it was a smash.
"So we deleted it, and it was gone, and I think two or three months later in Ibiza, rehearsing and recording and were jamming it live and then ended up recording it there, its' not anything to do with the original recording, but some ideas we had came floating back."
'Sounds from Nowheresville' is released on February 27.
