Ting Tings,Career

Ting Tings Career
Katie White started her music career in a girl group punk trio TKO – short for Technical Knock Out –with two friends from Lowton school, Marion Grethe Seaman and Emma Lally. The band had some success and supported Steps and Atomic Kitten. In March 2001, while White was at the University of Leeds, songwriter Jules De Martino wrote four songs for TKO. While De Martino was in Manchester a few months later, the pair bumped into each other and discovered they had a mutual love of Portishead. De Martino relocated to Manchester, based at the alternative musician-commune the Islington Mill in Salford. The pair and a friend went on to form the Portishead-influenced trio Dear Eskiimo who were signed to Mercury Records. However, due to a change of directors and managers, the management style of the record label caused them to split.The experience left White and De Martino with a distrust of the music industry.