The Ting Tings @ Palais Royal, Paris April 25 2012 6:00 pm

The Ting Tings @ Palais Royal, Paris April 25 2012 6:00 pm
for Rock Corps

Another free show in Paris ,on the first come first serve basis, this time just sandwiched between the Conseil d'Etat & the Louvre Museum on Place du Palais Royal. 1500 capacity.
it's not sold out as it's oudoor and the weathear has been awful all day with lots of wind and showers. Luckily it's dry when The Ting Tings are getting on the tiny stage.
This gig is part of the Rock Corps thing, when you volunteer for some work you get a free ticket for a rock concert.
We've seen them a few times recently @ Cigale in March, @ L'Album de la Semaine in January and @ Caroussel du Louvre last december where they premiered the new album.

I guess they're playing the same setlist as they ended the set with the same routine: an electro song then their two hits "Shut up & le me go" & "That's not my name" but with had something extra as there were 3 other stages facing the main stage with a Gospel Choir of black female girls all dressed up with XVIII century clothes and wigs on the first one, some dancers on the second one (see picture below) and a extra guitar player dressed up as an astronaut on the 3rd stage.
All that added an extra flavour to the electro-bluesy pop-rock of the Ting Tings.
Cool 30 min set.

The Ting Tings @ La Cigale, Paris March 09 2012

The Ting Tings @ La Cigale, Paris March 09 2012

Well, another show in Paris from The Ting Tings in just a few months, we saw them playing a private show for Deezer @ Caroussel du Louvre in December last year and they came back @ Fleche d'Or in January.
Opening is french dance-electro band We are enfant terrible, not our cup of tea but that was alright.
Then The Ting Tings for an hour long set (9:11 /10:15 pm).
They started the set with a very cool song before getting everyone dancing on the dancefloor of la Cigale which is like a trampoline.
The band is much more rock on stage than on records and they always deliver a good show even though we're not too fan when they're more electro.
The blonde girl is making the show and they' re much more fun on stage than The Kills.
Good gig but a bit short, 65 min that's not enough when you have 2 albums.

setlist

"Shut up & let me go"


also tonight :
Raphael Saadiq @ Olympia (sold out)

The Ting Tings @ L'Album de la Semaine, Paris jan 17 2012

The Ting Tings @ L'Album de la Semaine, Paris Jan 17 2012

setlist

The Ting Tings are back in Paris, a month after playing a private show for Deezer @ Caroussel du Louvre, to promote their new album "Sounds from nowheresville" to be out at the end of February.
In front of a selected audience of less than 150 people The Ting Tings are playing songs from the new album a mix of bluesy rock electro hip-hop.
Still playing as a duet with lots of pre-recorded tapes, the girl is doing the show singing-jumping & dancing .
Lively short set, not too sure about their completely electro song "Hands" that should sound perfect in a disco but not on a stage, well not for us a s we hate that electro shit.
The band ended their short set with 2 hits from the first album.
Very good set.

Check our review of their private show @ Caroussel du louvre on Dec 08 2011

The Ting Tings are playing a sold-out show tonight (Jan 18) at the Fleche d'Or