“The Ting Tings are a blindingly brilliant, spanking new electro duo” – The Metro, Manchester

The Ting Tings, imagine The White Stripes reversed with a synthesiser and massive bass drum play effortlessly cool synth-pop with Peaches style vocals & Tom Tom Club haunts.

‘That’s not my name’ is a catchy yet clever synth-pop ditty that’ll get stuck somewhere in the back of your head and have you singing ‘they call me Jane’ under your breath hours later.

Hearing ‘Great DJ’ is like coming up for the first time in a really good club. White’s effortlessly sexy voice over an additively edgy loop makes for an electro-disco hit.

Their limited 7-inch debut AA single ‘That’s Not My Name’ / Great DJ is out on Switchflicker may 28th

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Valerie are Jo Lean – Vox, Vicky Tse – Guitar, and the infamous Elvis on drums. The band met through Manchester club night “Poptastic” and quickly bonded over shared passions – namely larger, dancing, Sleater – Kinney, John Waters, getting dirty and causing trouble.

Disinterested in the local music scene and excited by bands filtering over from the U.S…Our three heroes decide to form Valerie. Life as they knew it would never be the same again. The band named themselves after Valerie Solanas, the would be assassin of Andy Warhol and author of the feminist S.C.U.M Manifesto. Solanas is seen as a crackpot by many, as are Jo, Vix and Elvis, but the band were inspired by the way she acted upon her beliefs no matter how extreme and with little support.

Valerie’s sound is very much a product of their inspirations – punk, riot girl, lo fi, no fi, d.i.y, pop and lately even signs of a naive hip hop.

Valeries prime motive has always been to entertain, rather than win the Mercury Music Prize – although it’s reportedly in the bag after the Switchflicker single. Interaction with the audience is a vital part of Valerie – the banter is just as important as the songs and Heat magazine is their bible.

Valerie are trouble, but they’re comedy core trouble. Love ‘em. Hate ‘em. Beware.
Let the games begin……….

“Can’t play. Won’t play. They’re going to be massive anyway”
Diddie Davenport on Valerie in the Manchester Evening News even before they all snogged him!

Their new track, korgatron is released on Sealed with a Loving Flick compilation

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Bee and Cue , a live performance piece with Mildmanjan involving construction work , unique artefacts and live music. Builder Bee transforms or recycles a household object into a box – conveniently sized to house a CD.

Musician Cue takes the sounds of this constucting and transforms or recycles them into music and simultaneously produces a CD . At the end of the two simultaneous performances , a unique CD is sold or auctioned in a unique box ; the box bearing witness to it’s own making and the CD bringing to life the formative moments of transformation and the miracle of recycling.

Mobile Symphony: Ten Nokia mobiles play a specially composed score conducted by the artist’s text finger. Part of Futuresonic electronic music festival.

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