BROOKLYN, New York ��"It looks like there might be thunder," Ting Tings frontwoman Katie White�said, standing at the edge of McCarren Park Pool. "It would be good � kind of dramatic if there's lightning. And it might fill the pool up!"
There was no total pool � but on that point was slew of thunder, lightning and rain throughout the afternoon at the Jelly NYC Pool Party. Regardless, Sunday's free concert was packed to�capacity ��the line to get in stretched around the block and hundreds were turned away�from�the locale, even after waiting for as long as�three hours in the rain. But that didn't�stop the�Ting Tings�from playing punchy, poppy hits from their debut LP, We Started Nothing, like�"Shut Up and Let Me Go,"�"Great DJ" and�"That's Not My Name" for lyric-chanting fans.
A storybook success�story, (contain out our literal�storybook taradiddle of their journey from "FNMTV"), the British duo�give the Internet and TV a lot of course credit for their #1 album in the U.K.�and growing fanbase in the U.S.
"With stuff like MySpace your music travels so cursorily," White said.�"If somebody likes it they tell their friend. It's a good thing, though, that people actually want to�see�us."
Of trend, the group's popularity owes more than a fiddling to the iPod ad that features them. "We've been playing for, wish, three or four days now here and it's all sold out," said the early half of the Ting Tings, Jules De Martino. "And I guess that's because the ad has been around and it got people to check us out."
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While their single�"Shut Up and Let Me Go" has become a hit and is among the many contenders for a VMA nomination for Best Pop Video, White thinks other songs on their record album are even better.
"We've got just naturally popular songs," he said.�"We haven't regular unleashed our best songs on them�yet, so I can't wait!"
The Ting Tings will proceed their busybodied tour schedule, but they are likewise looking onward to acquiring back into the studio apartment, especially for a new collaboration in the works with rapper Dizzee Rascal.
"He did a�cover of 1 of our tracks on the wireless in the U.K. and then we met him at [the Glastonbury festival] and we talked most it,"�De Martino said.�"We're just looking for some space so we can bugger off into the studio and bang something out."
The Ting Tings say they're hoping to celluloid their following music video in the States after their tour. In the meantime, they're enjoying their growing U.S. popularity.
"People are just starting to reveal us at such a fast charge per unit here," De Martino said. "It's a lovely
