Hey it's Super Tuesday

The most difficult thing for any showbiz reporter is making sure you are at all the gigs but then up early enough to report on them!

After a pretty late night spying on the cast of Strictly Come Dancing Live in some of Manchester's trendiest haunts it was up at 4am and into Channel M to be on air and looking at least half decent for 6.30It's difficult to imagine while driving into the City as the streets are bare at 5am that in a matter of hours the roads will be in chaos it's like placing a motorway through the set of last of the Summer Wine not that I'm suggesting Deansgate is quite that green ...

The first person to greet me as I walked into Urbis was a whistling Director, Joe, how can you feel tired or down with a whistle and smile like that! I'm in the studio there's no time to be tired we've got to wake up Manchester and everyone wants to know what the celebs are up to.

This morning there was a nice diet of a review of The Ting Tings NME Tour gig in Manchester on Sunday.

The Ting Tings are Jules and Katie. I've known these guys for years, Jules used to work on production for TKO (Total Knock Out) the girlband that Katie was once in. I can remember the days of TKO they were exciting we had three young girls who had an appetite to make it big, I was their MC (I suppose) a job that took me all over the U.K. and led me to work with some big pop acts at that time namely Steps and 5ive.Sadly the TKO thing didn't quite work out as everyone had hoped, it was time for Katie to move on.

She teamed up with Jules and they formed a band called Dear Eskiimo. My fave Dear Eskiimo song was Jo.

Fast forward a few years Jules and Katie are now The Ting Tings and they are going from strength to strength with National Airplay on Radio 1, a TV appearance with Jools Holland and Katie achieving an ambition of a lifetime performing at Glastonbury. Their new single Great DJ is out on 3rd March, do go and buy it because these guys really do deserve to be successful they've worked hard for years.

Rowetta of X Factor fame will be in her hometown of Manchester on Friday night but this time dressed as a nun... She's in a theatrical performance called 'The Music of Sister Act' you know you'll be dancing in the aisles.

If you fancy a night out this week don't miss Simian Mobile Disco at The Roadhouse on Thursday and Babyshambles at The Apollo on Sunday.

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