TBC (band)
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TBC are a Christian
girl band who were launched by Innervation Trust in 2004, as a "flagship" girl band alongside their brother band Thebandwithnoname
. Innervation Trust is a Christian charity
that exists to recruit and resource schools teams, dubbed "Collectives", each dedicated to a major city in the UK. Innervation Trust is the product of Mark Pennells and Zarc Porter, a songwriter/producer partnership also credited with writing most of the music for, and co-founding, the World Wide Message Tribe
. After 7 years of promoting the Collective bands throughout every region of the UK, they have been replaced by new project Pop Connection. Working with Andy Silver, Pop Connection will spend a week teaching children at a primary school a number of songs (usually 7) as a choir and the next week will perform these songs in their local church or activity hall/centre with an audience. They also have a recording day to make their very own pop album.
and with the help of around 80% of the votes, they decided to keep band name TBC in other words "Touring Band Collective". Shortly after the Collective work had ended, the girls refer to TBC as "To Be Continued", as to whatever the situation concerning new band members, the girls will try to continue doing work for God.
. Giving the girls high hopes for the future and catching something different in the Christian music market. This album had high energy pop, with an r'n'b influence throughout most of the tracks, including the rocky track, "Do You Know What It's Like?" and a contrast to a more WWMT
past sound of "When I Get To Heaven". These two songs both had good reviews and also had music videos.
Sugababes
and the early Girls Aloud
have been linked with this sound.
The music of TBC became well known at Spring Harvest
, popular Christian music festival and New Wine.
Also expect some vocals by now solo artist/author, Shell Perris, in TBC hoody feature, "Loved".
, S Club Juniors, or a slightly more party style Girls Aloud
.
All went smoothly as they launched their new album Talk Of The Town at the Manchester Apollo. The crowd was a wide age range. This seemed like a popular new audience for the all new style TBC. The performance included special guests, Thebandwithnoname and support from the "Pop Connection Touring Choir".
The title track "Talk Of The Town" alongside "Faithful", "Nobody Loves Me Like You Do" and "One Summer's Day" have a genre similar to The Beatles
and rock chick musical Grease
. Where as their other song, with music video, "We'll Keep On Dancing", was a contrast in pop, sounding similar to the likes of "Saturday Night Fever
".
Popular with the older TBC audience is the only r'n'b flavoured track "I Will Always Love You". Production crafted by producers in work with the Sugababes
and resembling Shayne Ward
.
Also ending the Talk of the Town album with an almost-lullaby resemblance gives you "Goodnight" featuring the Pop Connection touring Choir. The title song "Talk of the Town" received the most airplay.
They also visit primary schools, which has been popular.
The TBC girls toured South Africa successfully and also did an American tour in January 2009 visiting primary schools, taking lessons, dance work shops and church events.
The TBC girls did an album launch in Connecticut, USA and received positive feedback from all types of faith.
The girls visited many states on the east coast of the USA.
They are looking into heading back to the USA at some point over this next year.
TBC were then a three girl band and have been searching for a new member.
They carried on touring at such events, Spring Harvest, QuobFest, and New Wine music festivals. Also continuing to do primary school work.
In October 2009, Megan Howard left the group but continued with the bands main gigs until they find someone else.
Since working with primary school, the TBC girls and their team at Innervation have understood the pop music that young children are listening to and are heading towards the sounds of the new dance hip/pop sound.
Christian
A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...
girl band who were launched by Innervation Trust in 2004, as a "flagship" girl band alongside their brother band Thebandwithnoname
Thebandwithnoname
thebandwithnoname were a Christian band who were launched by Innervation Trust in March 2002, as a "flagship" band. Alongside sister band to TBWNN, girl band TBC. Innervation Trust is a Christian charity that exists to recruit and resource schools teams, dubbed "Collectives", each dedicated to a...
. Innervation Trust is a Christian charity
Charitable organization
A charitable organization is a type of non-profit organization . It differs from other types of NPOs in that it centers on philanthropic goals A charitable organization is a type of non-profit organization (NPO). It differs from other types of NPOs in that it centers on philanthropic goals A...
that exists to recruit and resource schools teams, dubbed "Collectives", each dedicated to a major city in the UK. Innervation Trust is the product of Mark Pennells and Zarc Porter, a songwriter/producer partnership also credited with writing most of the music for, and co-founding, the World Wide Message Tribe
World Wide Message Tribe
The Tribe, formerly the World Wide Message Tribe , were a British Christian dance band. Their aim was to "to communicate the gospel to young people in Greater Manchester"...
. After 7 years of promoting the Collective bands throughout every region of the UK, they have been replaced by new project Pop Connection. Working with Andy Silver, Pop Connection will spend a week teaching children at a primary school a number of songs (usually 7) as a choir and the next week will perform these songs in their local church or activity hall/centre with an audience. They also have a recording day to make their very own pop album.
Name
As an advertising device to raise the profile of the band at its launch, Innervation opened a competition for fans to give the band a name. Fans were invited to vote via the internet for a new name, and the most popular ones were placed in a shortlist from which fans could vote for their favourite. However, the band decided, that alongside brother band ThebandwithnonameThebandwithnoname
thebandwithnoname were a Christian band who were launched by Innervation Trust in March 2002, as a "flagship" band. Alongside sister band to TBWNN, girl band TBC. Innervation Trust is a Christian charity that exists to recruit and resource schools teams, dubbed "Collectives", each dedicated to a...
and with the help of around 80% of the votes, they decided to keep band name TBC in other words "Touring Band Collective". Shortly after the Collective work had ended, the girls refer to TBC as "To Be Continued", as to whatever the situation concerning new band members, the girls will try to continue doing work for God.
Debut album
TBC's debut album TBC, produced by Porter/Pennells, was released in 2005. TBC were then a four-piece group, the members being Shell Perris, Natalie Joy Potgieter, Liz Roberts-Parry and Laura Moseley. The TBC self-titled album sold more than expected, due to the girls touring so much. The album also received a 10/10 review from popular Christian radio station, Cross RhythmsCross Rhythms
Cross Rhythms is a Christian media organisation based in Stoke-on-Trent, England.-History:The roots of what was to become Cross Rhythms go back to two separate sources which merged in 1991. In 1983, broadcaster Chris Cole started a 30-minute weekly Christian music radio show on Plymouth Sound FM, a...
. Giving the girls high hopes for the future and catching something different in the Christian music market. This album had high energy pop, with an r'n'b influence throughout most of the tracks, including the rocky track, "Do You Know What It's Like?" and a contrast to a more WWMT
WWMT
WWMT is the CBS-affiliated television station for West Michigan licensed to Kalamazoo. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 8 from a transmitter on Chief Noonday Road/M-179, northwest of Yankee Springs Township, along the Barry and Allegan County line. The station can also...
past sound of "When I Get To Heaven". These two songs both had good reviews and also had music videos.
Sugababes
Sugababes
The Sugababes are an English pop girl group based in London, consisting of members Heidi Range, Amelle Berrabah and Jade Ewen. The Sugababes were formed in 1998 with founding members Siobhán Donaghy, Mutya Buena and Keisha Buchanan. Their debut album, One Touch, was released in 2000 under London...
and the early Girls Aloud
Girls Aloud
Girls Aloud are a British and Irish pop girl group based in London. They were created through the ITV1 talent show Popstars The Rivals in 2002. The group consists of Cheryl Cole , Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh. They are signed to Fascination Records, a Polydor...
have been linked with this sound.
The music of TBC became well known at Spring Harvest
Spring Harvest
Spring Harvest is an inter-denominational Christian conference and gathering in the United Kingdom. Its "Main Event" takes place annually at the Butlins resorts in Minehead and Skegness over the Easter school holiday period....
, popular Christian music festival and New Wine.
Also expect some vocals by now solo artist/author, Shell Perris, in TBC hoody feature, "Loved".
Interim Lineup
In 2006, the band announced a new lineup. Liz Roberts-Parry and Laura Mosely along with now Christian rock chick solo artist Shell Perris left the band. Natalie Joy Potgieter, a singer and dancer from Essex, remained along with three new members: Lucy-Jayne Wells, a dancer and singer from Tyrone - Atlanta, Georgia (USA); Megan Howard a singer and dancer from Essex; and Rachel Holmes a dancer, rapper and singer from Manchester. A new album was set to release with a tour leading up to an album launch at the Manchester Apollo. It was decided that TBC would change their image. From doing secondary school work to Primary school. This meant their style and genre of music was to change from the more cranky r'n'b to primary school pop, only in relation to past groups such as Steps, S Club 7S Club 7
S Club, formerly known as S Club 7, were a pop group created by former Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller, consisting of members Tina Barrett, Paul Cattermole, Jon Lee, Bradley McIntosh, de facto lead singer Jo O'Meara, Hannah Spearritt and Rachel Stevens. The group rose to fame by starring in their...
, S Club Juniors, or a slightly more party style Girls Aloud
Girls Aloud
Girls Aloud are a British and Irish pop girl group based in London. They were created through the ITV1 talent show Popstars The Rivals in 2002. The group consists of Cheryl Cole , Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh. They are signed to Fascination Records, a Polydor...
.
Talk Of The Town
Talk of the Town was the band's second album, and launched the band further into the Christian music scene. The album received very positive reviews, mostly towards the work in which the girls were doing. Natalie Joy Potgieter had cut her hair from long and red to short and blonde. People warmed to the new line-up.All went smoothly as they launched their new album Talk Of The Town at the Manchester Apollo. The crowd was a wide age range. This seemed like a popular new audience for the all new style TBC. The performance included special guests, Thebandwithnoname and support from the "Pop Connection Touring Choir".
The title track "Talk Of The Town" alongside "Faithful", "Nobody Loves Me Like You Do" and "One Summer's Day" have a genre similar to The Beatles
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
and rock chick musical Grease
Grease (musical)
Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The musical is named for the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as the greasers. The musical, set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School , follows ten working-class teenagers as they navigate the complexities of love,...
. Where as their other song, with music video, "We'll Keep On Dancing", was a contrast in pop, sounding similar to the likes of "Saturday Night Fever
Saturday Night Fever
Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 drama film directed by John Badham and starring: John Travolta as Tony Manero, an immature young man whose weekends are spent visiting a local Brooklyn discothèque; Karen Lynn Gorney as his dance partner and eventual friend; and Donna Pescow as Tony's former dance...
".
Popular with the older TBC audience is the only r'n'b flavoured track "I Will Always Love You". Production crafted by producers in work with the Sugababes
Sugababes
The Sugababes are an English pop girl group based in London, consisting of members Heidi Range, Amelle Berrabah and Jade Ewen. The Sugababes were formed in 1998 with founding members Siobhán Donaghy, Mutya Buena and Keisha Buchanan. Their debut album, One Touch, was released in 2000 under London...
and resembling Shayne Ward
Shayne Ward
Shayne Thomas Ward is an English pop singer who rose to fame as the winner of second series of The X Factor. He has sold over 3 million records worldwide and has had number one albums and singles in 9 countries.During The X Factor competition, Ward was mentored by manager Louis Walsh...
.
Also ending the Talk of the Town album with an almost-lullaby resemblance gives you "Goodnight" featuring the Pop Connection touring Choir. The title song "Talk of the Town" received the most airplay.
Touring
The girls have been touring up and down the UK since before and after their album launch.They also visit primary schools, which has been popular.
The TBC girls toured South Africa successfully and also did an American tour in January 2009 visiting primary schools, taking lessons, dance work shops and church events.
The TBC girls did an album launch in Connecticut, USA and received positive feedback from all types of faith.
The girls visited many states on the east coast of the USA.
They are looking into heading back to the USA at some point over this next year.
New lineup
In April 2009, after nearly 5 years of work in TBC/Innervation Trust, it was time for Natalie Joy Potgieter to leave the band in order to move to South Africa with her husband.TBC were then a three girl band and have been searching for a new member.
They carried on touring at such events, Spring Harvest, QuobFest, and New Wine music festivals. Also continuing to do primary school work.
In October 2009, Megan Howard left the group but continued with the bands main gigs until they find someone else.
New album
There has been rumours of a new album by TBC with a more up to date image.Since working with primary school, the TBC girls and their team at Innervation have understood the pop music that young children are listening to and are heading towards the sounds of the new dance hip/pop sound.
Trivia
- Chip K, artist from TBC brother band ThebandwithnonameThebandwithnonamethebandwithnoname were a Christian band who were launched by Innervation Trust in March 2002, as a "flagship" band. Alongside sister band to TBWNN, girl band TBC. Innervation Trust is a Christian charity that exists to recruit and resource schools teams, dubbed "Collectives", each dedicated to a...
appeared on The Weakest Link to raise funds for the Innervation Trust
External links
- tbc's official site
- tbc's official myspace site
- tbc's official twitter site ( the best way to keep a close eye on the girls and their travels.
- Innervation Trust's official site
- Thebandwithnoname's official site
- Interview with the band (most recent lineup)
- Interview with the band (original lineup) shortly before completion of "Schizophrenix"
- Interview with the band (original lineup) shortly after the release of "The Blitz"