TBC (band)
| TBC | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Manchester 
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| Genres |
Christian music Pop R'n'B Dance Electronica |
| Years active | 2004-present |
| Labels | ICC / Spring Harvest |
| Associated acts |
World Wide Message Tribe Thebandwithnoname Doug Walker UnkleJam |
| Website | www.tbcmusic.com |
| Members | Lucy-Jayne Wells Rachel Holmes Megan Howard Bethan Ellis |
| Past members | Natalie Joy Potgieter Shell Perris Liz Roberts-Parry Laura Moseley |
TBC (styled as 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 were replaced by the primary school project, Pop Connection. This has since been replaced by iSingPOP. iSingPOP works in primary schools and will spend a week teaching all the children 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 album.
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 Thebandwithnoname 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.
TBC's debut album TBC, produced by Zarc Porter, 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 Rhythms. 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".
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