Thebandwithnoname
| thebandwithnoname | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | tbwnn |
| Origin | Manchester, UK |
| Genres | Christian hip hop, Christian EDM, Christian rock, Christian metal, nu metal, grime, crunk rock |
| Years active | 2002 - 2010 |
| Labels | ICC, Spring Harvest |
| Associated acts | World Wide Message Tribe, Ad-Apt, LZ7, TBC |
| Past members | Chip Kendall (Chip K) Leon Henderson (QKid) David Strafford (Straff) Jonathan Moore (J) Adam Brown (Presha) Bobby Joel Stearns (The Bobsta) James Adams (Jimmy) |
thebandwithnoname (referred to as "TBWNN" by fans) were a Christian band who were launched by Innervation Trust in March 2002, as their flagship band, alongside girl band TBC. TBWNN hosted their final gig at the Stockport Plaza on Saturday 4 September 2010 and have since disbanded.
Innervation Trust is a Christian charity that recruits and resources school teams, 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.
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 had already released a single ("Take Up the Tempo", which would also appear on their first album The Blitz), and performed a high-profile launch concert at Soul Survivor 2002 under the name "thebandwithnoname". Fan response was in favour of the name being retained.
thebandwithnoname's debut album The Blitz, produced by Zarc Porter, was released almost as soon as the band's lineup was finalised. thebandwithnoname were then a three-piece group, the members being Adam Brown (known as Presha while with thebandwithnoname; now goes by Ad-apt); Bobby Joel Stearns (known as The Bobsta) and Chip Kendall (known in thebandwithnoname as chipK). The Blitz Tour took place in 2002/2003, a 60-date tour to promote this album, and also featured Doug Walker (Manchester-based singer/songwriter) as a support act. Bobby Joel Stearns was later one-third of electrosoul outfit Unklejam. Adam Brown features on the first single release of another one of Innervation's project's, Bebe Vox. They released, a single, "Take Up the Tempo", to promote the album.
Schizophrenix was the band's second album. Released on 15 December 2003, it launched the band further into the Christian music scene. The album received very positive reviews. However, Bobby Stearns, and later Adam Brown, left the group shortly after the release of Schizophrenix to pursue individual careers. A long period of reduced activity followed for the band, with Zulu Yengwa (a rapper) and Joshua Philip Oluwadare Morohumobo Kofi Alamu (a singer known simply as "Josh" whilst appearing with thebandwithnoname) occasionally featuring alongside the only remaining original member of the group, chipK. For some time Innervation failed to recruit any new members for the group. During this time, thebandwithnoname added dancers, Tina Mann and Helen Kendall (chipK's wife) and went on a two and a half month tour of the USA. The tour was organized by Tom Miyashiro of Faith 2 Faith Ministries International, who by the end of the tour helped recruit and send American musicianaries to the UK to work in Innervation's bands. Tom released a book in 2006 entitled, "Schizophrenic" as a compliment to the Schizophrenix album.
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