History of The TCB Group

 

Set up In January 2005, following a very successful 26 year career with the Zomba Group, where he was a founding Director, Steven Howard set up The TCB Group, an artist management and entertainment company. The company specializes in offering a very personal hands-on approach to artist management, as well as being at the forefront of creating and developing content for it’s artists as well as other artists.

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Artist's represented include, British icons Lulu and Darcey Bussell. Other artists who have benefited from a relationship with TCB include rock legend Bryan Ferry and his group Roxy Music, British singer-songwriter Gabrielle, multi-million selling pop group Steps and street dance group Diversity, after they won 2009’s Britain’s Got Talent. Also represented from BGT were father and son novelty act, Stavros Flatley. Classical music artists represented include leading soprano Natasha Marsh, the twice platinum female quartet All Angels, Classical BRIT winners Blake and Welsh brothers Richard & Adam

 

Early shows produced by the TCB Group included the highly successful touring musical starring Katherine Jenkins and DarceyBussell, called “Viva La Diva”and the two sold-out tours of “Here Come The Girls” starring Lulu, Anastacia, Chaka Khan and Heather Small.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As well as guiding the above artists with their careers, on both creative and business matters, the TCB Group worked with some of them with the book publishing trade creating, promoting and marketing titles such Darcey Bussell’s multi best-selling series “Magic Ballerina” (published in over 40 countries), Lulu’s “Secrets of Looking Good”, and the ever-popular Stavros Flatley’s “It’s All Greek To Me”.  

 

As well as creating and producing touring live shows, the TCB Group worked on creating one off events around the world for numerous high-profile luxury brands including Audi, Mont Blanc, Debenham, Mandarin Oriental,Coutts, The Mail On Sunday and fashion brands Burberry, Armani, Mulberry, Hermes and Marks & Spencer

 

Other content created either through consultancy arrangements and directly on behalf of it’s clients were numerous cover mount CD and DVD campaigns for The Mail On Sunday (Darcey Bussell’s Pilates For Life, The Greatest Hits Of Roxy Music, a Christmas Choir compilation, all being distributed to over 10 million homes. In 2005, the company was also instrumental in creating a corporate social responsibility and fund-raising campaign for the Malmaison hotel group. It was a music-focused campaign for “Bottletop”, a UK charity supporting sexual health education initiatives. The campaign compromised of a series of CDs and music related accessories, such as limited edition hand-crafted bottletop radios.

 

Other fund-raising initiatives instigated and created by Steven Howard resulting in raising over £1million for children’s charities were the hugely successful celebrity-endorsed auctions: “Put Yourself In My Shoes”, “Hits Under The Hammer”, “Designs of The Times” and “Lots Of Ink!” All of these utilised the company’s celebrity contacts. Details of these events are below.

 

Sister company TCB Music Publishing, continued to expand with successful hit copyrights written by contemporary pop songwriters. These songs featured on the pop charts, as well as included TV theme music used for Jamie Oliver’s cookery programmes, and music used by FIFA for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. This music was licensed and performed in over 150 countries.

 

In 2011 The TCB Group set up a joint venture record label with EMI. The two releases were brand new recordings performed by British legendary icons Twiggy and the legendary Sir Bruce Forsyth. 

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In more recent times, the company has conceived and produced some of the most successful "song & dance" touring shows. Details of these can be found elsewhere on this site.

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