Dreams Never DieThe Beginning of TBIRE7Prologue Once upon a time, there were 7 teens from Britain. They were Brianna Martinez, Tina Barrett, Paul Cattermole, Joanna O’Meara, Edward Tisdale, Taylor Richardson, and Vince Evans. They all lived ordinary lives, but dreamed of being popstars.
Then one day, they audition for Search for TBIRE7: The British Timbiriche7. Timbiriche7 was a late 90s/early 2000s spin-off of 80s Mexican pop band Timbiriche. With the help of the producers, these 7 people became TBIRE7.
Everything seemed to go right, but British pop phenomenon RBL and their fans weren’t taking this lightly. Then on March 24, 2008, Brianna left for a solo career: TBIRE7 became TBIRE.
TBIRE went on to do concerts in Britain and Ireland, record a song for a soap opera, guest star in a soap opera, launch a franchise that had a clothing line, bed line, and a MP3 player, and write songs for their up-coming second CD.
Things looked hopeful when 2009 started. Even a few fans started
Operation: TBIRE Domination 2009. But everything was frighteningly quiet. Then came Thursday, May 28, 2009. TBIRE’s dream came crashing down immediately. They split up after reaching ‘Timbiriche7’ status in two years, which was big but not RBL-big.
But a few weeks later, ex-TBIRE7 members, Jo (Joanna), Paul, and Tina, decided to form a new band. One that’ll finish the work TBIRE7 started. They re-signed with 19 Management, and hired a new manager, Simon Fuller. Their former managers were Francesca and Felicity.
After it was all said and done, four new people joined this new band: Rachel Stevens, Jonathan Lee, Hannah Spearett, and Bradley McIntosh. The new band was called S Club 7, a band modeled after Timbiriche7 and TBIRE7. The dream was revived, by becoming a success again.
That’s just how you see this story, like a fairy tale, but it’s true. We worked hard to achieve this dream and become a success.
The first time was good enough to have a ton of fans from Britain, Western Europe, USA, and a small following in Latin America. But not enough to survive RBL. The second time was much better, with greater success in Britain, all of Europe, North America, Latin America, and even Japan.
As TBIRE, we struggled under the circumstances of criticism, RBL, and internal hostilities. As S Club 7, we still had criticism and some internal hostilities, but we had no rival seeing that RBL split up in 2008 and Swedish emo-pop band EmoTeens flopped their third single from their third CD.
It may seem like Britain and Europe got sick of homegrown teen pop acts when TBIRE split up, but in the Americas, they’re crazy for that stuff when S Club 7 came out.
TBIRE lost a fight to ‘RBL-Mania’, S Club 7 won a revolution. Me, Paul, and Tina never gave up fighting for our dreams. We may have struggled to survive in TBIRE, but we came sweeping through hard with S Club 7.
We will not give up our dreams and our talent! We’ll keep fighting for our rights to exist as a pop band, whether it’s TBIRE or S Club 7! We’re revolutionists. We’re S Club 7-The British Revolution! OUR DREAMS WILL NEVER DIE!
Here’s the real story on TBIRE7/S Club 7.