Voice of the Beehive

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Voice of the Beehive are an Anglo-American college radio/alternative band, formed in London in 1986 by Californian sisters Tracey Bryn and Melissa Brooke Belland, daughters of Four Preps singer Bruce Belland.

When the sisters first sang together they called themselves the Beehive Girls, because of their beehive hairstyles. Their initial success came with the 1988 album Let It Bee, on which they recruited former members from ska band Madness to play bass and drums. The album was popular on college radio stations, and the success was largely due to their brightly-coloured image and shot-along songs that was an antidote to the doom and gloom college rock scene. Their biggest commercial success came with the singles, "Don't Call Me Baby" and "Monsters and Angels". In 1994 the other members left the band. The sisters decided to continue, recording the album Sex and Misery. The album did not sell well in the UK, and early success in the USA was poorly capitalised on. In late 1996 their record company refused to extend their contract, and the girls disappeared from the music industry, although they re-formed to play three live dates with The Wonder Stuff in 2003.

[edit] Band members

• Tracey Bryn - guitar and vocals - (born on 17 May 1962, in Encino, California)
• Melissa Brooke Belland - vocals - (born on 17 February 1966, in Los Angeles, California)
• Mike Jones - guitar
• Mark Bedford - bass until 1987 (also a member of Madness)
• Martin Brett - bass
• Daniel Woodgate - drums (also a member of Madness)

[edit] Discography

[edit] Original albums

• Let it Bee (June, 1988)
  1. Beat Of Love
  2. Sorrow Floats
  3. Don't Call Me Baby
  4. Man In The Moon
  5. What You Have Is Enough
  6. Oh Love
  7. I Walk The Earth
  8. Trust Me
  9. I Say Nothing
  10. There's A Barbarian In The Back Of My Car
  11. Just A City

• Honey Lingers (June, 1991)
  1. Monsters and Angels
  2. Adonis Blue
  3. I Think I Love You
  4. Look At Me
  5. Beauty To My Eyes
  6. Just Like You
  7. Little Gods
  8. I'm Shooting Cupid
  9. Say It
  10. Perfect Place

• Sex & Misery (1996)
  1. Scary Kisses
  2. New Day
  3. Angel Come Down
  4. Moon of Dust
  5. I'm Still In Love
  6. Love Locked Inside
  7. Playing House
  8. Heavenly
  9. Blue In Paradise
  10. So Hard
  11. Moonblind

[edit] Compilations

• A Portrait (1991) (Canadian release)

• Best Of (1997) (UK only release)
  1. Don't Call Me Baby
  2. Monsters and Angels
  3. I Think I Love You
  4. I Say Nothing
  5. I Walk The Earth
  6. Perfect Place
  7. Man In The Moon
  8. Sorrow Floats
  9. Beat Of Love
  10. Adonis Blue
  11. Look At Me
  12. Just Like You
  13. What You Have Is Enough
  14. Say It
  15. Oh Love
  16. Beauty To My Eyes
  17. Trust Me
  18. There's A Barbarian In The Back Of My Car

[edit] Singles

• Just A City (1987)
• I Walk The Earth (1988)
• Don't Call Me Baby (1988)
• I Say Nothing (1988)
• I Walk The Earth (1988)
• Man In The Moon (1988)
• Beat of Love (1989)
• Monsters and Angels (1991)
• I Think I Love You (1991)
• Perfect Place (1991)
• Angel Come Down (1995)
• Scary Kisses (1996)
• Heavenly (1996)
• So Hard (1996)

[edit] Backing vocals

• Voice of the Beehive provided harmonies on Bill Drummond's album The Man (1986)

[edit] References

• Voice of the Beehive official site.

[edit] External links

• Voice of the Beehive Lyrics
• Voice of the Beehive Myspace Page