Release Date: Dec 9, 2022
Discs: 2
An expanded double CD edition featuring previously unreleased tracks, live versions and demos. Featuring new liner notes by the band’s very own Tracey Belland.
In the mid 80s, armed with a only a suitcase of songs, Californian sisters Tracey Bryn and Melissa Brooke Belland escaped the American music industry in search of the vibrant British indie scene, finding recently split Madness band member Daniel ‘Woody’ Woodgate, who together with guitarist Mike Jones and bassist Martin Brett would form ‘the Beehive Boys’.
The powerful live chops of the Beehive Boys, combined with the harmonies, energy and stage presence of Tracey and Melissa, made Voice of the Beehive indie darlings and one of the hottest live acts on the London scene.
Signing with London Records, they recorded ‘Let It Bee’, its sunny exterior of sparkling indie guitars, energetic rhythms matched with lyrics and melodies that revealed both hope and an occasionally cutting cynicism.
On its release ‘Let It Bee’ was a UK Top 15 album, its singles ‘I Say Nothing’, ‘I Walk The Earth’ & ‘Don’t Call Me Baby’ all chart hits and radio favourites. Re-issued for the first time since its initial release, all orders of the vinyl edition come with a print signed by all members of the band. The expanded double CD version features ‘Cartoon City’, a band favourite recently uncovered and remastered from the London Records archives.
CD1
1. The 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 City
12. 7 Shocks
13. D'yer Maker
14. I Walk The Earth
15. Independence Day
16. Any Day Of The Week
17. I Walk The Earth (Original Version)
18. This Weak
19. Jesus…
20. No Green Blues
21. Jump This Way
22. Goodbye Tonight
CD2
1. Cartoon City
2. Tattoo Song
3. Everything I Had
4. In The Flesh
5. No Green Blues (BBC Session)
6. Jump This Way (BBC Session)
7. Independence Day (BBC Session)
8. Jesus (BBC Session)
9. Five Feet High And Risin' n (Appearing As Tracey And Melissa Beehive)
10. Oh Love (Alternate Take)
11. I Say Nothing (Demo Version)
12. Beat Of Love (Demo Version)
13. 7 Shocks (Live)
14. There's A Barbarian In The Back Of My Car (Live)
15. I Say Nothing (Live)
16. Just A City (Live)
17. Trust Me (Live)
18. When You Don't Have Your Gun (Live at ULU)
