Voice of the Beehive / Honey Lingers reissue

Voice of the Beehive’s second album, Honey Lingers, will be reissued and expanded in April.

The band’s 1991 long-player was released three years after their debut (Let It Bee) and saw them build further on their signature mix of jangly guitars and melodic pop hooks. It was another top 20 success, delivering three top 40 UK singles including the #17 hit ‘Monsters and Angels’ and the Don Was-produced cover of The Partridge Family hit ‘I Think I Love You’.

“I played Honey Lingers the other day for the first time in years and I have to admit that not only do I love it, but I prefer it to Let It Bee…” writes vocalist Tracey Bryn in the album’s sleeve notes.”To me, it’s like a psychotic melodic patchwork of every single emotion we were having… It spits, cries, shags, and dances and that was what we felt like we were doing as we toured, did television, press and general promotion all over the globe.”

Honey Lingers is reissued and remastered on pink vinyl and as an expanded 2CD deluxe edition, with the latter uncovering a host of previously unheard alternate versions, single B-sides (some new to CD) and live tracks taken from their show at Kentish Town and Country Club (which was recorded for Radio One).

The 2CD version also includes Voice Of The Beehive’s version of The Rolling Stones’ ‘Gimme Shelter’, recorded with Jimmy Somerville in 1993 for an EP raising funds for the ‘Putting Our House in Order’ homeless initiative. In total, the double CD edition expands the original album’s 10 tracks to an impressive 39, with 19 of the 29 bonus tracks previously unreleased.

Honey Lingers is released on 4 April 2025 via London Records. The band’s official shop is offering both 2CD deluxe and pink vinyl with an additional bonus CD featuring five tracks unavailable elsewhere, including a demo of ‘Monsters and Angels’.

Official shop highlights

• Honey Lingers 2CD deluxe with bonus 5-track CD (£13.99)
• Honey Lingers pink vinyl LP with bonus 5-track CD (£24.99)

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Voice of the Beehive

Honey Lingers 2CD deluxe

Shop Price gbp Stock Amazon uk   16.99 Pre-Order Official Artist Store   13.99 with bonus 5-track CD

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Tracklisting

Honey Lingers Voice of the Beehive /

• 2CD deluxe
  • CD 1
    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 
    11. Waitress
    12. Only If You Want To
    13. Pocketsize
    14. Something About God
    15. Shine Away
    16. Dumb Club (Alternative Version) **
    17. I Think I Love You (Don Was Guilty Pleasure Mix)
    18. Perfect Place (7” Version)
    19. Gimme Shelter (with Jimmy Somerville)
    20. Say It (Acoustic Version) **
    21. I’m Shooting Cupid (Acoustic Version) **
    22. Perfect Place (Acoustic Version) **

    **Previously unreleased

  • CD 2
    1. Monsters And Angels (Alternative Version) **
    2. I Think I Love You (Original Version 7” Remix) **
    3. Look At Me (Original Remix) **
    4. Just Like You (Phil Harding 7” Version) **
    5. Little Gods (Spector Christmas Version) **
    6. Perfect Place (Piano Version) **
    7. Monsters And Angels (12” Version) **
    8. I Think I Love You (Orgy Mix) 
    9. Perfect Place (Pat Collier Version) **
    10. I Think I Love You (Don Was 1st Mix) **
    11. VB – Goddess Of Love (Vocal Mix) **
    12. I’m Shooting Cupid (Live) **
    13. Little Gods (Live) **
    14. Monsters And Angels (Live) ** 
    15. Only If You Want To (Live) **
    16. Adonis Blue (Live) **
    17. Sit Down (Live)

    **Previously unreleased

• Pink Vinyl LP

  • Side A

    1. Monsters And Angels
    2. Adonis Blue
    3. I Think I Love You
    4. Look At Me
    5. Beauty To My Eyes

    Side B

    1. Just Like You
    2. Little Gods
    3. I’m Shooting Cupid
    4. Say It
    5. Perfect Place