NEWS UPDATE June 25, 2007: and the WINNER is...

...Missy Beehive!!! With a lot of help from Bees all over the world, Missy won the Yahoo small business prize. Here's a word from the fairy princess herself:

Wow - you all did it!!!!
Talk about a grass roots movement - you all voted in mass and helped me win over two large and established companies! Lets hear it for fairy day and friends!!!!! I can't begin to tell you all how excited I am about my new life which you gave me by clicking on the "Vote" for Missy button. Thanks.
Love & Luck, Missy

NEWS UPDATE June 14, 2007: VOTE FOR MISSY NOW AND OFTEN

Worker bees, unite! Everyone here in the hive is very excited for our beloved Melissa Belland, who was recently selected as a top five finalist by Yahoo! Search Marketing and Ivanka Trump for a contest honoring small businesses on the web. The grand prize winner picks up a $25,000 Yahoo Marketing prize, and Missy and her Made In Heaven By Missy fairy factory can use all the love & honey you can muster. Voters can place one vote per day, per Yahoo log-in, at the following Yahoo link: http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/ultimateconnection/index.php?finalist=3 . Be sure to watch the video there too. And please spread the word to your fellow bees, friends, family, MySpace friends, blog followers, and anywhere else you can think of. Voting wraps up June 24th, so vote now, and vote often. THANKS!!!

NEWS UPDATE December 3, 2005: iTunes AND MySpace

I just wanted to take this chance to tip folks off that all 3 Voice of the Beehive albums are now officially available on iTunes for download, either by individual song or full-length album. This is definitely good news, as all 3 albums have been out of print for quite some time, and "How can I get a copy of...?" questions are probably the most-often asked around here. So now iTunes is finally an option. Also, I wanted to officially provide a nod to the VOTB page on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/voiceofthebeehive. The page isn't maintained by the band, but it's run by Devin, a good friend of the band's, and he's very good about keeping us all updated on what folks are saying. So be sure to stop by, listen to a few Beehive tracks, and tell Devin hello.

NEWS UPDATE April 2, 2005: REUNION TOUR DVD & JOURNAL

My apologies go out to any fans who might have ordered the Reunion DVD and found that it wasn't playable on their machines. Jane, a good and longtime friend of the site, recently let us know that the DVD is encoded as Region 2-PAL, and likely won't play on machines outside of the U.K., unless they're coded to be region-free. I'm also not sure if we'll see another journal entry from Tracey. Tracey and I will be meeting up soon, so I'll see if I can nudge her into giving us a little more. Wish me luck!

NEW STUFF! August 17, 2004: REUNION TOUR DVD

Great news for those of you who missed the reunion tour last December, not to mention those who were lucky enough to catch it and just want a memento to remember the tour by. Secret Records is now accepting pre-orders (look under Forthcoming Releases in the right column) for a DVD that was shot while the tour was taking shape and in progress. The DVD will include candid backstage footage and interviews with the band, as well as the music they played onstage. The DVD's scheduled for release in November. Oh, and for those wondering where the hell Tracey's next tour diary entry is, I'm still waiting for her to send one. I'll get it up as soon as I hear from her. Until then, take care!

SITE UPDATE June 21, 2004: FINALLY! MORE TOUR DIARY

Yeah, so, a week or two turned into months. Sorry for the ridiculous lag between journal entries, but I'm finally posting PART 2 of Tracey's tour diary. I didn't want to post it until I got another one from Tracey, and Tracey just thought I'd lost interest and so stopped sending 'em. Maybe this'll get us up and running again. I've also updated a brief bit about the whereabouts of Mike after VOTB split up at the end of the third biography page.

SITE UPDATE February 22, 2004: TRACEY'S TOUR DIARY

My apologies to everyone who has been waiting for Tracey's TOUR DIARY. I've got the first entry up now, and hope to have a second one up within a week or two, and hopefully more will follow (depending on when Tracey sends them to me). Still, my thanks go to Tracey for keeping this.

SITE UPDATE December 13, 2003: TOUR PICS

Thanks to everybody out there who's written in to tell me about the reunion tour. The band's currently talking together about what the future holds, and if they decide on anything concrete, I'll definitely post that news here. Also, I'm planning on having a bit more to document the tour. Tracey kept a tour diary, and when I get my hands on that, I'll post it as soon as I can transcribe it. For now, we've received a load of great photos from the London Metro show and soundcheck from a good friend of the site, Simon Clapham, and you can find those HERE. Thanks, Simon! Also, Tracey has forwarded on a few killer photos of the band, at the bottom row. We hope you like 'em.

NEWS November 10, 2003: HAPPINESS IS TOY-SHAPED

Our favorite bassist-cum-guitarist, Brett Martini, has tipped us off that his current band Dollshouse has a new album available, called "Happiness Is Toy Shaped." The album will "officially" be released in January 2004, but you can lay your hands on a copy now from the band's website at www.dollshouseband.

NEWS June 1, 2003: WWW.VOICEOFTHEBEEHIVE.COM

In case you didn't notice, we're now at a new home: www.voiceofthebeehive.com. The best part, no more pop-up ads. In the future we're hoping to add some more content. Not sure what yet. Just give us a while to get settled in. Stay tuned for more.

Welcome to the new home of my redesigned Voice of the Beehive website. This new revision has been a long time in coming, and I thank everybody for their patience (especially Martin, Tracey and Melissa, who I've been promising a major update to for nearly a year). I apologize to anyone who has e-mailed me who I didn't get back to. If you'd like to try again, e-mail me at robert@voiceofthebeehive.com and I'll do my best to send a prompt reply.

With this new version, the look and layout has obviously changed. Much of what was here before has been rescanned, so a lot of the pictures are cleaner and nicer looking. The discography has seen a few corrections, as have the biography pages. I've added a few new pictures to the gallery pages and I've updated the links list as well. I've also been given the go-ahead by Tracey and Melissa to call this the "Official" Voice Of The Beehive website. I'll try to keep up more with this page, updating here and there, but with a band that no longer exists there's not much more you can add.

For those who are wondering what the old gang is up to, Tracey and Melissa still live in Laguna Beach, where they're enjoying life to the fullest. Martin is doing a great job with his new band Dollshouse. Be sure to check in with him at the Dollshouse website, and pick up a copy of their CD. Woody's still busy working with Madness. And Mike appears to have fallen off the face of earth. If you know anything more about anybody's current whereabouts or activities, please feel free to drop me a line.

Enjoy the new pages.