The Honeycombs - The (new) Honeycombs and Afterwards

The (new) Honeycombs and Afterwards

The group went on, with new lead singer, guitarist and keyboardist (This line-up released the last single "That Loving Feeling"):

• Colin Boyd (born Colin Nicholas Nicol, 4 June 1946, Combe, outside Bath, Somerset) - Guitar and vocals. Later he formed Honeybus and changed his name to Colin Hare
• Rod Butler (born Rodney Butler, 27 May 1944, Mill Hill, London) - Lead guitar and vocals. Later he played with The Lemmings and subsequently The College Boys, formed by ex-Honeycomb Martin Murray. Butler later joined forces with D'Ell and formed Zarabanda and later still played in Violinski, with Mik Kaminski of the ELO
• Eddie Spence - Keyboards and vocals
• John Lantree - Bass guitar
• Honey Lantree - Drums and vocals

In 1967, The Honeycombs broke up.

In the 1990s founding member Martin Murray toured the cabaret circuit with a group called 'Martin Murray's Honeycombs'. Another line-up including Honey Lantree, Peter Pye and Denis D'Ell also successfully toured from 1991 onwards. John Lantree later rejoined this line-up. In 1999 record producer Russell C. Brennan asked D'Ell, Honey and John Lantree and Pye to record "Live and Let Die", on the Future Legend Records compilation, Cult Themes from the 70s Vol. 2. This compilation also featured Glenda Collins, another Joe Meek artist. At present there are two groups calling themselves the Honeycombs, one led by founder member Martin Murray, the other by later member Tony Harte.

In 2011 a band led by Paul Bonner appeared calling themselves The New Honeycombs after working with Martin Murray as The Honeycombs for over a year. Subsequently the legal rights to the name The New Honeycombs were secured and they are still working today.