The singer has reunited with his bandmates Ronnie Wood, and Kenney Jones, for the new film and the trio are also trying to work on a new album.
The rock band – which features Rod Stewart, The Rolling Stones‘ guitarist Ronnie Wood and drummer Kenney Jones – have been hinting at a reunion in recent years, and now it has been confirmed that they have recorded 11 new tracks for a new album.
Speaking on the Soccer A-Z podcast, Rod said: 'I'm meeting up with the last two members of the Faces tomorrow, and we're working on a documentary, because next year will be our 50th anniversary, or 60s.
'I don't know what it is, but when the faces were together, and we're trying to put out an album. So I shall be with Mr. Woods and Mr. Jones.'
The rocker is also continuing to work on his own solo gigs with plenty of shows lined up for next year.
During an interview, Ronnie Wood revealed that his old band the Faces are making progress on a new recording project.
Around that same time, Rod Steward teased that he, Wood and Jones had completed “11 tracks that are extremely worthy, some old, some new” (via Louder), and Jones made a similar statement elsewhere, stating: “It’s a mixture of stuff we never released which is worthy of releasing and there’s some new stuff which is really wonderful… Rod is writing the lyrics and he’s really keen on it.”
“I’ve been in the studio with the Faces last week, and we are making some continued developments of music we made back in day,” he said. “And it still sounds like no time has gone by.”
The surviving Faces members—Wood, singer Rod Stewart, and drummer Kenney Jones—have been working on a new album project for several years. Jones explained in a 2021 interview that the Faces had started putting together a record featuring a mix of new songs and older previously unreleased material.
In February of 2024, Stewart told Vulture that he, Wood, and Jones were “still struggling to make this album.”
Faces Released Their Complete BBC Recordings. A new box set collect all of Faces' BBC Recordings from the early '70s.
The eight CD and one Blu-ray box, Faces at the BBC — Complete BBC Concert & Session Recordings 1970-1973,
includes the band’s surviving BBC Recordings, more than 80 tracks with most of them previously unreleased. The Blu-ray features newly restored footage from April 1972. (One BBC session of three songs is still missing.)
The set, available on Sept. 6, was remastered with the participation of Faces members Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood and Kenney Jones. (The other two original members have died, Ronnie Laine in 1997 and Ian McLachlan in 2014.)
According to a press release announcing the box, "Once thought lost, many of the band’s BBC recordings were recovered from the Faces’ own archives and private collections."
Faces at the BBC — Complete BBC Concert & Session Recordings 1970-1973 gathers the band's appearances on BBC programs during that time, including John Peel's Sunday Concert, Sounds for Saturday and Top Gear.
They played most of their best-known songs during these appearances: "(I Know) I'm Losing You," "Cindy Incidentally" and "Stay With Me," their biggest single.
You can see the track listing below.
In 2021, both Wood and Jones said the surviving members have recorded new music, but nothing has surfaced since then.
Faces, 'Faces at the BBC — Complete BBC Concert & Session Recordings 1970-1973' Track Listing
Disc One
John Peel’s Sunday Concert (Broadcast July 5, 1970)
1. “You’re My Girl (I Don’t Want To Discuss It)” *
2. “Wicked Messenger” *
3. “Devotion” *
4. “It’s All Over Now” *
5. “I Feel So Good” *
John Peel’s Sunday Concert (Broadcast November 29, 1970)
6. “Country Comfort”
7. “You’re My Girl (I Don’t Want To Discuss It)”
8. “Too Much Woman (For A Henpecked Man) / Street Fighting Man”
9. “Maybe I’m Amazed”
10. “Around The Plynth / Country Honk / Gasoline Alley”
Disc Two
John Peel’s Sunday Concert (Broadcast May 23, 1971)
1. “You’re My Girl (I Don’t Want To Discuss It)” *
2. “Cut Across Shorty”
3. “Love In Vain”
4. “Bad ’n’ Ruin” *
5. “It’s All Over Now” *
6. “Had Me A Real Good Time” *
7. “(I Know) I’m Losing You” *
8. “I Feel So Good” *
Disc Three
Sounds For Saturday (Broadcast April 1, 1972)
1. “Three Button Hand Me Down” *
2. “Maybe I’m Amazed”
3. “Too Much Woman (For A Henpecked Man) / Street Fighting Man” *
4. “Miss Judy’s Farm”
5. “Love In Vain” *
6. “Stay With Me”
7. “(I Know) I’m Losing You”
Disc Four
John Peel’s Sunday Concert (Broadcast February 26, 1972)
1. Intro / “You’re My Girl (I Don’t Want To Discuss It)” *
2. “Three Button Hand Me Down” *
3. “Miss Judy’s Farm” *
4. “Memphis, Tennessee” *
5. “Give Me The Moonlight” *
6. “Too Bad” *
7. “Last Orders Please” *
8. “Devotion” *
9. “That’s All You Need / Country Honk / Gasoline Alley” *
10. “(I Know) I’m Losing You” *
11. “Stay With Me” *
12. “Had Me A Real Good Time” *
13. “Underneath The Arches” *
14. “Every Picture Tells A Story” *
Disc Five
In Concert (Recorded February 8, 1973) not originally broadcast
1. “Silicone Grown” *
2. “Cindy Incidentally” *
3. “Angel” *
4. “Memphis, Tennessee” *
5. “True Blue” *
6. “I’d Rather Go Blind” *
7. “You’re My Girl (I Don’t Want To Discuss It)” *
8. “Twistin’ The Night Away” *
9. “It’s All Over Now” *
10. “Miss Judy’s Farm” *
11. “Maybe I’m Amazed” *
12. “Three Button Hand Me Down” *
13. “(I Know) I’m Losing You” *
Disc Six
In Concert (Broadcast April 21, 1973)
1. “Silicone Grown” *
2. “Cindy Incidentally” *
3. “Memphis, Tennessee” *
4. “If I’m On The Late Side” *
5. “My Fault” *
6. “The Stealer”
7. “Borstal Boys”
8. “Angel”
9. “Stay With Me”
10. “True Blue”
11. “Twistin’ The Night Away” *
12. “Miss Judy’s Farm”
13. “Jealous Guy”
14. “Too Bad”
Disc Seven
Top Gear (Broadcast March 28, 1970)
1. “Wicked Messenger” *
2. “Devotion”
3. “Shake, Shudder, Shiver”
4. “Pineapple And The Monkey” *
Dave Lee Travis (Broadcast March 15, 1970)
5. “Three Button Hand Me Down” *
6. “Flying”
7. “Wicked Messenger” *
Top Gear (Broadcast September 19, 1970)
8. “Had Me A Real Good Time” *
9. “Around The Plyth / Gasoline Alley”
10. “Country Comfort” *
Top Gear: John Peel’s Christmas Carol Concert (Broadcast December 26, 1970)
11. “Away In A Manger” – Rod Stewart *
12. “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / Good King Wenceslas / Silent Night / O Come All Ye Faithful” – Faces & Choir *
Disc Eight
Sounds Of The Seventies (Broadcast May 3, 1971)
1. “Had Me A Real Good Time” *
2. “Love In Vain” *
3. “Oh Lord I’m Browned Off” *
4. “Maybe I’m Amazed” *
Top Gear (Broadcast October 6, 1971)
5. “Stay With Me”
6. “Miss Judy’s Farm”
7. “Maggie May”
Blu-ray
Sounds For Saturday (Broadcast April 1, 1972)
1. “Three Button Hand Me Down” *
2. “Maybe I’m Amazed”*
3. “Too Much Woman (For A Henpecked Man / Street Fighting Man” *
4. “Miss Judy’s Farm”*
5. “Love In Vain” *
6. “Stay With Me”*
7. “(I Know) I’m Losing You”*
* previously unreleased
Describing Rod Stewart and his other bandmates as an “unmanageable” group, he regretted the fact that they’d often be drinking before they started recording sessions, and that they didn't come prepared with much material to explore in the studio.
“It was very frustrating sometimes when we went in to record, because I feel that we were working things out as we went along,” Jones said in the June edition of Uncut. “We’d do a riff, then see if we could make it work, rather than go in with a finished song. … Musically, I think we could have done a lot better had we been more sober.”
“We were a bunch of piss-takers," he explained. "[Manager] Billy Gaff was Irish, a lovely guy. But he could never have a serious group meeting with the Faces, as we’d be putting things on his head and throwing stuff. It meant he could never discuss anything. How he ever made any decisions, I’ll never know. Tony Toon was our publicist. We used to treat him the same way.
