“I’ve sent a lot of them [songs] to Ronnie Wood,” said Stewart. “I told him, ‘This is stuff we’ve recorded with my band, maybe The Faces would like to do it instead?’ We’re still struggling to make this album. We’ll see. Some of them might see the light of day.”
The Faces Supposed To Release A Wealth Of Never Before Heard Material in 2024. Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood and Kenney Jones unearthing previously unreleased material for Faces reissue campaign kicking off in 2024
Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood and Kenney Jones have all spoken of reconvening the Faces, the blues, soul and folk knaves who burned brightly and boozily from 1969 to 1975. There’s still no news, but Faces freaks will take ample comfort from a new reissue campaign kicking off in ’24, according to Mojo.
Appetites were whetted by last month’s Record Store Day release Had Me A Real Good Time… With Faces Live In Session At The BBC 1971-1973, which collected primo-sounding radio rarities. It was put together by Faces specialist Rob Caiger, who’s worked closely with the surviving members and the estates of the late Ian McLagan and Ronnie Lane since 2020 to dig their personal archives for treasure.
While the Faces’ 2004 box Five Guys Walk Into A Bar… was assembled by McLagan, Caiger says new deluxe, remastered editions of the Faces albums will be joint affairs, replete with memorabilia, rare photos and, most importantly, extra music. “When I say there’s a wealth of unreleased material – there’s a wealth of unreleased material,” says Caiger. “You can only fit so much on an LP and singles. There’s rehearsals, outtakes, unreleased songs, session multitracks, you name it. It was a joy and a privilege, really. In 2010 I started going through Kenney’s old flight cases, and Ronnie Wood has the most incredible, organised archive… you find the tape, and it’s the only tape. This stuff has never leaked out and no-one’s heard it, that’s why it’s exciting.”
Formed in 1969 from the ashes of the Jeff Beck Group and the Small Faces, Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood along with bassist Ronnie Lane, keyboardist Ian McLagan and drummer Kenney Jones went on to play over 500 concerts worldwide as Faces before their break up in 1975, according to Bestclassicbands.
There has been talk from Jones that the surviving members—Stewart, Wood and Jones—were working on new recordings and a possible tour. In a 2021 interview, the drummer said the trio had recorded 14 songs, describing them as “a mixture of stuff we never released which is worthy of releasing and… some new stuff which is really wonderful.” In 2022, Jones said, Ronnie and I have been working on lots of the old stuff together and we’ve re-recorded a couple of those songs with a more modern feel. . .
Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood have been urged to re-form The Faces – by their wives.
Sir Rod and Ronnie teamed up with their old drummer Kenney Jones for a one-off reunion to close the Brit Awards. The ‘Ooh La La’ group split in 1975 and have reunited several times in the years since, though without the full surviving members of the original line-up until Sir Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood and Kenney Jones performed a charity show in 2015, a private gig in 2019 and a brief appearance at the 2020 Brit Awards.
Penny Lancaster and Sally Wood are pestering their husbands to make a full-time comeback.
"Ronnie has found some pieces of music and I've found other pieces of music, some are whole tracks, some are not, some are just bits."
Speaking exclusively to BANG Showbiz, he said: "We've done about 14 songs, 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."
Kenney has also spilled on the Faces' live plans, revealing that the band intend to play several massive shows and are eyeing up venues such as The O2 in London and New York's Maddison Square Garden.
He added: "Whether or not we're going to go on a big extended tour remains to be seen. What we have decided is to do some really big gigs like The O2, Maddison Square Garden, some other big venues in America,
“The Faces are one of those bands whose reputation as a live act has only grown as the years have passed,” says Houghton. “The words ‘best gig I ever saw’ pop up time and again in the accounts in this book, because for rock fans of a certain age there simply was no one better than the Faces.”
