2022 ALBUMS PREVIEW
FACES
TITLE: To be confirmed
LABEL: To be confirmed
RELEASE DATE: To be confirmed
Nearly 50 years on from their last studio album, the three surviving Faces – Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood and Kenney Jones – reunite for more ooh la la…
KENNEY JONES: “Getting back together again this year was so great. What can I say? It was noisy! Lots of laughs. Listening back to some of our old stuff was so emotionally satisfying. We were appreciating Faces songs that we hadn’t listened to since we first recorded them. I kept thinking, ‘My God, how did I manage to do that when I was drunk? I don’t remember doing that!’ When I tried to recreate it, I found I couldn’t do it. That was the thing about the Faces: we were such a great band when we were sober, then a little dishevelled when we were drunk. Dishevelled blues, I call it.
“We were such a great band when sober, then a little dishevelled when we were drunk”
KENNEY JONES
“What we’ve decided to do is work on some of the original stuff that we didn’t use, so the album is going to be a mixture of old and new. The songs we’ve been revisiting are from right across the board. It’s very difficult to go into specifics, because many of them didn’t even have titles. I think the fans may have heard certain things before and might recognise them. Ronnie and I, in particular, have been working on lots of the old stuff together and we’ve re-recorded a couple of those songs with more of a modern feel.
“The new songs are coming along, too. We’re definitely going in the right direction, but work had to stop temporarily while Woody went back to his rescheduled gigs with the Stones. The same thing happened with Rod. I know that Rod, between things on tour, is working on lyrics to some of them. Woody is doing the same thing. So we’ll return to those when we’re able to get back together again.
“I don’t want to give away too much at this point, but there will be some special guests on there with us. We’ve already done a few overdub sessions with some well-known people, which will remain a trade secret for the moment. All I can say is that it’ll be out when it’s finished. There are so many other factors involved, not just the touring backlog but things like delays due to the vinyl shortage.
“We’ve also got future releases planned for Nice Records, after the success of the recent]. I’m still working on an animated film version of . We’ve done some new arrangements and we’ll be re-recording a lot of it. I was originally thinking about a fulllength feature film, but now it might be a six-part series. We’ll see. I never wanted the Small Faces, individually or collectively, to be in it. I just wanted it to be an animated film about Happiness Stan who goes in search of the other half of the moon. But now I’m thinking, ‘What’s wrong with putting us in there?’ So I’m playing around with different ideas.
