THE
FACES STORY
Featuring
the music of SMALL FACES, HUMBLE PIE & THE FACES! Performed by the SMALL FAKERS, HUMBLE LIE & THE FACES EXPERIENCE
Quite
frankly, a nailed-on, copper-bottomed ‘must see’ show for any self-respecting
fan of The Small Faces, Humble Pie, Rod Stewart & The Faces, or any
permutation of the three!
Featuring
a trio of exceptional tribute bands - The Small Fakers, Humble Lie and The
Faces Experience (featuring internationally renowned Rod Stewart tribute Stan
Terry) - The Faces Story presents the very best of these three amazing groups
whose inextricably linked histories weave a narrative through the most dynamic
and creative period in British popular culture.
Over two
and a half hours, The Faces Story recreates the sights, sounds, energy and
excitement generated from ’65 to ’75 by the exceptional talents of Marriott,
Lane, McLagan, Jones, Frampton, Ridley, Shirley, Wood and Stewart, also known
as...
The
Small Faces – for any discerning mod, the very finest home-grown group to come
out of the sharpest youth cult ever spawned in the UK, and an outrageously
talented band to boot. Hugely influential even now, almost 45 years after they
split, the Small Faces left us with such classic tracks as All Or Nothing, Here
Come The Nice, Tin Soldier, Itchycoo Park and Lazy Sunday amongst many others.
Humble
Pie – formed by singer Steve Marriott after quitting The Small Faces, and with
Pete Frampton on guitar, Humble Pie, along with Led Zeppelin, took the new, hip
sound of ‘white man blues’ to an entirely different level. Reworking R&B
standards and writing original material with astonishing power and exquisite
musicality, Humble Pie left all but the very best of their contemporaries
standing, and blew audiences away wherever they took the stage. In no time at
all, they were established as one of the major league rock acts in the US,
where they dominated the arena and concert hall circuit throughout the early
70s thanks to blistering belters like Thirty Days In A hole, Four Day Creep,
Big Black Dog, Hot ‘n’ Nasty, Black Coffee and their lava-hot version of Ray
Charles’s I Don't Need No Doctor.
The
Faces – picking themselves up and dusting themselves down after the shock of
losing their virtually irreplaceable lead singer, the three Small Faces left
behind – Kenney Jones, Ian McLagan and Ronnie Lane – recruited Ronnie Wood on
guitar, and then a certain Rod Stewart on lead vocals. Like we said, Steve
Marriott was virtually irreplaceable, not utterly irreplaceable! Rod’s husky
vocals and sublime song-writing talent, matched by that of Ronnie Lane, coupled
with the raunchy playing of the band, produced an awesome repertoire of
incredible songs and created one of the finest and most entertaining live acts
of the early 70s. Not content with producing such terrific tracks as Three
Button Hand Me Down, Cindy Incidentally, Stay With Me, Ooh La La, Debris and
Miss Judy’s Farm, The Faces also backed Rod on numbers he put out as a solo
artist, including massive monsters like Maggie May, Reason To Believe, You Wear
It Well, Mandolin Wind, Gasoline Alley and way too many more to mention.
THE
FACES STORY – a trilogy of performances compressing the very best of three
these amazing acts into one sensational show. Our advice to you is: DO NOT
MISS!
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