Monday, 24 February 2014

An outstanding bill!!: The Faces Story performed by Small Fakers, Humble Lie & The Faces Experience at The Robin 2, Bilston, Wolverhampton on Thursday 06 November 2014


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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