There has been plenty of comment about Mick Hucknall’s suitability or otherwise as a replacement for Rod Stewart in a reformed Faces but unless I’ve missed it what no-one seems to have mentioned is what they might actually play. When The Faces played live back in the day their repertoire consisted of around 50% songs from Faces albums and 50% songs from Rod’s solo albums, including many of the (often splendid) covers that Rod chose to record on those albums. And the general consensus of opinion in those days was that Rod’s albums were superior to Faces’ albums.
Presumably, without Rod, there won’t be the incentive or the will to play the material from his albums, and what with Ronnie Lane regrettably not around to sing his songs, this will surely leave them with a chronic lack of material.
Unless, of course, The Faces chance their arm on a few Simply Red songs. Oh dear…
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Of course, in an ideal universe, this whole thing would be an elaborate set-up, with Hucknall really excited that he’s going to be playing with the Faces, taking to the stage, and the moment he opens his mouth he’s doused in flying bottles of piss, as his fellow musicians make a diplomatic exit and leave him to his fate.
But it’s not. The others would appear to be into it as well. Ho hum.
Perhaps Martine McCutcheon could be summoned to vomit into his hair as she did on a previous occasion.