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The Faces: with Mick Hucknall. Really?
Posted by rocker43 on 25 May 2010 - 10:59pm.
so news today that a classic early 70s classic/blues rock band is reuniting this summer with a pop/soul singer from the 1980s on vocals and a bass player from an iconic 70s punk band (Glenn Matlock).
Now, I'm a broadminded guy but firstly, am I the only one smelling a whiff of cash incentive here and secondly, what would be the point of me going to see this band?
And shouldn't they be called something like Simply the Face Pistols or, perhaps, The Sex Red Faces.
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Perhaps
Money's too tight to mention.
It could be ..
..Paul Young, couldn't it?
The Red Sex Faces
would be the ideal name
Set list could include
Something Else Got Me Started
The Great Huck ‘n’ Whole Swindle
*I'll get me coat*
It could be worse
Paul Rodgers ....
Ooh La Latex?
Coat procured...
Hucknall's Bobby Bland record
the other year proves he knows his stuff and Matlock has always been a Faces fan.
But frankly, without Lane why should anyone moan about the lack of that pointless tit Stewart? No offence intended to any other tits out there of course.
You've got to be FKM
Mick Huckers? That's like getting Sting to front the Pistols, Annie Lennox to front The Supremes, Michael Stipe to front the Spiders from Mars, Bono to front The Clash *goes on like this for several hours*
I'm a huge Faces and Pistols fan - but Matlock? Why not get Tetsu back, at least he's got some claim to the Faces seventies legacy.
A few more reunions to wet the appetite
Joy Division reform with that chap out of Razorlight?
The Magic Band with Newton Faullkner?
Chris de Burg and Led Zeppelin
Cliff Richard and Nivrana
Elton John and The Doors
The Doors are busy burnishing their legacy
Two of them are touring with an orchestra :
http://www.allgigs.co.uk/view/article/2715/Mind_The_Doors_Ray_Manzarek_A...
Wot? No Ian Astbury?
Wot? No Ian Astbury?
Presumably they don't have rights to the name 'The Doors'
or couldn't afford to license it? Makes me wonder who does own the name these days?
I think
Erin owns it.
Sorry to be such a dunce..
but who or indeed what is Erin ?
Erin Doors
George Cole's Missus in Minder = "her indoors"
[I think - non parliamo cockernee, per se]
We could add
...another few hundred to Patrick crowthers Bloody Stupid thread with these...
This is what to expect
And this is what might have been expected:
I mean, like, why bother?
Sloppy seconds
Get Rod back and I've paid almost anything for a ticket. With that silly ol' Hucker Karaokeing it up, I wouldn't give you tuppence ha'penny
Mick Hucknall & The Faces? Simply Daft
He's a decent singer in his own genre but he's no Rod Stewart. This is potentially a marriage forged in Hell. Ronnie Lane will be turning in his grave.
I loved the Faces and their music, but I really can't think of a single one of their songs that I'd like Mick Hucknell to sing.
Chris Robinson from The Black Crowes....
.....would be my choice. My fave singer and obviously influenced by that late 60's/early's 70's sound/era. He'd be perfect and has a great voice. I've got a live cover they did of 'Three Button Hand Me Down' on my ipod.
Hucknall is a bit too smooth vocalwise to front The Faces.
or
Terry Reid
That's perfect
That's perfect, as my level of interest in the works of either Mick or Rod are exactly the same!
I'd see them in a new light if they went with the suggested name-change though, brilliant.
I don't know...
On the surface, it's a bit like reforming The Beatles with Les Gray, but that version of Stay With Me is awesome. I'd be up for more of that.
from 'Vintage at Goodwood'
Enjoyed this, though MH all but drowned out by the crowd. Gotta love Ronnie...
Fair play to the boy Hucknall
he made a valiant stab at it.
I'd say he was as good a dep as Trevor Horn was during his stint in Yes - and you take that how you wish ;-)
Not at all bad
Miles better than I'd have expected - close your eyes and it could be Rod. In fact having seen Rod on an ITV show recently, Mick sounds more like Rod of old than Rod does now.
hope rod hears and feels quite resentful
party pooper
Ridiculous to go out under the name The Faces
I mean, this is breaking the rules of the trades description act, surely?
By the way, does anyone here also grudgingly admire Mick Hucknall? I mean he has a touch of the Serge Gainsbourgs about him doesn't he, "Look, I know you think I'm an ugly so-and-so but just look who I'm dating now!".
I quite liked Simply Red
There, Ive said it! I feel better now.
He does seem to be on the Joe Elliot diet though.
Can't believe
no-one has mentioned the obvious new name yet.
The Simply Red Faces.
Which should tick all the boxes for those involved.