…MOJO presents a bespoke CD of rare, live and previously unreleased songs from the mod icons, including storming live versions of ‘Whatcha Gonna Do About It’ and ‘Tin Soldier’, alternative takes, never-before-released tracks.
October 1965. ‘Whatcha Gonna Do About It’, the debut Small Faces single, is making its way up the UK charts. The four original members, only together for a few months, are learning how to be a band, and how to talk to the music press.
“We admire The Who,” bassist Ronnie Lane tells the NME’s Norrie Drummond, “but we have never tried to copy them in any way. We are Mods and appeal to mods, but that’s about all we have in common with them.”
Then Lane’s bandmate, drummer Kenney Jones…
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…The 11-track album Something Nice includes rarities, alternate takes and live cuts, including a set of tracks from the new deluxe edition of The Autumn Stone.
This slew of rare Small Faces goodies is largely pooled from Kenney Jones’s recently revived Nice Records. “I started the label in the ’90s to raise money for Ronnie Lane when he had multiple sclerosis,” Jones tells Uncut. “I put it to bed after he died, but have since thought, ‘No, I want to do something with this.’”
The first Nice release was 2021’s Live 1966, an extraordinary document of Small Faces’ two sets at the Twenty Club in Mouscron, Belgium, selections from which comprise the first half of CD. “It was one of the first gigs we’d ever done…