Ronnie Wood has revealed that progress on the new Faces album has stalled, saying it is hard to make their “times tally”.
Rumours of a reunion for the group – which also features Rod Stewart and drummer Kenney Jones – have been swirling for several years now, and it stepped up a notch in June when Wood joined Stewart during his ‘Legends Slot’ appearance at Glastonbury 2025 for the Faces classic ‘Stay With Me’.
Jones appeared to confirm that a new album from the band was in the works in an interview with The Telegraph earlier this year, revealing they had recorded “about 11 tracks” at RAK Studios in London.
Now, during an appearance on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, Wood has offered an update on the progress of the record, suggesting that their respective diaries have made it difficult to push forward.
“We’ve got these songs that we’re working on from back in the day, but it’s hard to make our times tally,” he told presenter Lauren Laverne.
“When we do get a chance to get in the studio again, we will finish off these songs. We’ve got a good body of songs going.”
Rumours of a Faces comeback picked up momentum in 2020 when the trio came together to perform a live rendition of ‘Stay With Me’ at that year’s BRIT Awards. The following year, Wood spoke to The Times and said that his bandmates recently visited his new London home and that they “have been recording some new Faces music”.
Around that same time, Stewart teased that he, Wood and Jones had completed “15 tracks that are extremely worthy, some old, some new”, and Jones made a similar statement elsewhere, stating: “It’s a mixture of stuff we never released which is worthy of releasing and there’s some new stuff which is really wonderful… Rod is writing the lyrics and he’s really keen on it.”
The band formed in 1969 from the ashes of Small Faces, and formally disbanded in 1975 after Stewart left the group. Around the same time, Wood began playing with The Rolling Stones. In their time together, Faces recorded four studio albums, the most recent being ‘Ooh La La’, which was shared back in 1973.
Faces’ founding keyboardist Ian McLagan died of a stroke back in 2014, and bassist Ronnie Lane passed away more than a decade earlier in 1997.
NME reviewed Stewart’s Glastonbury 2025 show, awarding it four stars and noting: “It may be the staggering heat or a stronger Sunday hangover this year, but the crowd aren’t quite as raucous as they often are for the legends slot, despite the many resplendent in copycat wigs and spandex. Still, the man’s voice is on point and he knows how to charm while giving you bang for your buck.”
