Afterglow

Dear James,

I'm going through a bit of a Small Faces renaissance at the moment, although since I was never really into the Small Faces back in the day it's really a Small Faces naissance. I started psychoanalysis yesterday and my therapist says it's perfectly all right for a man of my age to do this. You can read more about that and more at my new blog, here. It's bilingual, but if you just read the bits at the tops of each article, you shouldn't find it too taxing.

I've also been enjoying their "quirky, off-beat and very successful" Son of a Baker, which we're not allowed to embed (Why Small Faces? We could make you famous like we did with Little Boots!) However, the song appears to be about being a baker getting it together to bake some bread. Is this a metaphor? What other mod bands did songs about trades? Do The Who have a little-known b-side called The Artisans are Alright, about a guy whose girl is going out with a man who makes handcrafted nit-nacks? Do The Jam have a song about making jam for a small family business? Probably not.

An annoyance with youtube is that all the live Small Faces stuff is just them miming. There's even one with P.P. Arnold doing "Tin Soldier", except miming. And even then she only gets three lines.



Let the lady sing, Steve and Ronnie! Oh there we go, you already have: