This week’s news and gossip

More fun in Vegas

Lets start with a few crackers from last week from Louise Cotton

Penny joined Rod in Vegas on Friday and posted..Excited for Rods shows in Vegas and the F1 race nights this weekend, Go go go!

Vicky Phillips Marrow and husband Steve were celebrating their 39th wedding anniversary and also got us some great photos in Vegas

Including this weeks Wolfie’s shot

And as you know Vicky is known as the Mad Hatter..Well look at her latest hat!!

On Saturday Rod and Penny led a star-studded list of celebrities enjoying the qualifying action at the Las Vegas Grand Prix They met up with Christian Horner in the Red Bull Racing garage

Also spotted out and about were Brad Pitt, Gordon Ramsay, Usain Bolt, Mark Wright, model Brooks Nader, DJ Chantel Jeffries and influencer Nastya Swan.

Rod and Penny later bumped into racing legend Jackie Stewart

And Penny’s mate Geri Horner

Penny also got a great capture of the lads..

Next up was the Saturday night show and Vicky was back..

The Mad Hatter strikes again..

And Geoff Marinec also got some great shots

As did Daniel Beirne

On Sunday Rod sent his congratulations to Vegas Grand Prix winner Max Verstappen

Haute Living Cover Launch

Haute Living celebrated their latest cover star ‘Sir Rod’ in Vegas at an intimate cocktail and dinner reception at Off The Grid Suite at Sushi Roku at The Forum Shops at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

Guests included Penny, Lee Maen, Josh Kline, Duncan Frew, Jose Carlos Gonzalez, And Rod’s band.

During the celebratory evening, The Singapore Tourism Board immersed guests in an extraordinary cocktail experience entitled the “Singapore Passion Made Possible” partnership with Haute Living showcasing their nation’s most acclaimed concoctions.

Attendees danced to beats by DJ Taras Romanov and sipped on the Guests enjoyed their cocktails with a view overlooking the strip, complemented by the sight of Rod’s billboard. Guests indulged in a Champagne Telmont toast to Rod with a nod to his Wolfie’s Whisky.

During the event, renowned South African celebrity artist Johnathan Schultz presented a bespoke artwork to Rod.

Wednesday Night

On Wednesday it was back to the stage in Vegas and Glenna Heraly was in the house to get more of her superb photos including our brilliant main shot

Laura Bean also got some great shots

To read the SMILER review by Sue Walton go to https://www.rodstewartfanclub.com/news/saying-goodbye-to-2023-in-style/

After the show Holly Brewer posted on Instagram that this was maybe her last Rod show?…If it was Good Luck in the future Holly

This weeks Rod Art

Everyone loved the digital art we showed you last week from Tokyo based artist Kayo on the planet so here is her latest masterpiece

Kayo said ‘Here’s Sir Rod with my theme “umbrella” generated by Stable Diffusion XL’

To see more work by Kayo go to https://www.instagram.com/kayo_on_planet/

Jools’ Annual Hootenanny

After years of trying Jools Holland has finally got Rod to guest on his Jools’ Annual Hootenanny TV show that will be broadcast on New years Yve.

Rod and Jools are also planning more TV appearances to promote their collaboration swing album due out in February

Unlike Rod’s Great American Songbook series this album has been recorded with Rod singing with the full Jools band, On the GAS albums Rod recorded his vocals seperate, Rod wanted this up tempo album to have a less polished jazz feel.

‘Had Me A Real Good Time at the BBC’ – In Session & In Concert 1971 – 1973

We had a mixed reaction to our big Exclusive Faces announcement this week, everyone was very excited about the project but many were confused as to why the UK allocation was only 500, Rob Caiger explaines..

“I wouldn’t disagree at all with those comments. The 500 quantity is based on the response Warner had from UK independent retailers – record labels do research & analysis months up front. If you think about it, while this is a limited edition, a record company wants to sell as many LPs as possible and would have allocated more to the UK if there had been a greater demand from retailers here. As it was, they had excellent responses from the US, Germany and other territories worldwide and have allocated accordingly.

Personally, I feel the numbers are far too low for the UK so let’s prove it so all future releases are well stocked in UK record stores and we see the Faces proudly displayed.

What I would ask the fans to do is let SMILER know which local indie stores they see the LP stocked & if it’s displayed – and also if it sold out.

I’ll then be able to feed this info back to the label.

If UK retail have got it wrong, I want Faces fans here to prove it to them by getting the LP the day it’s released, selling out and very few copies getting into the hands of scalpers and appearing on eBay.

Thank you! Rob”

It was great to hear many of you were getting your copies at your local indie record stores although bad Black Friday marks go to Heaven and Hell store who are selling the disc for £73.08 plus £10.43 postage on Ebay..Hopefully you will be avoiding them but good Black Friday marks go to our fantastic local indie stores like Beyond Vinyl in Newcastle Upon Tyne, Mixed Up Records in Glasgow, Crash Records in Leeds, Hey Joe Music and Coffee in Essex, Derricks Music in Swansea, ST Records in Dudley, and Chameleon Records in Aberdeen and the rest of the stres that are selling the album for around £30

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Sing it Again Rod

The very last of our Tim Jeffs ‘Sing it Again Rod’ Figures were posted out this week, we would like to thank Tim for once again doing a fantastic job and it was great to watch the project come to life step by step.

And thank you to all members who supported the project and everyone who let us see where the statues ended up.

And Finally..

Ronnie Wood appeared on Talksport this week where he was asked about Rod’s love for Celtic and Ronnie couldn’t help but poke fun at his mate.

He said: “I like Celtic too but I don’t ram it down people’s throats. He just goes on about it all the time.”

For the record Ronnie’s English team is West Bromwich Albion – he adopted them in the 1950s despite being a Londoner and having the pick of the capital’s big teams like Arsenal, Spurs and Chelsea.

Oh and don’t forget free shipping on your favourite whisky this weekend

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I’m in!..See you next week