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David Westlake
David Westlake (born 12 February 1965) is an English singer/songwriter. He led indie band The Servants from 1985 to 1991. HistoryWestlake formed indie band The Servants in 1985 in Hayes, Middlesex, England.[3] The Servants appeared on 1986's NME-associated C86 compilation, and the band was from 1986 to 1991 the original home of Luke Haines.[4] Haines describes David Westlake's first solo album, 1987's Westlake (Creation Records), as "a minor classic".[5] Retitled D87, the album was reissued in expanded form in 2023.[6] In 2002, Westlake released self-pressed album Play Dusty for Me (Mahlerphone) in a limited issue that quickly sold out.[7] Play Dusty for Me was reissued in limited form in 2010 and 2015.[8][9] Tiny Global Productions released Westlake's album My Beautiful England in 2022.[10][11] The ServantsThe Servants' Small Time album was well received on its 2012 Cherry Red Records release, more than twenty years after its 1991-recording. The belated release followed the inclusion of 1990's Disinterest in Mojo magazine's 2011 list of the greatest British indie records of all time.[12] Westlake and Haines played live together for the first time in twenty-three years at the Lexington, London N1 on 4 May 2014.[13] Westlake and band played at an NME C86 show on 14 June 2014 at Venue 229, London W1; the show marked Cherry Red Records' expanded reissue of C86.[14] As chronicled in an interview in US music magazine The Big Takeover (issue 53, 2004), Belle and Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch was a huge Westlake fan and tried to locate him in the early 1990s in hope of forming a band with him, before launching Belle and Sebastian in his school class instead.[7] David Westlake is a solicitor and academic.[2] DiscographySoloAlbums
With the ServantsAlbums
Singles
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