David Westlake
David Westlake | |
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At the NME C86 show - London, 2014 | |
Background information | |
Born |
Hayes, Middlesex, England[1] | 12 February 1965
Origin | England |
Genres | Indie, Art rock |
Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter |
Instruments | Guitar |
Years active | 1985–present |
Labels |
Cherry Red Captured Tracks |
Associated acts | The Servants |
Website | www.lostsheep.com/davidwestlake |
David Westlake is an English singer/songwriter. He led indie band The Servants from 1985 to 1991.
History
Westlake formed indie band the Servants in 1985 in Hayes, Middlesex, England.[2]
The Servants appeared on 1986’s NME-associated C86 compilation, and the band was from 1986 to 1991 the original home of Luke Haines.[3]
Haines describes David Westlake's first solo album, 1987's Westlake, as "a minor classic".[4]
Westlake's second solo album, 2002's Play Dusty for Me, was released in a limited issue that quickly sold out but was never re-pressed.[5] Captured Tracks reissued Play Dusty for Me in LP format on Black Friday, 2015.[6]
The Servants
The 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.[7]
Westlake and Haines played together for the first time in twenty-three years at the Lexington, London N1 on 4 May 2014.[8] 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.[9]
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.[10]
David Westlake is a solicitor and he lectures part-time at Brunel University.[11]
Discography
Albums
- David Westlake, Westlake (Nov 1987, Creation Records, CRELP019 [LP]; reissued on CD by Sony in 2004)
- The Servants, Disinterest (Sep 1989, Paperhouse Records, PAPLP005 [LP]/PAPCD005 [CD])
- David Westlake, Play Dusty for Me (Jun 2002, Mahlerphone, CDA 001 [CD]; reissued Jul 2010 Angular Recording Corporation ARC 018 [digital])
- The Servants, Reserved (2006, Cherry Red Records, CDMRED297 [CD]) (compilation)
- The Servants, Youth Club Disco (2011, Captured Tracks, CT-111 [LP]) (compilation)
- The Servants, Small Time/Hey Hey We're The Manqués (Oct 2012, Cherry Red Records, CDB RED 535 [2CD]; reissued Dec 2013, Captured Tracks, CT-185 [2LP])
- David Westlake, Play Dusty for Me (Nov 2015, Captured Tracks, CT-220 [LP]) (reissue)
Singles
- The Servants, "She’s Always Hiding"/"Transparent" (Mar 1986, Head Records, HEAD1 [7"])
- The Servants, "The Sun, a Small Star"/"Meredith"/"It Takes No Gentleman"/"Funny Business" (Oct 1986, Head Records, HEAD3 [12"])
- The Servants, "It’s My Turn"/"Afterglow" (Sep 1989, Glass Records, GLASS056 [7"])
- The Servants, "It’s My Turn"/"Afterglow"/"Faithful to 3 Lovers"/"Do or Be Done" (Sep 1989, Glass Records, GLASS12 056 [12"])
- The Servants, "Look Like A Girl"/"Bad Habits Die Hard" (- 1990, Paperhouse Records, - [7"])
Videos
- David Westlake & Luke Haines, "It's My Turn" (2014)
- David Westlake, "Everybody Has A Dream" (2014)
- David Westlake, "The Sun, A Small Star" (2014)
- David Westlake, "Say When" (2001)
- David Westlake, "Even If" (2001)
- David Westlake, The Lexington, London N1 (2012)
- The Servants, "Look Like A Girl" (1990)
- The Servants, "Who's Calling You Baby Now?" (1988)
- The Servants, "The Sun, A Small Star" (1985)
External sources
- Derek Sozou, David Westlake site
- Luke Haines, Bad Vibes (London: William Heinemann, 2009), 5-10.
- Luke Haines, sleevenotes to the Servants' compilation Reserved (Cherry Red Records CDMRED 297, 2006)
- Luke Haines, sleevenotes to the Servants' album Small Time (Cherry Red Records CDB RED 535, 2012)
- Jack Rabid, review of David Westlake's album Play Dusty For Me in The Big Takeover, 17 Jan 2011
- John Peel session information
- Janice Long session information
- PhD
References
- ↑ "The Servants". Only the Lonely. 2013. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
- ↑ Anthony Strutt (June 2012). "Phil King Interview". pennyblackmusic.co.uk. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
- ↑ Mark Carry (19 May 2014). "Time Has Told Me: The Servants". Fractured Air. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
- ↑ Luke Haines, sleeve-notes to the Servants compilation Reserved (Cherry Red Records CDMRED 297, 2006)
- ↑ Jack Rabid, The Big Takeover, 17 January 2011
- ↑ Discogs - David Westlake: Play Dusty for Me
- ↑ Prior, Clive (December 2011). "100 Greatest British Indie Records of All Time". Mojo - Indie Special. p. 123.
- ↑ "Hangover Lounge site". 2014. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
- ↑ Time Out, 11 December 2013
- ↑ Jack Rabid (17 January 2011). "Review of David Westlake's album Play Dusty for Me". The Big Takeover. Retrieved 11 June 2011.
- ↑ "Last FM". 2010. Retrieved 11 June 2011.