David Westlake | |
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Background information | |
Born | Hayes, Middlesex, England [1] | 12 February 1965
Origin | England |
Genres | Indie, art rock |
Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter |
Instrument(s) | Guitar |
Years active | 1985-present |
Labels | Tiny Global Productions Cherry Red Records |
Formerly of | The Servants |
Spouse(s) | Patsy Westlake [2] |
Website | lost-sheep.com/davidwestlake |
David Westlake (born February 12, 1965) is an English singer/songwriter. He led indie band The Servants from 1985 to 1991.
Westlake 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 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]
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