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Westlakeâs urbane
English songwriting was well received by the press, and first single âShe's Always Hidingâ was released on Head Records in March 1986, the band having declined offers from Statik,
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had âgone bustâ. Budget slashed, the band went into the studio to record third single âIt's My Turnâ. They played live to support the single but Glass delayed releasing the record for a year.
419:(issue 53, 2004) that he was a huge Westlake fan and that he had tried to locate Westlake in the early â90s in the hope of forming a band with him, before starting Belle & Sebastian.
340:. âIt is art rockâ, Haines later said, âTen years too late and fifteen years too early.â The record company took The Servantsâ fourth and final single, âLook Like A Girlâ, from
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is
Westlakeâs own favourite Servants record. The songs are, says Haines, âlooser, more mysterious, strange and beautiful, . . . sounding . . . like nothing else really.â
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Keen to distance themselves from the âshamblingâ scene, The
Servants earned a reputation for haughtiness. They grudgingly accepted an invitation by the then-popular
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Westlake and Haines played live together for the first time in twenty-three years at the
Lexington, London N1 on 4 May 2014. Westlake and band played at an
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album was well received on its 2012 release, more than twenty years after its 1991-recording. The belated release followed the inclusion of 1990âs
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319:, who invited the band to record an album. Plans were made to go into the studio with John Brand, producer of Hayes punk band
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David
Westlake recorded an album for Creation Records in 1987. He was backed by Luke Haines (making his recording debut) and
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and joined The
Servants in June 1987 (staying until August â89), as the band returned to the studio to demo new material for
403:, London WC2 on 21 August 1991 â âWith no room to manoeuvre and no opportunities leftâ, the band finally called it a day.
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magazineâs 2011 list of the greatest
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with school-friend Ed Moran. The
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Prior, Clive (December 2011). "100 Greatest
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562:(Jun 2002, Mahlerphone, CDA 001; reissued Jul 2010 & Nov 2015)
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570:(Oct 2022, Tiny Global Productions, PICI-0038-LP / PICI-0038-CD)
586:âItâs My Turnâ/âAfterglowâ (Sep 1989, Glass Records, GLASS056 )
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was in The Servants from December 1986 to August 1991. Drummer
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of their first single â the wrong-footing âTransparentâ. The
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Westlake and Haines recorded The Servantsâ second album,
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Luke Haines, sleevenotes to The Servantsâ compilation
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released a 2006 retrospective of The Servants, called
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Whatever Happened to the C86 Kids? An Indie Odyssey
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Whatever Happened to the C86 Kids? An Indie Odyssey
517:(Jul 1990, Paperhouse Records, PAPLP005 /PAPCD005 )
472:, the album was reissued in expanded form in 2023.
907:Graham, Ben (August 2023). "David Westlake: D87".
492:Tiny Global Productions released Westlakeâs album
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1018:Luke Haines, sleevenotes to The Servantsâ album
725:. Archived from the original on 4 September 2014
489:was reissued in limited form in 2010 and 2015.
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407:Belle & Sebastian
288:The Sun, a Small Star
647:Mojo â Indie Special
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