THE SERVANTS She's Always Hiding
7" Single
SONGS She's Always Hiding/Transparent
PRODUCER Richard Preston
STUDIO Alvic, Baron's Court, London
RECORDED 31 January 1986
RELEASED March 1986
LABEL/NUMBER Head 1
Early 1985, David Westlake was 19, living in Hayes, Middlesex, England. Into Lennon/McCartney, Dusty Springfield & Doug Yule-era Velvet Underground, he advertised in the NME for musicians to join him playing his songs. Westlake took the band-name from Joseph Losey's film The Servant. First gig was opening for the Television Personalities at the Pindar of Wakefield (now the Water Rats) in London's King's Cross on 1 July 1985.
THE SERVANTS John Peel session
BBC Radio One
SONGS A Fleeting Visit/Rings On Her Fingers/You'd Do Me Good/She Whom Once I Dreamt Of
PRODUCER Dale Griffin
STUDIO BBC Stuidios, Maida Vale, London
RECORDED 16 March 1986
FIRST BROADCAST 24 March 1986
INFO: Discogs
BBC Radio 1 session for DJ John Peel.
VARIOUS ARTISTS NME C86
Compilation cassette/LP
RECORDING INFORMATION as for She's Always Hiding, above
RELEASED 1986
LABEL/NUMBER: Cassette - NME 022; LP - Rough Trade ROUGH 100
SIDE ONE 1. Primal Scream: Velocity Girl / 2. Mighty Lemon Drops: Happy Head / 3. Soup Dragons: Pleasantly Surprised / 4. Wolfhounds: Feeling So Strange Again / 5. Bodines: Therese / 6. Mighty Mighty: Law / 7. Stump: Buffalo / 8. Bogshed: Run To The Temple / 9. A Witness: Sharpened Sticks / 10. Pastels: Breaking Lines / 11. Age Of Chance: From Now On, This Will Be Your God
SIDE TWO 1. Shop Assistants: It's Up To You / 2. Close Lobsters: Firestation Towers / 3. Miaow: Sport Most Royal / 4. Half Man Half Biscuit: I Hate Nerys Hughes (From The Heart) / 5. Servants: Transparent / 6. MacKenzies: Big Jim / 7. Big Flame: New Way / 8. We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It: Console Me / 9. McCarthy: Celestial City / 10. Shrubs: Bullfighter's Bones / 11. Wedding Present: This Boy Can Wait
C86 was originally released in the summer of 1986. First as an NME mail-order-only cassette; then as a Rough Trade LP. Westlake gave "Transparent", the b-side of "She's Always Hiding". The NME arranged a series of five concerts at London's Institute Of Contemporary Art to coincide with the release of C86. The Servants opened for Primal Scream and The Wedding Present on 23 July.
THE SERVANTS The Sun, A Small Star
12" EP
SONGS The Sun, A Small Star/Meredith/It Takes No Gentleman/Funny Business
PRODUCER Richard Preston
STUDIO Elephant, Wapping Wharf, London
RECORDED 8 August 1986
RELEASED October 1986
LABEL/NUMBER Head 3
Westlake was still looking for a full-time line-up and a label to put out the next Servants record when "The Sun, A Small Star" came out. The label dropped The Servants before the record was released.
DAVID WESTLAKE & THE GO-BETWEENS Janice Long session
BBC Radio One
SONGS The Word Around Town/Dream Come True/Faithful To 3 Lovers/Everlasting
PRODUCER Barry Andrews
ENGINEERS Martin Colley & Elizabeth Lewis
MIXED BY Peter Watts
STUDIO BBC Studios, Maida Vale, London
RECORDED 14 January 1987 (mixed 12 February 1987)
FIRST BROADCAST 25 February 1987
BBC Radio 1 session for DJ Janice Long. Australian band The Go-Betweens were friends from when The Servants opened for them on tour, 10-22 April 1986. Robert Forster of the band offered to play guitar; Robert Vickers played bass; Amanda Brown played violin and oboe, and added backing vocals.
VARIOUS ARTISTS Doing God's Work - A Creation Compilation
Album
STUDIO Greenhouse, Islington, London
RECORDED 18/19 April 1987
RELEASED 1987
LABEL/NUMBER Creation CRELP 024
Luke Haines joined The Servants in December 1986, after answering Westlake's music press ad. "The Word Around Town", the song on the Creation compilation, is credited to David Westlake - not The Servants - because members of The Triffids play on it. Other artists on the compilation include: Nikki Sudden & the Jacobites, and Phil Wilson of the June Brides.
DAVID WESTLAKE Westlake
Album
SONGS The Word Around Town/Dream Come True/Rings On Her Fingers/Everlasting/She Grew And She Grew/Talk Like That
PRODUCER Paul Gadd and Steve Nunn
STUDIO Greenhouse, Islington, London
RECORDED 18/19 April 1987
RELEASED November 1987
LABEL/NUMBER Creation CRELP 019
RE-ISSUED 1993 on CD: Creation CRECD 019
Creation Records invited Westlake to make a six-song mini-album in 1987. It was issued as a David Westlake record, and not as The Servants, because The Triffids' rhythm section - Martyn Casey (bass) and Alsy MacDonald (drums) - play on it. Westlake wanted to name the record after the opening track, "The Word Around Town". Creation got used to calling the record "Westlake". Release was delayed for six months, by which time The Servants were touring the UK. Haines calls the record "a minor classic" in the sleevenotes to The Servants' Reserved compilation: "it cuts against the grain of the paisley psychedeliasts and inept Byrds tribute acts clogging up the Creation roster."
THE SERVANTS It's My Turn
7" Single/12" EP
SONGS It's My Turn/Afterglow/Faithful To 3 Lovers/Do Or Be Done
PRODUCER Harold Burgon
STUDIO Elephant, Wapping Wharf, London
RECORDED 19 November 1988
RELEASED September 1989
LABEL/NUMBER Glass 056/Glass 1205
Luke Haines was in The Servants from December 1986 to August 1991. Drummer Hugh Whitaker left chart-band The Housemartins and was in The Servants from June 1987 to August 1989. The Servants did not fit in at Creation Records, and were dropped. Glass Records invited the band to record an album. The day the band went into the studio a call arrived explaining that Glass was running out of money - better make it a single instead. Glass took more than a year to release "It's My Turn".
THE SERVANTS Disinterest
Album
SONGS Move Out/The Power Of Woman/Restless/Third Wheel/Thin-Skinned/Self Destruction/Hush Now/They Should Make A Statue/Hey, Mrs John/Look Like A Girl/Big Future/Afterglow
PRODUCER Mark Dawson
STUDIO Goldust, southeast London
RECORDED 17/18 April 1990
RELEASED July 1990
LABEL/NUMBER Paperhouse PAPLP005/PAPCD005
The Servants signed with Fire Records in 1990. Luke Haines says of Disinterest in the sleeve-notes to the Reserved compilation: "It is Art Rock. Ten years too late and fifteen years too early." MOJO included Disinterest in its list of the greatest British indie records of all time in the magazine's December 2011 Indie special (page 123).
THE SERVANTS Look Like A Girl
7" Single
SONGS Look Like A Girl/Bad Habits Die Hard/It's My Turn
A-SIDE RECORDING INFORMATION as on Disinterest
B-SIDE RECORDED BY Martin Schori, live in Biel, Switzerland, 4 May 1989
RELEASED August 1990
LABEL/NUMBER Paperhouse PAPER004
Single from Disinterest. The b-side features two live recordings: the otherwise-unrecorded "Bad Habits Die Hard", and "It's My Turn". The message etched into the b-side's run-out groove referenced The Servants' unstable record-label situation: "In case of Fire break Glass". Twelve months later - 21 August 1991 - The Servants played a final show at the Rock Garden in London's Covent Garden. Everyone said good night.
DAVID WESTLAKE Westlake
Album (CD reissue)
SONGS The Word Around Town/Dream Come True/Rings On Her Fingers/Everlasting/She Grew And She Grew/Talk Like That
RELEASED August 1993
LABEL/NUMBER Creation CRECD 019
Westlake played a gig in Hayes, Middlesex in September 1993 to coincide with (not quite to promote) the reissue.
DAVID WESTLAKE Play Dusty For Me
Album
SONGS Play Dusty For Me/Song For John/Back On Track/An Ocean Away/Say When/Stupid Love/The Lonely City/I Can't Give You The Life You Want/Nowhere Days/I Die For Love/Patience/Even If/Life On The Edge/Hi You/Life Goes On
RECORDED BY Cormac Moore
MIXED BY Willis Moore
STUDIO P.Boy Studios, Kilkenny, Ireland
RECORDED August 2001
RELEASED 11 June 2002
LABEL/NUMBER Mahlerphone CDA 001
Westlake played sporadic solo gigs, with and without a band, after finishing with The Servants in 1991. He continued writing songs, but he went twelve years without making a record. Westlake issued Play Dusty for Me, a self-pressed album of new material, in 2002. Recorded in Kilkenny, Ireland. The makeshift label-name "Mahlerphone" juxtaposes composer Gustav Mahler and The Beatles' record label, Parlophone.
VARIOUS ARTISTS
Performance #1 An Intercontinental
Compilation
RELEASED June 2002
LABEL/NUMBER Intercontinental ITC 8
INFO: Discogs
Features "Take Me To Your Heart" by David Westlake.
THE SERVANTS Reserved
Album
SONGS The Sun, A Small Star/A Fleeting Visit/You'd Do Me Good/Afterglow/She Whom Once I Dreamt Of/It Takes No Gentleman/It's My Turn/Rings On Her Fingers/Meredith/She's Always Hiding/Do Or Be Done/Faithful To 3 Lovers/Transparent/Funny Business/Loggerheads/Search Under Stones/Water Baby Blonde/Hey, Mrs John/Who's Calling You Baby Now?/I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
RELEASED 27 March 2006
LABEL/NUMBER Cherry Red CDM RED 297
Compilation issued by Cherry Red Records in 2006. Features Servants recordings from 1986 to 1989, including "The Sun, A Small Star" and "It's My Turn". Sleevenotes by Luke Haines.
VARIOUS ARTISTS cd86: 48 tracks from the birth of indie pop
Compilation album
DISC ONE 1. Primal Scream: Velocity Girl / 2. The Servants: The Sun, A Small Star / 3. Hurrah: Around And Around / 4. The Loft: Why Does The Rain / 5. East Village: Vibrato / 6. Sea Urchins: Pristine Christine / 7. Siddeleys: What Went Wrong This Time / 8. Another Sunny Day: Anorak City / 9. The Clouds: Get Out Of My Dream / 10. Boy Hairdressers: Golden Shower / 11. Chesterfields: Ask Johnny Dee / 12. Raw Herbs: He's Blown In / 13. Laugh: Paul McCartney / 14. The Hit Parade: You Didn't Love Me Then / 15. Weather Prophets: Like Frankie Lymon / 16. June Brides: Sunday To Saturday / 17. Dentists: I Had An Excellent Dream / 18. Mighty Mighty: Everybodys Knows The Monkey / 19. BMX Bandits: E102 / 20. Tallulah Gosh: Talulah Gosh / 21. Jasmine Minks: Cut Me Deep / 22. Razorcuts: I'll Still Be There / 23. Bodines: Therese / 24. TV Personalities: Paradise Estate
DISC TWO 1. Jesus And Mary Chain: Upside Down / 2. Primitives: Really Stupid / 3. Groove Farm: It Always Rains On Sunday / 4. Pop Will Eat Itself: Black Country Chainsaw Massacre / 5. 14 Iced Bears: Come Get Me / 6. Fizzbombs: Sign On The Line / 7. Wolfhounds: Anti Midas Touch / 8. Wedding Present: This Boy Can Wait / 9. Age Of Chance: Bible Of The Beats / 10. Shop Assistants: Safety Net / 11. Close Lobsters: Just Too Bloody Stupid / 12. Half Man Half Biscuit: Dukla Prague Away Kit / 13. Meat Whiplash: Don't Slip Up / 14. Flatmates: I Could Be In Heaven / 15. Darling Buds: If I Said / 16. This Poison: Poised Over The Pause Button / 17. Bachelor Pad: Jack And Julian / 18. Pooh Sticks: On Tape / 19. Revolving Paint Dream: Flowers Are In The Sky / 20. Soup Dragons: Whole Wide World / 21. McCarthy: Frans Hals / 22. Mighty Lemon Drops: Like An Angel / 23. Big Flame: Why Popstars Can't Dance / 24. Pastels: Baby Honey
RELEASED Late 2006
LABEL/NUMBER Sanctuary CMEDD1420
C86 twenty years on. Expanded CD edition. Now subtitled "the Birth of Indie Pop". Features "The Sun, A Small Star" by The Servants.
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Doing it for the Kids '08
A Compilation for Yorkhill
Children's Foundation
Track on Doing it for the Kids '08: A Compilation for Yorkhill Children's Foundation
RELEASED mid-2008
3CD charity compilation. Features "My Ice Queen" by David Westlake. For the benefit of Yorkhill Children's Foundation, based at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow. Other artists on Doing it for the Kids '08 include: Ed Ball (Television Personalities), and Glenn Thompson's Beachfield.
DAVID WESTLAKE Play Dusty For Me
Album
SONGS Play Dusty For Me/Song For John/Back On Track/An Ocean Away/Say When/Stupid Love/The Lonely City/I Can't Give You The Life You Want/Nowhere Days/I Die For Love/Patience/Even If/Life On The Edge/Hi You/Life Goes On/My Ice Queen (bonus track)/Never Grow Up (bonus track)/Loggerheads (bonus track)
RELEASED 5 July 2010
LABEL/NUMBER DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION Angular Recording Corporation
2010 digital issue of Westlake's 2002 album. The Angular Recording Corporation became defunct following losses resulting from the 2011 London riots.
THE SERVANTS Youth Club Disco
Vinyl LP
SONGS SIDE ONE: Loggerheads/Meredith/The Sun, A Small Star/You'd Do Me Good/A Fleeting Visit/It Takes No Gentleman/Water Baby Blonde
SIDE TWO: It's My Turn/Afterglow/She Whom Once I Dreamt Of/Rings On Her Fingers/Faithful to 3 Lovers/Do Or Be Done/She's Always Hiding
RELEASED 18 July 2011
LABEL/NUMBER CT CT-111
Vinyl compilation. Features Servants recordings from 1986 to 1989, including "The Sun, A Small Star" and "It's My Turn". Press reviews on the back-sleeve.
THE SERVANTS
Small Time / Hey Hey We're The Manqués
2CD Album
DISC ONE:Everybody Has a Dream/Don't Leave Town/People Going Places/Complete Works/Dating Then Waiting/Born to Dance/Motivation/Let's Live a Little/Aim in Life/Rejection/Fear Eats the Soul/The Thrill of It All/All Talk/Out of Your Life/Slow Dancing/Born to Dance (2)/The Thrill of It All (2)/All Talk (2)/Out Of Your Life (2)
DISC TWO:The Word around Town/She Whom Once I Dreamt Of/You'd Do Me Good/She Grew and She Grew/She's Always Hiding/Look Like a Girl/Third Wheel/Thin-Skinned/Hey, Mrs John/They Should Make a Statue/Move Out/Big Future/Restless/The Power of Woman/Hush Now/Afterglow/Self-Destruction
RECORDED BY David Westlake & Luke Haines
TAPES RESTORED & RECORDINGS MIXED BY Des Lambert
RECORDED 1991
RELEASED 29 October 2012
LABEL/NUMBER Cherry Red CDB RED 535
Small Time was recorded in 1991 as the follow-up to 1990's Disinterest. Luke Haines provides sleevenotes. Not released until 2012, Small Time is "the Servants' second and best album . . . a strange and wonderful thing"; the songs on Small Time are "looser, more mysterious, strange and beautiful, transcending their influence and sounding . . . like nothing else". Haines explains Disinterest's long unavailability: it is "stuck in an irretrievable record company quagmire, where it looks set to remain." CD2 of the set - Hey Hey We're The Manqués - features previously unreleased, alternative versions of the songs.
VARIOUS ARTISTS
Scared To Get Happy: A Story Of Indie-Pop 1980-1989
Compilation 5CD box-set
RELEASED June 2013; reissued 6 August 2021
LABEL Cherry Red CRCDBOX10
5CD compilation of British indie pop in the 1980s. Cherry Red Records claims the collection is "inspired by the Nuggets compilations". CD3 features "Loggerheads" by The Servants.
THE SERVANTS
Small Time / Hey Hey We're The Manqués
2LP Album (gatefold)
SIDE ONE (Small Time): Everybody Has a Dream/Don't Leave Town/People Going Places/Complete Works/Dating Then Waiting/Born to Dance/Motivation/Let's Live a Little
SIDE TWO (Small Time): Aim in Life/Rejection/Fear Eats the Soul/The Thrill of It All/All Talk/Out of Your Life/Slow Dancing
SIDE THREE (Hey Hey We're The Manqués): The Word around Town/She Whom Once I Dreamt Of/You'd Do Me Good/She Grew and She Grew/She's Always Hiding/Hey, Mrs John/Afterglow
SIDE FOUR (Hey Hey We're The Manqués): Look Like a Girl/Third Wheel/Thin-Skinned/They Should Make a Statue/Move Out/Big Future/Restless
LINE-UP David Westlake - vocals & guitar; Luke Haines - guitar, piano & Cat synthesiser;
RECORDED BY David Westlake & Luke Haines
TAPES RESTORED & RECORDINGS MIXED BY Des Lambert
RECORDED 1991
RELEASED 3 December 2013
LABEL/NUMBER CT CT-185
2013 vinyl reissue. Omits six tracks from the original: Born to Dance (2); The Thrill of It All (2); All Talk (2); Out Of Your Life (2); The Power of Woman; Hush Now.
VARIOUS ARTISTS
C86
Compilation 3CD box-set
CD1 - PRIMAL SCREAM: Velocity Girl/MIGHTY LEMON DROPS: Happy Head/SOUP DRAGONS: Pleasantly Surprised/WOLFHOUNDS: Feeling So Strange Again/BODINES: Therese/MIGHTY MIGHTY: Law/STUMP: Buffalo/BOGSHED: Run to the Temple/A WITNESS: Sharpened Sticks/PASTELS: Breaking Lines/AGE OF CHANCE: From Now On,This Will Be Your God/SHOP ASSISTANTS: It's Up To You/CLOSE LOBSTERS: Fire Station Towers/MIAOW: Sport Most Royal/HALF-MAN HALF-BISCUIT: I Hate Nerys Hughes/SERVANTS: Transparent/MACKENZIES: Big Jim/BIG FLAME: New Way/FUZZBOX: Console Me/McCARTHY: Celestial City/SHRUBS: Bullfighter's Bones/WEDDING PRESENT: This Boy Can Wait CD2 - JUNE BRIDES: Just the Same/YEAH YEAH NOH: Another Side to Mrs Quill/PRIMITIVES: Lazy/JESSE GARON & THE DESPERADOES: Splashing Along/BAND OF HOLY JOY: Rosemary Smith/McTELLS: Virginia MC/BMX BANDITS: E102/ONE THOUSAND VIOLINS: Like One Thousand Violins/DENTISTS: Peppermint Dreams/MEMBRANES: Everything's Brilliant/WEATHER PROPHETS: Worm in my Brain/BRILLIANT CORNERS: Meet Me on Tuesdays/TALULAH GOSH: I Told You So/PIGBROS: Hedonist Hat/14 ICED BEARS: Inside/ST CHRISTOPHER: Go Ahead, Cry/GROOVE FARM: Captain Fantastic/KILGORE TROUT: The Peacock Nose/JESUS AND MARY CHAIN: Inside Me/HIT PARADE: You Didn't Love Me Then/THAT PETROL EMOTION: Mine/TURNCOATS: One Breath/A RIOT OF COLOUR: Skink/PAUL GROOVY & THE POP ART EXPERIENCE: Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out/RAILWAY CHILDREN: Darkness and Colour CD3 - CHESTERFIELDS: Sweet Revenge/JASMINE MINKS: World's No Place/STITCHED: Why/RAZORCUTS: Sad Kaleidoscope/TREEBOUND STORY: I REmember/NIGHTINGALES: Part-time Moral England/EPISODE FOUR: Strike up Matches/AVONS: Everything's Going Right/MEAT WHIPLASH: Here it Comes/KING OF THE SLUMS: Spider Psychiatry/HAPPY MONDAYS: Freaky Dancin'/BIFF BANG POW: Love's Going Out of Fashion/BLUE AEROPLANES: Outback Jazz/LAWRENCE & THE COMFORTABLE SOCIETY: Heartache/LAUGH: Take Your Time, Yeah/NORTH OF CORNWALLIS: Billy Liar/POP WILL EAT ITSELF: Mesmerised/BENNY PROFANE: Hang Fire/GO! SERVICE: Real Life/JANITORS: Good to be King/CLAIM: Gullible's Travels/AUCTIONEERS: Scoop/ON: Perfect Cockney Hard/LOVE ACT: Hep Clothes/ENORMOUS ROOM: I Don't Need You
RELEASED 9 June 2014
LABEL Cherry Red CRCDBOX12
David Westlake played at the NME C86 show on Saturday 14 June 2014 at Venue 229, London W1. The gig coincided with Cherry Red's reissue of C86. The Wedding Present headlined. Westlake and The Wedding Present played on the same bill in the original C86 week of ICA gigs, 23 July 1986.
VARIOUS ARTISTS
C87
Compilation 3CD box-set
CD2/16 - DAVID WESTLAKE: The Word Around Town
PRODUCER Paul Gadd
RELEASED ?
LABEL Cherry Red
Retrospectively compiled sequel to C86. C87 features "The Word Around Town" by David Westlake. (The Servants' recording of "The Word Around Town" is on Hey Hey We're The Manqués.)
DAVID WESTLAKE Play Dusty For Me
Vinyl LP
SIDE ONE: Play Dusty For Me/Song For John/Back On Track/An Ocean Away/Say When/I Can't Give You The Life You Want/The Lonely City
SIDE TWO: Life On The Edge/I Die For Love/My Ice Queen/Nowhere Days/Stupid Love/Life Goes On
RECORDED BY Cormac Moore
MIXED BY Willis Moore
RELEASED 27 November 2015
LABEL/NUMBER CT CT-220
2015 vinyl reissue of the 2002 album. Omits three tracks from the original: Patience; Even If; Hi You.
THE SERVANTS The Sun, A Small Star
7" EP
SONGS The Sun, A Small Star/Meredith/It Takes No Gentleman/Funny Business
PRODUCER Richard Preston
STUDIO Elephant, Wapping Wharf, London
RECORDED 8 August 1986
RELEASED 13 May 2019
LABEL/NUMBER Optic Nerve ON8
Reissue, on yellow vinyl 7" (the 1986 release was 12" only). A cover-version of "The Sun, A Small Star" featured in Emma Forrest's 2018 film Untogether (starring: Billy Crystal, Jennifer Grey, Jamie Dornan).
THE SERVANTS She's Always Hiding
7" Single
SONGS She's Always Hiding/Loggerheads/She's Always Hiding (1985)
PRODUCER Richard Preston; 1985 b-side recording: Adrian Borland
STUDIO Alvic, Baron's Court, London (A-side); Elephant, Wapping Wharf, London (1985 recording)
RECORDED 31 January 1986 (A-side); 21 September 1985 (1985 recording)
RELEASED 30 April 2021
LABEL/NUMBER Optic Nerve ON310
A-side reissue, on clear/blue vinyl. 1985 recording of "She's Always Hiding" produced by Adrian Borland of The Sound, who adds a piano part. The 1985 recording features original Servants drummer Eamon Lynam, whom Westlake knew from school. The single reached number 35 in the UK Vinyl Singles Chart, w/c 21 May 2021.
DAVID WESTLAKE My Beautiful England
Album (LP/CD/digital)
SIDE ONE: My Beautiful England/War Memorial/The Modern Ruins of Old London Town/Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood/Mallory Kept Climbing the Mountain/E is for the Empire
SIDE TWO: Hayes, Middlesex/English Parish Churches/Regency Terrace/Marie Lloyd/The Crusades/The Age of Unenlightenment/General Gordon's Last Stand/Au Contraire, Tony Blair
PRODUCED BY Des Lambert
RECORDED IN Witney, Camden, Lewisham, Harrow and Exeter
RELEASED 14 October 2022
LABEL/NUMBER Tiny Global Productions PICI-0038-LP / PICI-0038-CD
Writing for Louder Than War (19 October 2022), Neil Davenport says: "It's an extraordinary record, a contemporary update on George Orwell's critiques of left intelligentsia found in England Your England (1941). It features a much deeper level of critical commentary than anywhere else right now." Line-up: David Westlake - vocals & guitar; Luke Haines - guitar; Des Lambert - bass; Rob Flanagan - drums; Dwain Bedford - trumpet. Tiny Global Bandcamp orders issued with a lyric booklet.
DAVID WESTLAKE D87
Album (LP/CD/digital)
SIDE ONE: The Word Around Town/She Grew And She Grew/Rings On Her Fingers/Talk Like That/Dream Come True/Everlasting
SIDE TWO: Faithful to 3 Lovers (BBC)/Everlasting (BBC)/The Word Around Town (BBC)/Dream Come True (BBC)/Take Me To Your Heart (demo)/Never Grow Up (demo)
PRODUCERS 1-6 Paul Gadd & Steve Nunn; 7-10: Barry Andrews & Peter Watts
RECORDED 1-6: Greenhouse, London; 7-10: BBC Maida Vale, London
RELEASED 25 August 2023
LABEL/NUMBER Optic Nerve Recordings OPT4.054 / OPT4.054.CD
Expanded reissue of the 1987 mini-album Westlake, re-titled D87. Includes the four-song BBC Radio 1 session recorded in 1987, and two demos.