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01. David Westlake - The Word Around Town
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02. David Westlake - She Grew and She Grew
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03. David Westlake - Rings on Her Fingers
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04. David Westlake - Talk Like That
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05. David Westlake - Dream Come True
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06. David Westlake - Everlasting
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07. David Westlake - Faithful to 3 Lovers (BBC Session)
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08. David Westlake - Everlasting (BBC Session)
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09. David Westlake - The Word Around Town (BBC Session)
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10. David Westlake - Dream Come True (BBC Session)
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11. David Westlake - Take Me to Your Heart (demo)
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12. David Westlake - Never Grow Up (demo)
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ARTIST
WESTLAKE, DAVID
TITLE
D87
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
OPTIC NERVE
CATALOG #
OPT4 054LP
OPT4 054LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
9/8/2023
LP version. Clear vinyl; printed innersleeve. Expanded version of the 1987 mini-album released on Creation Records. Described as a "minor classic" by
Luke Haines
. Band features Luke Haines,
Martyn Casey
(
The Triffids
,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
) and
Alsy Macdonald
(The Triffids). Includes:
Dave Westlake
's
Westlake
album from 1987; BBC session recorded with members of
The Go-Betweens
plus two studio demos of unused songs. David Westlake's first album finally gets a new day in the sun in the wake of his brilliant current LP
My Beautiful England
. 36 years after it first appeared in 1987 on Creation Records David Westlake formed
The Servants
in 1985, who released two excellent singles and appeared on the NME compiled C86 LP. Searching for a stable Servants line-up to release an album he recruited Luke Haines (
The Auteurs
/
Black Box Recorder
) via an NME advert, who came on board, and stayed for five years. After failing to find a committed rhythm section, he enlisted the help of Martyn Casey and Alsy Macdonald and recorded the 1987
Westlake
album for Creation. Overlooked at the time, the record was later described as a minor classic by Luke Haines himself. It is included here. It also contains the previously unreleased Janice Long BBC session recorded in the summer of 1987 featuring Go-Betweens members
Robert Forster
,
Amanda Brown
, and
Robert Vickers
. 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. Sleeve notes by Luke Haines.
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