The Servants

The cruel irony of the Servants' brief career is that most members of the band enjoyed some level of Brit-pop success, with the exception of singer/songwriter David Westlake. One of the few bands retroactively tied to the so-called C-86 wing of guitar-based British indie bands who actually appeared on the New Musical Express C86 cassette sampler, the Servants were a talented band done in by lineup shifts and bad luck with record companies. The Servants were formed in London in 1985 by the teenage Westlake, whose ads in the music papers' classifieds brought in guitarist John Mo...