Embryonic SDC

Around March 1981 David Burrows (Buzz) joined the now unnamed band, he had been in another Bradford based group called God and the Demi-Gods and had been playing guitar for several years.
The three of them rehearsed in the cellar writing new material including the song Vivisection. This line up lasted for almost two months until they enrolled (or he enrolled himself, depending on who is telling the story) singer Ian Lindsey.
Ian had recently moved into the communal house after travelling around the country following the Crass / Poison Girls tour. The tour had finished in Bradford leaving Ian homeless and directionless.
Rumour had it that he was an unsuccessful “pick up” by Steven wells, who was also living at the New Cross address. “Ian bored him telling him his life story and the next day and Joolz felt sorry for him and said that he could stay a while. So he stayed a while!”
Joolz convinced him that he should do something with his life and suggested singing with the band that were playing in the basement, Buzz thought that he would look good as a singer and invited him to rehearse with them.
Barry and Aky thought that he was dreadful, but Ian decided that he liked the idea of being in the band and continued to invite himself to their rehearsals.
Ian had already had some limited experience of playing in bands after a short stint with a Liverpool group called Send No Flowers, but this venture barely lasted a few rehearsals before Ian moved to Belfast where he had started his own group called Children of Lust where they had rehearsed a considerable amount before Ian moved back to England where he found himself on the Poison Girls tour.
The name Southern Death Cult was Ian’s suggestion which Barry and Buzz hated, but Ian and Aky were quite fond of and as no other name was in the pipeline, the name was used for their first show almost two months after Ian’s “audition”