Recruited Kenny Morris

The band intended to split up after the gig, but they were asked to play again. Over the next few months, Siouxsie and Severin recruited drummer Kenny Morris and guitarist Peter Fenton. After playing several gigs in early 1977, they realised that Fenton did not fit in because he was “a real rock guitarist”; he was fired on stage in mid-May. John McKay took his place in July. Their first live appearance on television took place in November on Granada Television (based in Manchester ), on Tony Wilson ‘s TV show So It Goes . In that month they also recorded their first John Peel session for BBC radio, in which they premiered a new song, “Metal Postcard”; this introduced a ” motorik austerity” in the drum patterns, along with “space in the sound” and “serrated guitars”. The band described their music as “cold, machine-like and passionate at the same time”. When they appeared on the cover of Sounds magazine, Vivien Goldman wrote: “they sound like a 21st-century industrial plant”.