 David J. had already agreed to tour American airbases with another band, but decided that joining his friends' group was "the right thing to do".With their lineup complete, the band played their first gig at the Cromwell pub in Wellingborough on New Year's Eve 1978.The band had chosen the name Bauhaus 1919, a reference to the German Bauhaus art movement of the 1920s, because of its "stylistic implications and associations", according to David J.