Bitches Sin were assembled from the remnants of several defunct pub rock bands in the early part of 1980, and initially featured vocalist Alan "Cocky" Cockburn, guitar-playing siblings Ian and Pete Toomey, bassist Perry Hodder, and drummer Bill Knowles. Interestingly, rather than fighting for attention with the countless other NWOBHM bands clogging the live circuit, Bitches Sin focused on recording instead, and thus, by August of that year, they were already shopping a surprisingly accomplished seven-song cassette demo entitled Twelve Pounds and No Kinks to interested record labels and radio stations.