Shanne..."we really want to play  a lot of different styles. When Shane went through his  rockabilly stage  we were called 'punkabilly ' coz we couldn't play very well."

Shane "... I just want our music to be a lot more physical....I'm sick of basic rock ideas.....We had a go at playing basic R&B but we weren't good enough to play it and its all bollocks anyway."

Shane...."I want to disturb people. I'm really sick of people telling me what a nice fun loving band we are. There'll be no more of all that R&B shit....I've been pissing about too long searching for a direction and now I know what I want to do. In the future I want to play disturbing dance music..."

Shanne..."He (Shane) changes his mind every six months !"

Shane " Trash is what we're really about. I've always lived  around the Soho part of London. The side that's full of pimps , whore and junkies.....there are no records that really capture the trashiness of London."

Shane NME 1979 "The way I see it is that we're coming up to the '80's and somebody's got to save rock'n'roll from all these prats with synthesizers and a university education and it might as well be me!" 

Shane on not singing any of Shanne's songs .." I don't agree with a lot of what she writes about...I write about healthy teenage subjects such as sex and violence and getting pissed. When I was excited in the punk days, I wrote about being bored. Now that I am bored, I write about being excited. It's a rock'n'roll fantasy."

NME, March  22, 1980 The Nips tell Adrian Thrills of their untimely demise.  Shanne reveals:

"We were just sick of each other and I hated the music The Nips were playing. Shane and I weren't communicating. We were just beating each other up all the time."

Shane on Punk.." Nobody knew what  the fuck was going on in those days. I got into the turgid debasement of punk rock in its bad days. I was snorting sulphate, spending money on drinks which were over expensive and missing the bands I was supposed to be watching. It was a load of crap in the end.: The Pistols, Clash, Jam and especially the Damned. They summed up the true punk attitude."

 "The whole scene was extremely elitist. If you walked into a club wearing the wrong thing you'd be laughed out of the fucking place - you'd have to leave the country....The whole point was to be yourself....but in the end there were loads of people walking around with anarchist signs and spiky hair wearing leather jackets"

On the ear biting incident. " All the violence and the heavy drinking and drug taking really happened...I was up at the front at this Clash gig at the ICA and me and this girl (Jane Crockford who later became a Modette) were having a bit of a laugh which involved biting each others arms till they were completely covered in blood and then smashing up a couple of bottles and cutting each other up a bit....that was how teenagers got their kicks in London in 1976 if they were hip...In the end she went a bit over the top and bottled me in the side of the head and gallons of blood came out...(the ear) never got bitten off....but the papers said that I'd had it bitten off"

Gareth Holder from The Shapes recollects.."The Nipple Erectors initially had a guy called Rick Collett drumming for them. He fell out with Shane and moved back to where he came from, lovely Leamington Spa, at which point, he hooked up with The Shapes as a roadie/sound guy. He had a great love of the falling down water and fags, and we didn't realize that he had a heart complaint also. Shane came to see us at Dingwalls, and they had a making up. All very sweet. I was just back in the UK, and learned that Rick's heart condition had finished him off. RIP me old mucker."