The Nips
The Nipple Erectors were a punk band from London, the typical in their music '77 punk rock with rockabilly, pop and beat- mixed elements.
History
Nipple Erectors 1976 by the Shanne Bradley ( bass), Roger Towndrow were founded (guitar), Arcane Vendetta ( drummer ) and Shane MacGowan (vocals ), who later gained with the folk - punk band The Pogues world fame. Published in 1978, the Nipple Erectors their debut single, King of the Bop, which was produced by Stan Brennan, MacGowans employer in the Rocks off- record store in Soho and published on Soho Records. Then they shortened their band name to The Nips as it (translated as " the nipples hard doer" ) with the old name in the late 1970s was hard to get gigs.
As a result, the line-up changed frequently, only Shanne Bradley and Shane MacGowan always remained as the core of the group will receive. Among other things, played at the nips later Pogues multi-instrumentalist James Fearnley (guitar) and Jon Moss, later drummer of Culture Club.
Still In 1978, the second nips single All the Time in the World, a year later, the single Gabrielle. Paul Weller of The Jam produced with Happy Song her last single, which was not published until 1981. 1980 also appeared in the live album Only the End of the Beginning. The end of this year, the band broke up; MacGowan formed The New Republicans, from which Pogue Mahone and The Pogues were. Shanne Bradley was bassist of the folk - punk band The Men They Could not Hang. All studio recordings of the band were included in the compilation Bops, Babes, Booze and Bovver 1987.
In 2008, the band came together for two Reunionskonzerten, new material has not been published.