excerpt from "Punk Lost & Found" Source: Punk Lost & Found CD booklet Date: 1996 Author: George Gimarc Copywrite: © Shanachie 1995 . . . The Nips (originally called the Nipple Erectors) was the first band for future Pogues' vocalist Shane MacGowan. Shane was always a fixture in the London punk scene from it's earliest days. You can see him pogo dancing in the opening footage of "The Punk Rock Movie" in a union jack jacket. The Nips cut a few singles (each one a totally different style from the last) and a full album. This song, "Gabrielle", is from October of '79 and one of their best. Along with Shane in the Pogues was Phil Chevron, who begain in an Irish group called The Radiators From Space . . .