[2] The first single, "Violence Grows", garnered some press attention and was given positive reviews by the British music paper Sounds.
[3] After the 1979 breakup of the Fatal Microbes, and a stint in a juvenile detention facility that garnered more press attention, Bane began a collaboration with Crass,[2] while she was on the run from the Social Services after serving a sentence at the St. Charles Youth Treatment Centre in Essex.
[2] The following year, Bane released her debut solo single, "Guilty",[2] and sang vocals for Killing Joke on "What's the Matter" during a February 1980 gig at London's Venue club.
[2] In 1982, she appeared in the play Demonstration of Affection by Chris Ward opposite Richard Jobson of The Skids at London's Arts Theatre.
Bane played the role of Molly and the film centred on the lives of young women incarcerated in a British girls' borstal.
In 2008, Bane appeared in a role in the Chris Ward written and directed short film, What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor, based on the life of artist/model Nina Hamnett, self-styled "Queen of Bohemia", starring Siobhan Fahey (ex-singer with Bananarama and Shakespears Sister), actor Clive Arrindel and Donny Tourette (frontman with punk band Towers of London).
The following year, Bane participated in Record Store Day UK, with an exclusive coloured 12 inch repressing of her Violence Grows single, which is released on 22 April 2023.