The Shapes has been played on NTS shows including Yesterday's News, with Wot's For Lunch Mum? (Not Beans Again!) first played on 6 September 2016.

The Shapes released their "Part Of The Furniture" EP in 1979, which contained such memorable tracks as "Wot's For Lunch, Mum? (Not Beans Again)" and "(I Saw) Batman (In The Launderette)". They recorded a session for John Peel's BBC Radio One show, and played gigs supporting The Killjoys, The Cure and The Fall. After releasing their second single "Airline Disaster" b/w "Blast Off!" on Terri Hooley's Belfast-based label Good Vibrations, they self-imploded. However, John Esplen persuaded them to release "Songs For Sensible People" on Overground Records in 1998 , and in 2007, US label/Chuck Warner Hyped2Death included "(I Saw) Batman (In The Launderette)" on Messthetics # 103.