 Mooney had previously been a bassist of Adam and the Ants.She made a cameo appearance in Derek Jarman's debut film "Sebastiane", and played the lead role in his follow-up film "Jubilee" as the punk "anti-historian" Amyl Nitrate (named after the drug amyl nitrite).She can also be seen in Julien Temple's "The Great Rock and Roll Swindle" wearing an "Only anarchists are pretty" t-shirt and appearing on stage with the Sex Pistols during their first live television performance of "Anarchy in the U.K." in August 1976.