PENETRATION

"moving targets"
Year:  1978
Country:  UK
City:  Newcastle
Label:  Virgin
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  14

Time:  40 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Punk Rock

Penetration were amongst the first salvo of groups associated with punk. Inspired by a Sex Pistols performance, they formed in 1976 and the following year released their first single, 'Don't Dictate', on Virgin Records. During the next three years, despite line up changes, they released further singles and their debut album 'Moving Targets'. In 1979 they toured the UK to promote the follow up album, 'Coming Up For Air'. It was to be the major tour that would establish them commercially but at their hometown gig, in Newcastle, singer Pauline Murray announced, "This is the last gig that this line up is ever going to do here... I think everything's got to change after a while". The words didn't make it entirely clear but the subsequent emotional rendition of 'all of their old songs' marked the end of Penetration. They played the rest of the set to fans who were stunned (I was in denial and even now, listening to the recording to get the 'split' quote sent a shiver down my spine).  At the same they were excited to be caught up in a moment of such passion. This was breaking news and would feature heavily in the following week's music papers. Thirty years on, Pauline Murray and Robert Blamire are performing as Penetration again. They meet with Eccentric Sleeve Notes on a rainy day in Kentish Town. Punk Rock.

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"coming up for air"
Year:  1979
Label:  Virgin
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  11
Time:  35 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Punk Rock








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