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Penetration
UK punk/new wave band
Formed in 1976
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Penetration are a punk rock band from Ferryhill, County Durham, England formed in 1976. They re-formed in 2001 with several new members. Their debut single, "Don't Dictate", is now acknowledged as a classic punk rock single and their debut studio album, Moving Targets (1978), is still widely admired.
The band's lineup was lead singer Pauline Murray, Robert Blamire (bass), Gary Smallman (drums) and Gary Chaplin (guitar). Chaplin left in March 1978 being replaced with Neale Floyd, with second guitarist Fred Purser (later of NWOBHM act Tygers of Pan Tang) joining in July. The band dissolved in late 1979. They reformed in 2001 with original members Murray, Blamire and Smallman, and Steve Wallace and Paul Harvey drafted in as new guitarists.
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Penetration est un groupe de punk rock britannique, originaire de Ferryhill, en Angleterre. Le groupe est formé après avoir assisté à un concert des Sex Pistols à Manchester, nommé d'après une chanson d'Iggy and the Stooges. Le groupe sort deux albums, produits par Virgin, Moving Targets et Coming Up for Air, mais se sépare en 1979.
Leur morceau le plus connu et seul succès commercial est Don't Dictate sorti en 1977. Pauline Murray et Robert Blamire rejoindront The Invisible Girls en 1980 pour l'album Pauline Murray and The Invisible Girls. En 1982, Fred Purser jouera avec le groupe de heavy metal Tygers of Pan Tang sur l'album The Cage.
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Discography
Albums
- 1978 Moving Targets
- 1979 Coming Up for Air
- 2015 Resolution
EPs
- 1983 4 Track EP
Singles
- 1977 Don’t Dictate
- 1978 Firing Squad
- 1978 Life’s a Gamble
- 1979 Danger Signs
- 1979 Come Into the Open
- 2008 Our World
- 2010 The Feeling / Guilty
- 2015 Beat Goes On (radio edit)
- 2015 Just Drifting (radio edit)
- 2017 In the Future
- 2017 Shake Some Action
