Amoeba Music

By Oliver Hall

Penetration has the most audible American (i.e. New York) punk influence of the early English punk bands, unless you count the Only Ones.  Penetration formed in Ferryhill, County Durham in northern England in 1976, taking their name from the Iggy and the Stooges song.  “Well before I actually saw the Sex Pistols (in Northallerton Yorkshire),” singer Pauline Murray told BBC in 2006, “there was a lot of American stuff making its way here; like the Ramones, Blondie, Jonathan Richman, the Runaways, Television, Patti Smith.  Some of which had a very strange sound to it.”  The tone of Murray’s voice somewhat resembles that of Poly Styrene’s of X-Ray Spex, with more rasp... Read More

Genre:

Rock, Punk

City Of Origin:

Durham, England

Formed Date:

1976