Penetration Concert History

1.Penetration was a punk band formed in late 1976, coming from Ferryhill, near Durham, England. The original line-up was Pauline Murray (vocals), Gary Chaplin (guitar), Robert Blamire (bass) and Gary Smallman (drums). Their first single was "Don't Dictate", released in November 1977.

Penetration Tours & Concerts (Updated for 2024)

Date Concert Venue Location
Nov 18, 2024
Penetration Concorde 2 Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Nov 17, 2024
Penetration Islington Assembly Hall London, England, United Kingdom
Nov 15, 2024
Penetration O2 Institute Birmingham Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Nov 14, 2024
Penetration Gorilla Manchester, England, United Kingdom
May 23, 2024 –
May 26, 2024
Bearded Theory Festival 2024
Jane's Addiction / Future Islands / Dinosaur Jr. / Orbital / The Orb / Sleaford Mods / Amyl and the Sniffers / Utah Saints / 808 state / Jane Weaver / Roni Size / New Model Army / Gentleman's Dub Club / Ibibio Sound Machine / Beans on Toast / Pip Blom / BDRMM / Bis / Wargasm / Bob Vylan / The March Violets / System 7 / Sonic Boom Six / [Spunge] / Punk Rock Factory / Green Lung / SPRINTS / Ferocious Dog / English Teacher / Peat and Diesel / Panic Shack / Jim Bob / 3 Daft Monkeys / The Bar Stool Preachers / Hotwax / Liines / Full Flower Moon Band / Katie Malco / Bar-Steward Sons of Val Doonican / The Meffs / Girl Scout / big special / Trout / Problem Patterns / His Lordship / Jess Silk / Emma O'Reilly / Ed Tudor Pole / Divorce (UK) / Dryadic / The Busketeers / RHG Music / Pet Needs - Convoy / Pet Needs - Pallet / Pet Needs - Rum Bus / Bez / Leeroy Thornhill (X-Prodigy) / Bodega - Dylan cover set / Grandma's House / Battlesnake / Beatles Dub Club / The High Points / Soft Play (fka Slaves) / Son Of Jim / The Big Band Of Boom / The Mighty Flux / Barefoot Bandit / Hot Tramp / Brad Dear / Randy Pandy Hand Shandy Band / Chrome & Illinspired / Dj From london / Veeblefetzer / Klonk / Shanghai Treason / The Cain Pit / Project Mork / Emma O'Reilly / Common Culture / Thy Last Drop / Old Time Sailors / Punch The Sky / Alice Wicks / One Eyed King / Nick Parker / Brewer's Daughter / My Mate Dave / The Lunar Trixies / Flo And The Escape Lane / I, Doris / Tarantism / Headmix / Muddy Summers & the Dirty Field Whores / Katie Paton / POG / Attila the Stockbroker / Star Botherers / Common Culture / Steve White & The Protest Family / Abdoujaparov / Interrobang!? / Irie Fire / Dead Anyway / Dexys / Lambrini Girls / omega nebula / Bentley Rhythm Ace / Fidget And The Twitchers / Penetration / OneDa / The Big Moon / Ist Ist / Chameleons / Therapy? / Goat Girl / BC Camplight / Orbital Dj / Bodega / Dry Cleaning / Les Savy Fav / Baxter Dury / Steve Davis & Kavus Torabi / Do Nothing / Marika Hackman Show all bands
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Catton Hall Walton-on-Trent, UK
Aug 03, 2023 –
Aug 06, 2023
Rebellion Festival 2023
16 Guns / 18 Fevers / 1983 / A Void / Ambition Demolition / Antagonizers ATL / Anti Nowhere League / The Attack / Attila the Stockbroker / Ausgang / Bad Manners / Bad Skin / Bar Stool Preachers / Bastard Squad / The Battery Farm / Beans on Toast / Big Country / Billyclub / Bite Me / Black Eddy / Black September / Blue Carpet Band / Blyth Power / Bob Vylan / Boggy Formby / Borrowed Time / The Briefs / Brix Smith / Cassie Fox / Cat and the Underdogs / Chaotic Dischord / Charlie Harper / Charred Hearts / Cheap Sex / Cherry & Peesh / Cherrym / The Chisel / Choked / Chub / Chubby and the Gang / Citizen Fish / Cock Sparrer / Clockwork Psycho / Colera / Conflict / Contempt / Contiental Lovers / Corrupted Youth / Coughin Vicars / Country Moans / Crisis / Culture Shock / The Cundeez / D.R.I. / Daffodildos / Dakka Skanks / Damh The Bard / Dangerous Dave and the Side Effects / Dave Sharp / David Delinquent and The I.O.U.S / Dayglo Abortions / Dead 77 / Dead City Rebels / Dead Fish / Dead Sheeran / Deadbeat At Dawn / DeeCracks / The DeRellas / Desperate Measures / The Dickies / Die Toten Hosen / The Dinz / Dirt Box Disco / DOA / Doug and the Slugz / Dragster / The Drowns / Dummy Toys / Duncan Reid & The Big Heads / Duncan Reid / Eastfield / Eater / Electric Press / Emily Flea / Erection / Eryx London / Evil Blizzard / The Exploited / The Fauves / Ferocious Dog / Filhos De Inacio / Fire Exit / Flores Y Fuego / FMA + 12 Gage / Foreign Legion / Fractured / Frenzy / The FU's / Gang Green / Gaye Bykers On Acid / The Generators / Ghost Dance / Gimpfist / Girls Like Us / Good Riddance / Grant Sharkey / Grito! / Hagar The Womb / Harbour Rebels / The Headlines / Headsticks / Healthy Junkiesd / Helen McCookerybook / Hellcity / Henry Cluney / Henry Rollins / Henshaw / Hi-Fi Spitfires / HR-Bad Brains / The Human Error / Hung Like Hanratty / I, Doris / Iconoclasts / Icons Of Filth / Il Complesso / In Evil Hour / The Insane / Instant Agony / Jess Raising Ravens / Jess Silk / Jessie Eastfield / Jo Jo & The Teeth / Joey Shithead / John E Vistic Rock N Roll Soundsystem / Jonny Robson / Kaleko Urdangak / Kerosin / Kicked in The Teeth / Kid Kapichi / Kings Alias / Knock Off / Knuckleheadz / Lambrini Girls / Last Tree Squad / Le Rox / Long Tall Texans / Loose Articles / Los Fastidios / Lost Cherrees / Lumpen / M.D.C. / Mannequin Death Squad / Mauri Clash / Max Splodge / The Meffs / Menace / Menace - A Tribute to Finn / Meryl Streek / The Meteors / Mick Rossi / Mick Rossi's Gun St / Midwich Cuckoos / Millie Manders and The Shutup / Millie Manders [Solo] / Millions of Dead Cowboys / Minatore / Misconduct / Muddy Summers & The DFWs / Murphy's Law / Narcoleptic Youth / Neville Staple / New Model Army / The Nightingales / The Nilz / No Consent / Noah And The Loners / Noogy / Nxb0dies / The Only Ones / Oorya / Opus Kink / The Outcasts / The Pack / Paranoid Visions / The Pawns / Pegboy / Penetration / Penny Blood / PET NEEDS / Pete Bentham & The Dinner Ladies / Picture Frame Seduction / Pinhead Larry / Pirates of the Pubs / Pizzatramp / The Platitudes / Popes Of Chillitown / Problem Patterns / Protex / Public Serpents / Pulley / Raising Ravens / The Ramonas / The Ramstampits / Rat Boy / Raw Power / Razors / Red Bricks / Red London / Redeemon / Redlightz / Reno Divorce / Republica / Resistance 77 / The Restarts / The Rezillos / Riskee and the Ridiculue / Rites Of Hadda / Rubella Ballet / The Ruffianz / Rum Lad / Rumkicks / Ruts DC / Sak! / Sally Pepper / Screaming Dead / Sensa Yuma / The Shit Talkers / Sidekick / Simon & Gizzbutt / Skinny Lister / The Slackers / Slackrr / Slady / Slice of Life / Sloppy Seconds / Slow Faction / Sluggers 3 / Smoking Gives You Big Tits / Social Experiment / Sodaskapur / Spectrum 4 / Spizz Energi / Splodgenessabounds / The Sporadics / Spunk Volcano & The Eruptions / Static Kill / Steel Pulse / Steve Ignorant / Steve Lake / The Stitches / Subhumans / Sveltanas / The Swindells / T-Bitch / T.S.O.L. / Tape it Shut / Tear Up / Teenage Bottlerocket / Thee Acid Tongue / Tits Up / Tokky Horror / Toxic Reasons / Turtles Jr / TV Smith / TV Smith & Friends / TV Smith & Paranoid Visions / TV Smith & The Bored Teenagers / U.K. Subs / the vapors / Vic Ruggerio / Viki Vortex & The Cumshots / Virus / Voodoo Glow Skulls / The Wasps / Wasted Youth / Welch Boys / Wolfpack / The Young Ones / Yer Mum / Zen Baseball Bat / Zero Tolerance / The Zipz / Zounds Show all bands
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Winter Gardens Blackpool, England, United Kingdom
Oct 26, 2022
Penetration / Eryx London The Crescent York, England, United Kingdom
Oct 06, 2019
HRH Punk 2019 Sunday
Sham 69 / Penetration / Skaciety / Peter & The Test Tube Babies / Chelsea / Vice Squad / Anti Pasti / TV Smith / Desperate Measures
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Sheffield Academy Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Jun 21, 2019
Buzzcocks a celebration of the life of Pete Shelley with special guests
Buzzcocks / Skids / Penetration / Captain Sensible / Peter Perrett / Dave Vanian / Thurston Moore / Tim Burgess
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Royal Albert Hall London, England, United Kingdom
Show Duplicate for Jun 21, 2019
Jun 30, 2018
North West Calling / Duncan Reid / Heavy Drapes / The Adicts / Duncan Reid and the Big Heads / Dirt Box Disco / Wonk Unit / Angelic Upstarts / In Evil Hour / Sham 69 / Ruts DC / GBH / Peter And The Test Tube Babies / Penetration O2 Ritz Manchester Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Nov 16, 2017
Penetration O2 Academy Birmingham Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Nov 11, 2017
Penetration / Morgellons The Hairy Dog Derby, England, United Kingdom
Nov 10, 2017
Penetration / 3 Dat Weekend / The Distractions

Penetration

The Continental Preston, England, United Kingdom
Nov 04, 2017
Penetration The Cluny Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Nov 26, 2016
The Damned / Penetration
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O2 Academy Brixton London, England, United Kingdom
Aug 04, 2016 –
Aug 07, 2016
Rebellion Festival 2016
Lion's Law / FLAG / Stiff Little Fingers / Descendents / Cock Sparrer / Cockney Rejects / The Old Firm Casuals / Paranoid Visions / Buzzcocks / CJ Ramone / Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine / Dag Nasty / Resistance 77 / Anti-Nowhere League / Colt 45 / Attila the Stockbroker / Discharge / Penetration / Louise Distras / Clowns / Healthy Junkies / Vice Squad / Big D And The Kids Table / Kiss My Acid / Dirt Box Disco / Geoffrey Oi!cott / The Poly-esters / Pussycat Kill / Besserbitch / Abrasive Wheels / The Pukes / Knock Off / Blatoidea / Brassick / Headstone Horrors / Lost Cherrees / The Ramonas / Contempt / Maid of Ace / Loaded 44 / Bratakus / Bishops Green / Spirit Bomb / Spunk Volcano And The Eruptions / Anti-Social / City Saints / Harrington Saints / Newtown Neurotics / The Bar Stool Preachers / Rather Racoon / Criminal Mind / Bonsai Kitten / Svetlanas / The Bouncing Souls / Booze & Glory Show all bands
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Winter Gardens Blackpool, England, United Kingdom
Jun 04, 2016
Camden Rocks Festival 2016
Escape the Fate / The Cribs / Billy Bragg / Yuck / Young Guns / Cub Sport / Zebrahead / Norma Jean / New Years Day / The Qemists / We Are the Ocean / The Virginmarys / GUN / CREEPER / The Godfathers / Yonaka / SikTh / The Algorithm / Carl Barât / InMe / Yashin / Sonic Boom Six / Reckless Love / Black Foxxes / Youth Club / Hotel Mira / Black Spiders / The Bulletproof Bomb / Vukovi / The Dirty Youth / Tellison / Dorje / Room 94 / Francobollo / Fort Hope / SHVPES / Blood Youth / Carl Barât & The Jackals / As Lions / Warrior Soul / Victoria / The Graveltones / The Tuts / Asylums / Fizzy Blood / Forever Never / Evil Scarecrow / Deadcuts / Palm Reader / Ginger Wildheart / The Kings Parade / Queen Kwong / Press To Meco / CC Smugglers / Hands Off Gretel / Youth Killed It / Oh Boy / Nova Twins / Continents / Heck / The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing / Amaryllis / Jim Jones and the Righteous Mind / Cameron Sanderson / Franko Fraize / Freeze the Atlantic / The Carnabys / As December falls / The Amorettes / Scholars / Counting Days / The Lounge Kittens / wars / October Drift / Vodun / False Heads / IV / Wearing Scars / Grumble Bee / Glen Matlock / The Step / Sisteray / Cope / Reigning Days / Create To Inspire / Cold In Berlin / Cruel Hearts Club / Zoax / Florence Black / Witterquick / Ashestoangels / The Kut / Louise Distras / Kenneths / Bad Sign / Dirty Thrills / Black Casino & the Ghost / The RPMS / Oxygen Thief / Goldray / Rumble Fish / Coquin Migale / Sky Valley Mistress / Chasing Cadence / Bare Knuckle Parade / Them&Us / The Hyena Kill / Millie Manders and The Shutup / Samoans / Dana Immanuel / Piano Wire / Mystified / FAERS / Roxanne de Bastion / This Be the Verse / OhBoy! / Damn Dice / Naked Six / Lon-G / The Ghost Riders In The Sky / Stoneghost / Mercutio / The Main Grains / Suzie Stapleton / Peckham Cowboys / The DeRellas / Role Models / Brightlight City / Nine Miles South / Devience / Matty James Cassidy / Pretend Happy / Apeman Spaceman / Five By Five / Callow Saints / One Man Boycott / Dana Immanuel & The Stolen Band / 48hours / Reverted / Suburban Symphony / The Novellas / Saint Leonard / Lost Gravity / Electric Child House / Leisure Tank / Young Native / Drones (UK) / Thunder on the Left / Staring Out The Sun / Adam Double / The Scruff Club / Vivien Glass / Brawlers (Leeds) / Hoodoo Daze / Alive With Eyes / Leika / Starsha Lee / The Dirty Mojos / AvaGrace / Komodo (UK) / The Hell (UK) / Jolanga / Black rose Cadillac / Chinese Missy / Anita Chellamah / M O S E S / Nash Albert / L'Anima / Falling Knives / Zoe West / The Pearl Hearts / Vaduz / My Deadly Secret / Nibbinz / Barcreeps / Party Blinders / Raleigh Rye / Fathoms Uk / The Sovereign (UK) / Critics (UK) / Sons (UK) / Heel (London) / S.E.X. (UK) / Shea (UK) / Shields (Leeds) / Penetration Show all bands
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Camden Rocks Festival London, England, United Kingdom
Aug 09, 2014
Rebellion 2014 - Day 3 of 4
Gimp Fist / A-Heads / Menace / 999 / Lost Cherrees / Crashed Out / Vice Squad / Sensa Yuma / Eastfield / Evil Conduct / Hard Skin / Dirtbox Disco / Peter & The Test Tube Babies / Cult Maniax / Penetration / Alternative TV / Ruts DC (Acoustic) / John Otway / UK Subs / Subhumans / Drongos For Europe / UK Decay / Steve Ignorant & Paranoid Visions / The Lurkers / Spizz Energi / Jaya The Cat Show all bands
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Blackpool Winter Gardens Blackpool, England, United Kingdom
May 04, 2014
Buzzcocks / Penetration / UK Subs / Dead By Dawn / Ed Tudor Pole / Too Spicy / Alta Vida / Vice Squad / Drongos For Europe / Underline Hero
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NX Newcastle Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Mar 28, 2014
Penetration / The Reverends / The Mighty Kahunas
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The Hairy Dog Derby, England, United Kingdom

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Penetration on Jun 15, 1979 [630-small]

Penetration
Jun 15, 1979
 West Hollywood, California, United States
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Buzzcocks a celebration of the life of Pete Shelley with special guests on Jun 21, 2019 [372-small]

Buzzcocks a celebration of the life of Pete Shelley with special guests
Jun 21, 2019
 London, England, United Kingdom
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Buzzcocks a celebration of the life of Pete Shelley with special guests on Jun 21, 2019 [371-small]

Buzzcocks a celebration of the life of Pete Shelley with special guests
Jun 21, 2019
 London, England, United Kingdom
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Reading Rock Festival 1978 on Aug 25, 1978 [600-small]

Reading Rock Festival 1978
Aug 25 - 27, 1978
 Reading, England, United Kingdom
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Reading Rock Festival 1978 on Aug 25, 1978 [493-small]

Reading Rock Festival 1978
Aug 25 - 27, 1978
 Reading, England, United Kingdom
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Reading Rock Festival 1978 on Aug 25, 1978 [492-small]

Reading Rock Festival 1978
Aug 25 - 27, 1978
 Reading, England, United Kingdom
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Rory Gallagher / Penetration on Oct 25, 1978 [216-small]

Rory Gallagher / Penetration
Oct 25, 1978
 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Buzzcocks a celebration of the life of Pete Shelley with special guests on Jun 21, 2019 [956-small]

Buzzcocks a celebration of the life of Pete Shelley with special guests
Jun 21, 2019
 London, England, United Kingdom
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  1. Future Daze
  2. Life's a Gamble
  3. Lovers of Outrage
  4. Movement
  5. Free Money
  6. Don't Dictate
  7. Come Into the Open
  8. Nostalgia
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