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.

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Penetration Tours & Concerts (Updated for 2026)

Date Concert Venue Location
Aug 08, 2026
Upcoming
Penetration

Rebellion Festival

Winter Gardens Blackpool, England, United Kingdom
Jul 31, 2026
Upcoming
Penetration The Grove Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Mar 25, 2026
Penetration Holy Diver New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Nov 07, 2025
Penetration Firehouse Community Arts Center Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Apr 13, 2025
Levellers / New Model Army / Frank Turner / Penetration / Lockheed Lindsey

A Concert For Ant

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O2 City Hall Newcastle Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Nov 18, 2024
Penetration Concorde 2 Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Nov 17, 2024
Penetration
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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
Nov 13, 2024
Penetration / Essential Logic
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G2, The Garage Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
May 26, 2024
Penetration

Bearded Theory

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Catton Hall and Gardens Walton upon Trent, 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 / 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 / The Chameleons / Therapy? / Goat Girl / BC Camplight / Orbital Dj / Bodega / Dry Cleaning / Les Savy Fav / Baxter Dury / Steve Davis & Kavus Torabi / Do Nothing / Marika Hackman / WARGASM Show all bands
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Catton Hall Walton upon Trent, England, United Kingdom
Sep 19, 2023
Pauline Murray / Penetration Rough Trade Nottingham Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
Aug 03, 2023
Rebellion Festival 2023 Day 1
The Meffs / Good Riddance / Cherym / Culture Shock / Penetration / Dead Fish / Cock Sparrer / Problem Patterns
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Winter Gardens Blackpool, England, United Kingdom
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
Nov 05, 2022
Penetration
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O2 Academy Birmingham Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Nov 04, 2022
The Damned / Penetration
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O2 Academy Glasgow Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Nov 03, 2022
The Damned / Penetration / TV Smith & The Bored Teenagers

The Damned @ O2 Apollo Manchester

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O2 Apollo Manchester Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Oct 27, 2022
Penetration Pop Recs Sunderland, England, United Kingdom
Oct 26, 2022
Penetration / Eryx London The Crescent York, England, United Kingdom
Oct 19, 2019
Penetration Audio Glasgow Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

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Nov 17, 2024
 London, England, United Kingdom
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Penetration / Mike Krol / The Yalla Yallas on Apr 26, 2019 [514-small]

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Apr 26, 2019
 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Gruppo Sportivo Reading 1978, Reading Rock Festival 1978 on Aug 25, 1978 [968-small]

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Reading Rock Festival 1978
Aug 25 - 27, 1978
 Reading, England, United Kingdom
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Reading Rock Festival 1978
Aug 25 - 27, 1978
 Reading, England, United Kingdom
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Reading Rock Festival 1978
Aug 25 - 27, 1978
 Reading, England, United Kingdom
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Reading Rock Festival 1978
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 Reading, England, United Kingdom
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Reading Rock Festival 1978
Aug 25 - 27, 1978
 Reading, England, United Kingdom
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Reading Rock Festival 1978
Aug 25 - 27, 1978
 Reading, England, United Kingdom
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Aug 25 - 27, 1978
 Reading, England, United Kingdom
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Genres:

Punk
British
Post-Punk
Punk Rock
New Wave
Female Vocalists
Proto-Punk
Riot Grrrl
Pub Rock
UK Post-Punk
Deep Punk Rock
British Punk
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Latest Setlist (11/17/2024):

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  1. Future Daze
  2. Life's a Gamble
  3. Lovers of Outrage
  4. Vision
  5. Silent Community
  6. Stone Heroes
  7. Movement
  8. Too Many Friends
  9. Reunion
  10. Nostalgia
  11. Free Money
  12. Don't Dictate
  13. Firing Squad
  14. Danger Signs
  15. Come Into the Open
  16. Makes No Sense
  17. Beat Goes On
  18. Shake Some Action
  19. Calm Before the Storm
  20. She Is the Slave
  21. Shout Above the Noise

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Concerts Per Year:

2026 3 concerts
2025 2 concerts
2024 7 concerts
2023 2 concerts
2022 5 concerts
2019 12 concerts
2018 1 concert
2017 13 concerts
2016 12 concerts
2015 5 concerts
2014 15 concerts
2013 1 concert
2012 12 concerts
2010 16 concerts
2009 8 concerts
2008 4 concerts
2007 6 concerts
2006 1 concert
2005 2 concerts
2003 3 concerts
2002 4 concerts
1979 31 concerts
1978 30 concerts
1977 10 concerts
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