North East original punks Penetration return to The Concorde to wrap up a short UK tour, which includes a full performance of their debut album ‘Moving Targets’, along with other classics from their lengthy career.
This will be the first headline tour for the band, known for such legendary singles as ‘Don’t Dictate’, ‘Firing Squad’, ‘Come Into The Open’ and ‘Beat Goes On’, since promoting their critically acclaimed third album, ‘Resolution’, in 2015.
The tour will cap a very active year for Penetration who, following the success of Pauline Murray’s detailed and enlightening autobiography Life’s A Gamble and the ‘Evening With’ tour that accompanied it, are releasing a new recording of ‘Moving Targets’ to accompany the dates. ‘MOVING TARGETS RE:CALIBRATED, LIVE AT POLESTAR’, is a fresh take on the classic LP, recorded live in their Newcastle studio in 2007, and mixed this year by Robert and Alex Blamire. A limited edition vinyl release went on pre-order in August at www.paulinemurrayx.com/shop with the album available on streaming platforms from 1st November.
Earlier this year Penetration performed an incendiary career spanning set at Bearded Theory festival in Derbyshire, their first appearance at a major outdoor festival since taking the Reading Festival by storm in 1978. The band are currently in the studio working on new material with plans for a brand new record in the coming months.
You’ll want to get there early as Essential Logic is supporting. Lora Logic, who famously provided sax on X-Ray Spex’s ‘Oh Bondage! Up Yours! and played with Kollaa Kestää, The Stranglers, The Raincoats and Swell Maps, still leads the band.
They released ‘Land Of Kali’, their first album in 43 years in 2022.
Penetration with Essential Logic play Concorde 2 on Monday 18th November. Tickets are available here.
