New Wave / Old Wave juxtaposition (2 of ??) (Penetration versus Penetration)

 Resuming an early, barely-started series

from 1976 the year of punk

Pauline Murray's dancing here in this Electric Circus clip, is a kind of bodily rhetoric - "these be new times"

You have to feel sorry for performers in those days, the amount of liquids flying at the stage

Pauline has a good piercing strident / stringent voice (a contender inclusion in the category That Voice) but overall Penetration seem Pedestrian 

She was better served with the Invisible Girls 

That album cover could not be more New Wave - the grid

"Invisible Girls" almost calls forth the concept of this song by AC Marias, which seems to be in the same approx lineage

Angela Conway achieves her own unexpected collision of New Wave and Old Wave with a cover of a Canned Heat song

Penetration presumably got the band name from the Iggy and the Stooges song. 

Or perhaps they were just trying to come up with a slightly more clinical take on the Sex Pistols idea.

Well lookee here - a decidedly Old Wave zine from Manchester called Penetration

Surely Suicide does not refer to the band Suicide? 

"Cozmic Vibes"

I'm guessing this issue #14 is circa 1977 when Mahogany Rush played the Free Trade Hall in Manchester

However an earlier issue, #10, is already protopunky - indicating where the title likely originates too

The zine seems to have oscillated between Old and New, or comprehended both simultaneously for a while

Perhaps the Hawkwind / Motorhead nexus was the bridge

Magazine's creator Paul Welsh writes on  the Amazon page for the compendium of Penetration zine:

I began writing in the early 70's and produced my own 'arts' magazine entitled 'Purple Smoke'.

When that folded I created a rock magazine entitled 'Penetration' featuring many bands of the day, Motorhead, Hawkwind, AC/DC, Sex Pistols to name just a few.

I was the only person taking photos of the legendary Sex Pistols gig at the Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall which have since sold worldwide featuring in Books, magazines, TV and Movie documentaries.

... All that and more has been documented in my book 'May Contain Flashing Images-Manchester, Music and Me!' 

I wonder if Penetration the zine ever covered Penetration the band.....

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