Penetration - Don't Dictate

This performance of 'Don't Dictate' takes place at the Electric Circus in Manchester's Collyhurst district, and probably dates from 1976. It is the clip referred to by Liz Naylor during the punk women panel at Stoke Newington Literary Festival in 2016, in that it's definitely the right venue and Pauline Murray is clearly performing amidst a "tsuinami of gob" and, ooh, it looks grim.

Gobbing issues aside, this a great early punk live clip.

I first heard 'Don't Dictate' on one of those punk compilations that were released in the early 1990s' to cash in on the punk revival. A lot of the tracks on said compilations were dreadful, or not really punk, or the arse end of punk. So, not always that useful for those of us just discovering punk and trying to learn more about it. Sometimes though, if you persevered,  you could find some real gems amidst the crap. This was one of them.