It’s November 1977 and there’s a new female voice in punk when Penetration release their debut single with singer Pauline Murray.

You could still count the number of female punk singers on the fingers of one hand after Pauline Murray joined Ari Up (Slits), Siouxsie Sioux (Banshees), Fay Fife (Rezillos) and Poly Styrene (X-Ray Spex).

And, if you cross the ocean, Patti Smith and Debbie Harry in New York, and a couple of bass guitarists in Gaye Advert and Tina Weymouth of Talking Heads.

Pauline Murray was the singer of Penetration and their debut single was the minor punk classic Don’t Dictate.

They never bettered it, though Pauline went on to record a solo album with Martin Hannett’s band of roving Manc musicians, The Invisible Girls (who also backed John Cooper Clarke).

Penetration were formed in late 1976 by four friends from Ferryhill, a small coal mining town in County Durham, who had gone to see The Sex Pistols in Manchester.

Murray was joined by guitarist Gary Chaplin, bass guitarist Robert Blamire and drummer Gary Smallman. By mid-1979 they had broken up.

Unlikely pop fact: Ferryhill, with a population of under 10,000, was also home to Alan White, the recently deceased drummer of Yes, and Ipswich Town football legend Eric Gates.