At the end of 1977, the VARA television program Wonderland also highlighted punk in a theme broadcast including performances by the Stranglers in the Paradiso in Amsterdam and the Sex Pistols in Maasbree.
[1][11] The lead singer for the Flyin' Spiderz, Guus Boers, had not heard punk before a concert of the Vibrators in early 1977 at the Technical University of Eindhoven.
[13] A second early Dutch fanzine Raket, associated with the Rotterdam punk scene and featuring the cult comic Red Rat, soon began being published, initially as a wall newspaper.
[19][20] Dutch punk bands from this period that were well known in the scene include the Speedtwins, Soviet Sex, Ivy Green, Jesus and the Gospelfuckers,[21] Neo Punkz, Helmettes, the Filth, Tedje en de Flikkers, the Ex, The Suzannes, the Rondos,[22] Panic,[23][24] Subway,[25] The Boobs,[26] and Two Two 79.
[17] A second club important to the early Dutch punk culture was Amsterdam's "DDT666" (Dirty Dutch Trix 666, later renamed Gallerie Anus), which was established by punk poet Diana Ozon and graffiti artist Hugo Kaagman; this club was located in the squat called the ‘Zebrahuis’ on Sarphatistraat in Amsterdam.
[32] The first record that Plurex put out was the Tits single "Daddy Is My Pusher / We're So Glad Elvis Is Dead", which is now regarded as a punk classic.
[39] The second one was the so-called "7,50 LP", which featured bands from several different Dutch cities: the Lullabies, the Bison Kidz,[40] Zero-Zero,[41] Neo-Pogos,[42] the Rapers,[43] and The Nixe.
Other punk bands active in the Utrecht scene were the Clits (later Cold War Embryos[44]), Coitus Int., De Megafoons, Pitfall,[45] and Disorder,[46] and a few years later The Avengers[47] and Kikkerspuug.
A lively punk scene also emerged in the West Frisian town of Hoorn, where bands such as The Vernon Walters[49] and Indirekt were active throughout the mid-1980s.
[28] At the end of 1982, the VARA produced a program for national television that broadcast bands such as: The Workmates, Soviet Sex and the Bizkids.
This included: Babylon in Woerden, Kaasee in Rotterdam, Simplon in Groningen, Stokvishal and the autonomous punk squat de Goudvishal in Arnhem, Doornroosje in Nijmegen, Chi Chi Club in Winterswijk, De Buze in Steenwijk, Bauplatz in Venlo, Tivoli in Utrecht, and Parkhof in Almaar.
The straight edge movement grew in the Netherlands in the late 1980s and early 1990s and included bands like Lärm (later Seein Red),[56] Profound (later Manliftingbanner), Betray,[57] Crivits,[58] Vitamin X, and Feeding The Fire.
[61][62][63] Dutch bands playing in this genre include: Mekanik Kommando, Minny Pops, Nasmak, The Young Lions,[64][65] and Fahrenheit 451.
Significant Dutch bands founded or active during this period include: Kankerwelvaart,[70] Misselijk,[71] ASO (from Horst, 1996-1997), Roggel, Die Nakse Bananen, Heideroosjes, Travoltas, Antidote, Disturbance,[72] I Against I, De Hardheid, the Hufters, Vitamin X,[73] and Antillectual.
[1] Compilations of Dutch punk bands released during this period included the 1998 albums X-treem CD[74] and Bits of Noise 2.
Also in the Netherlands, a few bands pursued a harder variant of indie rock, including Pfaff, Voicst, Avec Aisance (aka Avec-A, founded by Yuri Landman), Blues Brother Castro.
[87] In addition, pop punk bands achieved greater commercial success, including The Undeclinables, Bambix, Travoltas, and Human Alert.
[93] In 2012, an exhibition entitled "God Save the Queen" about the period 1977-1984 was presented in the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, and described in a publication written with De Groene Amsterdammer.