Dutch punk music started in 1975 with Ivy Green in Hazerswoude village. They became the major Dutch first wave punk band, recording an album of the same name.
At about the same time, drummer Saskia de Jong was the only Dutch person in the nascent London punk scene. In 1977 in Paris, she co-founded the Lou's. Later, in 1981, back in her native Leiden, she co-founded the Miami Beach Girls.
In the years after the Sex Pistols had played in Paradiso in Amsterdam in early 1977, bands started in Amsterdam: including Panic, Infexion, the Bugs, Motorboat, the VD patients, the Helmettes, the Filth, the Nitwitz.
In Utrecht, there were the Lullabies, The Nixe, Noxious and Rakketax.
In Rotterdam, Kotx, Bunker OESO, the Rondos, Debiele Eenheid and Revo.
In the period 1976-1982, at least 77 and still counting, Dutch punk bands consisted for 20-100% of female musicians. The Wanda's from Alkmaar started as all-women.
When English Crass and Poison Girls toured the Netherlands in March 1980, their support band in Voorschoten was mixed-gender Cheap 'n' Nasty. Cheap 'n' Nasty toured with Zounds in November 1980. Cheap 'n' Nasty's Covergirl EP came out in spring 1981.
Groningen city was important for Dutch punk, though geographically somewhat isolated. With bands like the Boegies and Makiladoras; and later, in the 2010s, the Introns.
Nijmegen was the city of Tedje en de Flikkers, the Squats, and later the still existing Bambix.
Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, there were and are many punk bands in the Netherlands. Too many to do justice to all of them here. .
