The Limit, one of Sheffield's 'most legendary' clubs. The Human League, Cabaret Voltaire, Clock DVA, Vice Versa (later to become ABC), Def Leppard, Artery and others all played seminal shows at the venue.
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00:00 So this week we're talking about what's probably my favourite club, because I was actually old enough to go to Limit, the legendary Limit on West Street.
00:07 So my name's Neil Anderson and I've got, I've published the Dirty Stopouts Guide series.
00:13 Yeah, well the Limit, it kind of, it was really our kind of contribution to the punk rock music, punk rock explosion, kind of, late '75, 1976.
00:25 And punk wasn't particularly well received in Sheffield, like many places really, and probably the first venues, they were, I think it was Windmill Club,
00:36 it was more kind of rather in Doncaster where a lot of the kind of local punks were having to go.
00:40 And I think one of the places that were quite accepting was a rock bar, The Wapping Tech.
00:46 But, you know, Sheffield never really had its own kind of punk rock club, and one of the former DJs from The Wapping Tech, a guy called George Webster,
00:55 he got together with a former police officer, Kevin, Kevin Johnson, and they came up with the idea for The Limit Club.