The Name of the Band is The Limit, From Mexico to Sheffield was Laureana Toledo’s addition to Art Sheffield 05. Toledo created a cover band that sang songs by local Sheffield groups, and named it after the cult Sheffield nightclub, The Limit, which closed in 1992. The band was created in Mexico – where it played one local concert, then came to Sheffield, where it played two shows before disbanding.
Like most of Toledo’s work, The Limit appropriates and reinterprets a pre-existing entity. With this volume, Toledo continues to play with the idea of authorship by pirating an already iconic magazine layout – The Face – and turning it into a labyrinth of information that leaves the reader unsure if he or she is reading about music, a band’s story, an artist, Mexico or even just pop culture.
THE LIMIT by LAUREANA TOLEDO
ISBN 978-1-904563-96-9
Softback, 160 pp
310 x 240 mm
Published by Trolley Books, London: www.trolleybooks.com