FORGOTTEN punk band The Limps made headlines across the UK earlier this year when a track they penned 45 years ago was snapped up for a Hollywood movie. The ageing group’s song Someone I Can Talk To found a younger audience when it was featured as the finale to the coming-of-age comedy Snack Shack, starring US actress Mika Abdalla. 7 The Limps give a punk one-fingers salute on their return to Annan.
PIC: ANDY BARR 7 The band took The Scottish Sun to where the bedroom where they used to rehearse. PIC: ANDY BARR 7 The Limps also returned to the Victoria Hall where they performed in Annan. PIC: ANDY BARR 7 The lane called The Cut where the punks came up with their name.
PIC: ANDY BARR Guitarist Andy Semple had formed the band with drummer Derek Watson, bass player Norman Jardine and front man Tom Davidson, all 66, in Annan in the Scottish Borders in 1978. Now, exclusively for The Scottish Sun, The Limps have reassembled for the first time in their hometown since their music dreams fizzled out in 1980, to recall the chaotic punk era. MOST of their hair may be gone, but their memories certainly haven’t when all four members of The Limps step on stage at the rundown Victoria Hall in Annan.
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