45 years after their formation on Liverpool’s Hope Street, new wave pioneers Deaf School will play two nights at the Everyman – just walking distance away from where the group first met.

Following the release of their sixth studio album Let’s Do This Again Next Week in December 2017, the band return to their old stomping ground the Everyman, transforming the auditorium with cabaret-style seating to make the theatre their temporary home for two nights on 21st and 22nd September.

Considered as one of the most important bands in Liverpool’s music history, Deaf School are made up of original members Cliff Hanger, Bette Bright, Enrico Cadillac Jnr., The Rev. Max Ripple, Frank Average and Ian Ritchie, and drummer Greg Braden who joined in 2013.

Deaf School first met at Liverpool College of Art on Hope Street in 1973, with the aim of playing the school Christmas dance. In 1975, the band received national and international acclaim winning Melody Maker’s National Rock/Folk competition and recorded three albums with Warner Brother and three John Peel sessions.

After touring extensively across the UK and America, the group disbanded in 1978, before reforming in the early 2000s. They have since released three studio albums.

The band performed an emotional gig to say goodbye to the old Everyman, before its closing in 2011. Their two shows in September will be the first time the band have performed in the new Everyman space since its re-opening in 2014.

Steve Allan, AKA Deaf School’s Enrico Cadillac Jnr, said: “Deaf School and the Everyman theatre have a long history – beginning in the early 70’s as regulars of the old Bistro, playing very early gigs there and hanging out at the fantastic Hooley’s Wake production pretty much nightly, to returning in the 2000’s for some incredible sell out shows.

“It’s going to be very special for us to play the new version of the Everyman in September.”

Deaf School’s Bette Bright will also be taking part in Benjamin Ari Meyer’s work on the Playhouse stage for Liverpool Biennial 2018. Meyer has created a series of musical compositions that form the basis for film portraits, with Bright joining Siouxsie and the Banshees drummer Budgie and two other musicians with ties to Liverpool.

Tickets for Deaf School’s two nights at the Everyman are on sale now and available at: www.everymanplayhouse.com/whats-on or by calling 0151 709 4776.