FOUR shows by cult Liverpool band Deaf School will be a highlight of the Everyman and Playhouse theatres’ autumn season.

Regulars at the legendary Liverpool club Eric’s, they have given only a handful of concerts since the late 1970s.

The gigs will take place over three days in September – 35 years after they last played at the Everyman.

Other key shows announced yesterday include an evening with Roger McGough, reading from his new poetry collection That Awkward Age, and a new Liverpool production of the successful West End version of John Buchan’s The 39 Steps.

Ken Testi, Eric’s co-founder, said: “Deaf School was formed at a time when there had been very little original thinking in Liverpool music since The Beatles.

“They weren’t the most talented musicians, but they showed me that it’s really the quality of ideas that counts, and being art students they had plenty of them.”

The Everyman will be transformed into cabaret-style stage seating for the concerts, which will include new material.

More details were revealed about Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker, which will star Everyman graduate Jonathan Pryce, as reported in the Daily Post in March.

The show will run at the Hope Street theatre from October 2 to 31 and involves Pinter’s own designer, Eileen Diss.