Deaf School celebrates 50 years with trio of golden gigs

Deaf School is set to play at the Knowsley Music Festival this month.

The Liverpool legends will take to the stage at the Knowsley Culture and Leisure Park in Huyton on November 16 as part of the music festival’s 50th anniversary.

The band will be supported by Liverpool-based music collective Disco in Sochi.

Influential art rock/new wave icons Deaf School was formed at Liverpool Art College in 1974 and was named after the former Liverpool school for the deaf in Hardman Street where they rehearsed.

Describing the band, music writer Paul du Noyer wrote: “Deaf School were pop art, they were their own mad kind of punk rock, and they were always guaranteed a non-stop party.”

The date at Huyton is one of three gigs which are being staged by Ken Testi’s Eric’s Productions to mark Deaf School’s 50th anniversary. They will also appear at Future Yard in Birkenhead on November 14 and The Citadel at St Helens on November 15. Both shows are sold out.

Above: Deaf School at Mountford Hall in December 2023.

The band says: “Deaf School love to do smaller and unusual venues; it's great to be 'up close and personal' with an audience

“Knowsley Borough Council do a great job each year, curating a series of shows that bring artistes out of the city and into suburbia.

“We endorse this initiative and are delighted to be able to appear in celebration of the borough's 50th anniversary which coincides with our own.

"Here you can see everything, and more, that we delivered to a packed Mountford Hall last year! But in a smaller room."

Meanwhile Knowsley Music Festival also presents Pete Wylie and the Mighty Wah! at Shakespeare North Playhouse in a sold out show this Friday, and An Evening with China Crisis - also sold out - at St Chad’s Church in Kirkby on November 21.

Deaf School brings Seven Have Fun on Merseyside to Knowsley Culture and Leisure Park on November 16. Tickets are £22 HERE