Deaf School's social life favoured the same circuit that the Liverpool Scene had known. ‘They were not really around the art college by now,’ says Average, ‘and they would have been seen by us as a generation older. But we used to hang around the Everyman Bistro a lot and the likes of Mike McGear/McCartney, and Adrian Henri would be figures around town.’ And wherever Adrian Henri was, there was often his young Glaswegian girlfriend Carol Ann Duffy, the future poet laureate, who spent the mid-1970s studying philosophy at Liverpool University.

Clive recalls, ‘We were regulars at Peter Kavanagh's [alias the Grapes, off Catharine Street], where the tutors from the art school went, either there or the Cracke or the Phil.’ And Enrico:

Even more important was O'Connor's Tavern, half-way down Hardman Street. Formerly a synagogue and later a morgue, O'Connor's had ominously few windows and resembled a Wild West saloon. Its upstairs room, with no view whatsoever, had hosted music and poetry since 1967 and it features on the cover of the Liverpool Scene's 1968 LP Amazing Adventures Of, where Adrian Henri and his crowd (bearded or mini-skirted) surround the portly, bow-tied landlord Jimmy Moore.