Article: Eric's and questions of life and death; Joe Riley talks to Mark Davies Markham, writer of the Everyman's new show about cult 70s Liverpool punk club Eric's.(News)(Theater review)

Byline: Joe Riley

THE Cavern was dead. Long live Eric's. To a new generation of 70s teenagers - among them Mark Davies Markham- The Beatles' cellar had been superseded by the punks' paradise, just across the road.

"By the time Eric's opened in 1976, The Cavern was something most of us wanted to bury. And they (the council) had done just that," affirms Mark.

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