FORMER Dire Straits' drummer Pick Withers will take to the stage later this month to raise cash for a Wirral charity.

Part of the proceeds from his show at The Green Room in Liverpool on Thursday, January 20, will be donated to Highcroft People's Day Centre for the Disabled in Bebington.

Pick, who lives in Wallasey, wlll be joined by Wirral musicians Jack Clarke, Sam Broadbere, London-based Daniel E Walker, Professor Dot and music teacher Dave Semens.

Hoping to tickle your funny bone on the night will be Bootle-based comedian Glen Wild.

Pick told the Globe earlier this month: "I just want to keep music as live as possible, because it's the place where people can see, what I think is a dying art.

"People get their amusement, these days, from television and it's getting increasingly harder to entice people out to remind them of what live music can do."

Pick played on Dire Straits' self-titled debut album in 1978, and other albums Communiqué (1979), Making Movies (1980) and Love Over Gold (1982).

After leaving the band - whose hits included Walk Of Life, Sultans Of Swing and Romeo & Juliet - in 1982, Pick continued to tour and record and has worked with the likes of American folk legend and activist Joan Baez.

In the following years, he has also spent a lot of time practising and teaching drums.

Tickets for the show, which starts at 8pm, are from 0870 787 1866. For more details, visit thegreenroomliverpool.com