LIVERPOOL'S Capital of Culture reign would not be complete without a good dose of football thrown in.
To mark the city's love of the beautiful game, contemporary classical composer Michael Nyman, who wrote the score for the film The Piano, is creating a performance charting the highs and lows over the last 20 years.
It includes music written as a memorial to the Hillsborough tragedy and those who died in it.
Echo and the Bunnymen frontman Ian McCulloch and the choirs at both cathedrals are to be approached to perform the pieces.
And the finale will celebrate the recent phenomenon of the WAGS (wives and girlfriends) with a piece called Extra Time where the women themselves hit the catwalk dressed by Cricket.
