Ian McCulloch has said in an interview with BBC 6Music that he is shocked that he was not approached to help with his hometown of Liverpool's Capital Of Culture events next year.
The Echo And The Bunnymen frontman said: "I'm amazed that no-one's come even to me as an individual to help with all this, because, as far as culture in Liverpool goes, my band has given more culturally to the city over the past 28 years than anything else."
Elsewhere in the interview, the singer revealed that the band plan to play the whole of seminal long player 'Ocean Rain' at a gig at the Roundhouse next year, saying: "We'll go in the middle of the arena so everyone can see the back of your head. We're going to do that with an orchestra and play Ocean Rain from start to finish, plus other songs, but that will be the kind of centrepiece of the gig".