Capital of Culture: With the Beatles

If we remember the early days of Liverpool's Capital of Culture bid clearly, one of the great drivers was proving to the world that there's more to the city's culture than the Beatles.

Now they've announced the key event for the festivities, and it turns out to be a Beatle. Paul McCartney, in fact, playing a gig at Anfield.

Anfield's a great choice, in fact - visitors can enjoy the gig, then wander two streets down to see the shamefully-treated terrace streets that are being left to rot, before enjoying a few minutes in the glorious Victorian gift to the city's people, Stanley Park. Assuming they avoid the bits that are being dug up to build a football venue for Liverpool FC.

There are some interesting events on the block, though - the 2008 Electric Proms are coming out of London "for the first time" (i.e. they haven't done it in the first two years) and there's a musical based on Erics scheduled for October.

That the content might be being spread somewhat thinly, though, across the twelve months is suggested by the Echo billing "the World Firefighter games" as one of the biggest events.