Scousers are being asked to sing their workplace gripes in a project that has been replicated all over the world.
Liverpool Complaints Choir will perform what they hate most about work at a number of locations across the city, including at Granby Market early next month, in FACT arts centre and outside Lime Street Station.
Directed by Sense of Sound leader Jennifer John, the choir has only one requirement for membership - a willingness to "sing loud and proud".
The Complaints Choir concept was created in 2005 by Finnish artists Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen and has since been replicated globally, including in some unusual locations such as the one-person complaints choir deep within the Canadian woods.
Previous versions have not had a theme, but for Liverpool is focusing on workplace grumbles to tie in with FACT's current summer exhibition Real Work.
The show, running at the Wood Street arts centre until October 6, explores precarious and often unrecognised forms of work and includes video installations as well as a striking mural in FACT's lobby, created by artist Laura Callaghan.
Choir creator Tellervo Kalleinen said: "We realised that people complain a lot, no matter what their life circumstances are.
"We wanted to tap into this unending source of energy, we wanted to transform this complaints energy into something else, something surprising."
Liverpool-based musician Jennifer John, who manages singing collective Sense of Sound Singers, has teamed up with FACT and local residents to choreograph the Liverpool Complaints Choir, incorporating people's work woes into a specially commissioned performance piece.
Jennifer said: "The joy of community choirs is that you have a level playing field with people new to singing and more experienced choir members coming together to make something special happen.
"It has been just amazing. People were a bit scared initially but by the end of the first session everyone was really excited for the project."
The initial workshop involved participants passing a ball around while shouting out gripes and choosing 10 key grievances from a list compiled after an open call for complaints.
Jennifer said: "What came out of the session was that there were a whole range of things people were unhappy about to do with work, from the air conditioning to the current political state which impacts on wages and conditions."
