Eurovillage has shown what Liverpool is really capable of.
The festival was nothing short of a smash-hit, and over the week around 100 performers and tens of thousands of fans transformed the Pier Head and perhaps reminded the city what it was capable of. It could easily top the list of biggest events the city has hosted since our success as Capital of Culture in 2008.
For many the Eurovision Village will have been a reminder of times lost. At times in our history - many not so distant - the city was welcoming such events every year such as Summer Pops and the Mathew Street festival.
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Summer Popswas once massively popular and welcomed some of the world's biggest names in music to the city. It was set up in 1993 as somewhere to give the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic orchestra a place to play as the Philharmonic Hall was being refurbished, but it was so popular that it carried on.
Diana Ross, Sir Elton John, ZZ Top, Paul Simon and Julio Iglesias are just some of the names the festival once hosted on the Kings Dock, where the M&S Bank Arena now stands. Peter Kay also once packed the tent for five nights in a record-breaking sell out run.
Has Eurovillage made the case for a new yearly summer festival in Liverpool? Do you want to see Summer Pops return to the waterfront, or a revival of the Mathew Street festival perhaps? Tell us in the comments.
We also had the Mathew Street Festival which started as a one-off weekend but became an annual music festival welcoming up to 350,000 people in its heyday. In August 1993 the company behind the annual Beatles Convention held a bank holiday party expecting only a few thousand, but ended up welcoming 20,000 people - and the festival was born.
From then on each year it grew before it was cancelled on health and safety grounds in 2007. But after a campaign by the ECHO and its supporters it returned.
However, it would once again be canned in 2013. But many still hold fond memories of the festival, with one ECHO commenter saying we have "got to bring [the] Mathew Street Festival back now," adding there are "no excuses left" after hosting Eurovision and Eurovillage.
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