Few British cities can rival the musical heritage of Liverpool – and as the Eurovision Song Contest arrives back in the UK after 25 years, Merseyside is getting ready for its moment in the spotlight. An extra 150,000 visitors are expected to descend on the city for the sell-out event this weekend. While the world’s eyes will be on the M&S Bank Arena for Saturday’s final, the Liverpool area will enjoy a whole week of club nights, raves, live screenings, concerts and after-parties.
But it’s not just Eurovision that’s bringing a buzz to the UK’s fifth largest city: hot on the heels of that will be the relaunch of the Liverpool Biennial, Europe’s largest festival of contemporary visual art, which begins next month, and the arrival later this year of Boxpark’s first venue outside London, in the Baltic Triangle creative district.
King Charles recently paid a visit to Liverpool, where dozens of cranes in the docks area show the major regeneration of the former warehouses at what was once busiest port in the world.
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