Mathew Street Music Festival
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Liverpool will be the UK capital of live music this August Bank Holiday, with a radical new programme for the Mathew Street Music Festival.
For the first time in its 16-year history, Liverpool's legendary annual event will feature:
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Six outdoor stages across two days in Liverpool city centre
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The outdoor stages will operate from 11am to 6pm on both days.
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A new main stage near to the Queensway Tunnel
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New themes for all six stages - including Soul, Diva, Brit Pop and New Bands
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Huge LED screens on three stages
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Supporting indoor programme of live music in pubs, clubs and venues across the city
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A new Mathew St Fringe Festival - featuring original bands
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Over 80 hours of live outdoor music has been programmed for Sunday-Monday, August 24-25 with 95 bands performing from as far as USA, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, France, Italy, Finland, Poland, Turkey and Scotland.
The outdoor stages:
Tunnel (Main)
Main Stage - located on Byron Street - by Queensway Tunnel entrance
Williamson Square
New Bands & Streetwaves Stage - located on Williamson Square
Derby Square
Beatles Stage - located on Derby Square
Water Street
Guitar Hero Stage (Sunday)
Diva Stage (Monday) - located on Water Street - (at Drury Lane)
Exchange Street East
Merseybeat Stage - located on Exchange Street
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Pub Rock Stage (Sunday)
Blues / Soul Stage (Monday) - located on Tithebarn Street (at Avril Robarts JMU building.)
Highlights of the weekend will include a 42-piece orchestra from the Czech Republic and a 32-piece military
band from Brazil accompanying two Beatles tribute acts. Cult heroes 'Chas and Dave' will be appearing on the main stage on Sunday, with 90s chart topping band Right Said Fred and award-winning blues legend Connie Lush on the Diva Stage on Monday. Joining them on the Diva stage, which will be hosted by Liverpool super-club Garlands, will be stars from BBC TV's Saturday primetime show - The One and Only, including the winner Katy Setterfied as Dusty Springfield.
The '08 festival will also be promoting the best of Liverpool's current music scene from hiphop to indie to psychedelic folk rock at Williamson Square, on both days, and crowd favourites on the Pub Rock and Merseybeat stages on Monday. There will also be a new European dimension thanks to a Streetwaves competition for unsigned bands organised by the Liverpool Culture Company via the Cities on the Edge programme with Marseilles, Bremen, Gdansk, Istanbul and Naples.
