Why was mathew street festival cancelled

Liverpool council has estimated it will shed up to 1, jobs over the next three years, on top of that have disappeared over the last few months through early retirement and voluntary redundancy.

David Cameron has previously accused Liverpool of exaggerating its cuts for political effect. But Anderson insists they are not going to go down the route of the s when Derek Hatton, the deputy leader of the council, set an illegal budget in defiance of the Conservative government. Max Steinberg, chief executive of Liverpool Vision said the two options being considered for it were reducing funding or closure.

Next year, for example, we are bringing the largest global entrepreneurship congress to the city for eight days, which brings huge value," he said. Increasingly, we are looking at how we attract money for our cultural offerings and in the future it is only by creating SMEs [small and medium enterprises] that it will bring more wealth and influence.

We support SMEs through a range of programmes. The city's private sector has been buoyant. There have been dramatic physical changes: the regenerated waterfront, the five-star hotels, the Liverpool One city centre shopping development and the tourism boom on the back of the city's Capital of Culture success. Flooded Creamfields called off.

Music festival success 'amazing'. Dipstick tests for festival youth. Festival reviews drinking policy. Mathew Street Festival. Liverpool City Council. Only a few thousand people were expected to attend the inaugural event held on August Bank Holiday, featuring free music from 65 bands from around the world. However, more than 20, music fans turned up on the day, leading to the establishment of the Mathew Street Festival which would go on for another 20 years.

As its popularity grew, the celebrations expanded beyond Mathew Street and the festival became a much anticipated fixture in the city's calendar. Although it mainly featured a number of tribute bands Robbing Williams, The Antarctic Monkeys, and Stereotonics to name but a few a number of big names did grace the Mathew Street stages.

Look at the amazing pictures of Mathew Street Festival through the years in our gallery here. By , attendees reached record levels as an estimated , Beatles fans packed the city centre for the festival, which marked the re-release of the film Yellow Submarine.