{"id":1146,"date":"2023-05-11T09:51:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T09:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/2023\/05\/11\/eurovision-2023-why-liverpool-is-the-perfect-host-city-for-high-camp-mayhem\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T09:51:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T09:51:12","slug":"eurovision-2023-why-liverpool-is-the-perfect-host-city-for-high-camp-mayhem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/eurovision-2023-why-liverpool-is-the-perfect-host-city-for-high-camp-mayhem\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision 2023: Why Liverpool is the perfect host city for high-camp mayhem"},"content":{"rendered":"


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World-renowned musical heritage… and more pubs than you can shake a drumstick at: Why Liverpool is the perfect host city for Eurovision<\/h2>\n

By James March For The Daily Mail<\/a> <\/p>\n

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From behind the bar at the Hobo Kiosk \u2014 arguably Liverpool\u2019s most gregarious little pub \u2014 the owner Delia says: \u2018Oh, we\u2019ll do something. I might put together a playlist of all the songs that come last.\u2019<\/p>\n

You may have heard that Eurovision<\/a> is coming to town next week and this famous old port city is ready for days of high-camp mayhem. Once an eccentric one-night affair laced with hopeful gallows humour (from a British point of view, anyway), Eurovision has morphed into a five-day party with a Grand Final this Saturday.<\/p>\n

But with a world-renowned musical heritage and more pubs than you can shake a drumstick at, few cities are better equipped to host this celebration.<\/p>\n

A few minutes\u2019 walk from Hobo Kiosk at Albert Dock is The Beatles<\/a> Story, an immersive museum charting their rise to fame, including a replica of the legendary Abbey Road Studios. Further up sits the beautiful Cunard Building, once the dockside headquarters of the Cunard Line and now home to the British Music Experience (BME).<\/p>\n

Built in 1917, it\u2019s part of a triumvirate at Pier Head known collectively as the Three Graces, with the Port of Liverpool building and the grandiose Royal Liver Building. The latter\u2019s 360 Tour offers widescreen vistas of the city from its wind-blasted summit (legend has it that if the Liver Birds, two of which sit atop its clock towers, ever fly away, Liverpool will cease to exist).<\/p>\n

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James March visits Liverpool ahead of the Eurovision. ‘This famous old port city is ready for days of high-camp mayhem,’ he says<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Inside, beneath an ornately carved ceiling, the BME\u2019s corridors are stuffed with memorabilia covering every era of British rock and pop, from David Bowie\u2019s multi-coloured Ziggy Stardust costumes to Noel Gallagher\u2019s iconic Union Jack guitar. \u2018I think of places like Nashville and Austin where every other bar has music playing. It\u2019s the same sort of feel in Liverpool,\u2019 says the BME\u2019s Paul Cook.<\/p>\n

One of those bars is the legendary Cavern Club, now in a new location on Mathew Street, where the thud of drums and crunch of chords can often be heard from a couple of blocks away. Down the Cavern\u2019s spiralling stone steps is a narrow main stage where performers strap on an acoustic guitar and belt out Beatles classics and other well-known hits to a well-greased crowd.<\/p>\n

They also take requests, and the headliner laughs when an audience member excitedly shouts \u2018Wonderwall\u2019 mere minutes into his set, which he then reluctantly plays (helped by a singalong).<\/p>\n

Over on the equally excitable Slater Street, The Jacaranda doesn\u2019t have that problem. A historic venue where an early incarnation of the Fab Four performed as The Silver Beetles and were paid for their efforts with beans on toast and cola, \u2018The Jac\u2019 frequently showcases new bands on its low-lit downstairs stage and has been a local institution since 1958.<\/p>\n

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EuroClub \u2014 the world\u2019s biggest Eurovision fan club \u2014 will host Liverpool\u2019s official Eurovision party at the lively Camp and Furnace venue for nine nights. Above is\u00a0singer Sam Ryder, who\u00a0represented the UK in last year’s contest\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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James visits The Beatles Story, an immersive museum charting the band’s rise to fame<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Rooms at Malmaison Liverpool start from around \u00a382 per night. For more information, see visitliverpool.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

Beatles aficionados can jump on the Magical Mystery Tour which features stops at Strawberry Field, Penny Lane and the childhood homes of John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr.<\/p>\n

I choose instead to walk through the elegant Georgian Quarter, a neighbourhood in the shadow of the huge Anglican Cathedral.<\/p>\n

I decide to stop for a beer at a slightly more under-the-radar Beatles haunt. Ye Cracke is a spit-and-sawdust pub Lennon would frequent as an art student and there\u2019s a glass plaque on the wall commemorating The Dissenters, the little-known band Lennon formed in 1960 with three college friends \u2018which never played a note\u2019, as the inscription reads.<\/p>\n

EuroClub \u2014 the world\u2019s biggest Eurovision fan club \u2014 will host Liverpool\u2019s official Eurovision party at the lively Camp and Furnace venue for nine nights.<\/p>\n

But whether you\u2019re a fan of the annual song competition or not, this is a city that extends a relentlessly warm welcome and an inspired sense of humour. The new Nashville? Well, you decide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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