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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.

Crowds of people in Castle Street Liverpool to watch a band on the yellow submarine stage
in front of the town hall as part of the 1999 Mathew Street festival (Image: Mirrorpix)

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.