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Fences are placed around the Pier Head area(Image: christopher megrath)<\/p>\nGreen fences have been placed around the Pier Head blocking access for pedestrians<\/p>\n
11:30, 20 Aug 2025Updated 11:38, 20 Aug 2025<\/p>\n
Fences are placed around the Pier Head area(Image: christopher megrath)<\/p>\n
Large green fences have appeared around the Pier Head<\/a> on George Parade Road and Canada Boulevard. The barricades are in place as preparations get underway to host the Liverpool Celebrates music festival <\/a>this weekend.<\/p>\n At the time of writing, access to the Pier Head is still available for pedestrians from the Water Street, Mann Island and Royal Albert dock entrances. The entrances are expected to close closer to the festival, which takes place from Saturday, August 23 to Monday, August 25.<\/p>\n The stage is under construction and access toward the George Parade area is blocked due to building works. Thousands are expected to attend the festival<\/a> as it celebrates its second year.<\/p>\n Building on the success of last year’s inaugural event, Liverpool Celebrates <\/a>returns with three days of live music set against the backdrop of The Three Graces, the River Mersey<\/a> and Mathew Street. Throughout the weekend, the festival will offer family entertainment for all ages to enjoy.<\/p>\n The festival will open with a ‘Legends Day’ on Saturday, August 23, with headliner Tony Hadley who fronted 80s New Romantic band Spandau Ballet. Bongo\u2019s Bingo will headline Pop At The Pier on Sunday, August 24 with a family-friendly show.<\/p>\n The legendary Mathew Street festival <\/a>will also return with on Monday, August 25, with tribute performances curated by The Cavern to round out the bank holiday celebrations.<\/p>\n Gate opening and closing times<\/p>\n The gates to the Pier Head will be open from 1pm and finish at 10pm on Saturday, and 9pm on Sunday. Gates to the Mathew Street festivities open at 1pm and close at 8pm.<\/p>\n Saturday, August 23: Legends at the Pier<\/p>\n Sunday, August 24: Pop at the Pier<\/p>\n Monday, August 25: Celebrating the Mathew Street Festival<\/p>\n Liverpool Celebrates tickets<\/p>\n Tickets cost from \u00a315 for adults and \u00a35 for children. You can purchase your tickets here.<\/a> You can see all of the highlights from Liverpool Celebrates 2024 here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Green fences have been placed around the Pier Head blocking access for pedestrians 11:30, 20 Aug 2025Updated 11:38,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,42748,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-359307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-liverpool-pier-head","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115060884543998089","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Construction](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_Railings-around-Pier-Head-for-Liverpool-Celebrates-2025jpgon.jpg\")
Construction is underway to build the stage(Image: christopher megrath)<\/p>\n\n
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