What was expected was achieved to the millimeter. waiting around Eurovision 2023 This meant that in barely an hour and a half the organization of the festival to be held in Liverpool next May was sold out.
During the previous days, the EBU which relied on the BBC to organize this year’s competition given the impossibility of holding it in Ukraine, he made it clear that he wanted to increase the number of events and make the music and song festival even bigger for all Eurofans . 9 shows, including the two semi-finals and the final, would allow thousands of people to get closer to Eurovision.
And in just 90 minutes, the nearly 55,000 seats that had been put up for sale (6,000 per event) sold out. After the organization and Ticketmaster advised that tickets would only be sold for one event per person, tickets for the final were the most sought after and in just 36 minutes a sold-out house was guaranteed.
To all these figures, it should be added that Eurovision 2023 has reserved up to 3,000 places for Ukrainian refugees from the war to be present at the festival.
If you had already booked and paid for travel and hotel but are out of tickets, don’t worry because the festival and the city of Liverpool plan to hold a Eurovision Fan Zone for up to 25,000 people to experience each of the events on the big screen with the cultural activities associated with it.
All #Eurovision2023 shows, including previews, are now SOLD OUT.
Demand was very high, but don’t forget we have 3 amazing TV shows planned for this year’s competition and plenty of Eurovision activities and parties around Liverpool during the event!
— Eurovision Song Contest (@Eurovision) March 7, 2023
The 67th edition of Eurovision will be held for the ninth time in the United Kingdom due to the impossibility of doing so in Ukraine (the country that won the last contest). This unusual event had not occurred for 43 years. The last time Eurovision was held in a country other than the previous year’s winner was in 1980. Israel had won two years in a row, in 1978 and 1979, with Abanibi and Hallelujah, when he decided not to participate in 1980. Eventually it was held in The Hague, Netherlands.
The final of the competition will take place on Saturday May 13, while the two semi-finals will take place respectively on the 9th and 11th of the same month. The setting chosen to host this major European song festival will be the M and S Bank Arena, also known as Liverpool Arena, which has a maximum capacity of 12,000 people, being the largest venue in the city.
Liverpool will host Eurovision for the first time, but the ninth in UK history: London did so in 1960, 1063 and 1977; Edinburgh, in 1972; Brighton, in 1974; Harrogate, in 1982; and Birmingham, in 1998.
The stage at Liverpool Arena is over 450 square meters, plus a further 220 square meters of video screens, which move and rotate independently. Likewise, there will be 700 video tiles embedded in the ground and over 1,500 meters of LED lights.