Summer pops

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The Liverpool Summer Pops have become established as an important part of the European summer music calendar, with some of the greatest names in music having played over the past six years, including Elton John, Paul McCartney, The Who, James Brown, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Diana Ross, Jools Holland, Tom Jones, Bryan Ferry, Westlife, Alice Cooper, Julio Iglesias, Sugababes, ZZ Top, Eric Clapton, Pet Shop Boys, Corinne Bailey Rae, Bryan Adams and Il Divo.

This years Liverpool Summer Pops will move to the brand new 4,500 seated Aintree Pavilion Arena at Aintree Racecourse.

CMP Entertainment, were first associated with the Summer Pops in 2001 at the behest of Liverpool City Council, when CMP booked artists of the calibre of Bob Dylan, Ray Charles and Shirley Bassey. Over the subsequent years, artists from every genre – rock, jazz, folk and pop – all played the event, which became an integral part of the European summer musical calendar.

During CMP Entertainment’s six-year tenure of the event, the familiar Green and Yellow Big Top played host to over a hundred big name artists and provided a platform for Liverpool to re-instate its rightful place as a venue for the biggest names to perform; something that had been sadly missing from the City’s musical skyline for many years.

In 2005, The Summer Pops moved from its home on the King's Dock to make way for the construction of the new Liverpool Arena and Convention Centre, and CMP’s Chas Cole’s says this will probably be the event’s greatest legacy.