Organisers of Hope and Glory 'profusely apologies' for cancelling festival
You can read their full statement below
Organisers of the Hope and Glory festival have apolopgised to festival goers after cancelling Sunday's event at St George's Hall
Thousands of people were left disappointing after Sunday's events didn't run
festival-goers complained of large queues on Saturday and singer Charlotte Church was pulled from the line-up following a two-hour delay.
"No festival today.''
On Sunday morning a message posted on the festival's social media accounts said: "No festival today.''
A statement on the Merseyside Police City Centre Twitter account confirmed the event had been cancelled.
Acts including Lightning Seeds, Hacienda Classical and Reverend And The Makers were due to perform at the event in Liverpool city centre on Sunday.
Police assisted stewards on Saturday afternoon after large queues formed outside.
Tim Booth, lead singer of band James, tweeted after the group's performance on Saturday night saying: "Sorry everyone was messed around so badly.
"Hope you managed to find some pleasure amongst the chaos.'
In a statement - organisers of the festival said:
"We are conducting a full review into what happened, however it is clear at this early stage that multitudinous failures by the Production Management Team resulted in a plethora of issues that meant the decision to cancel the festival was made. "
"Again, the festival accepts its responsibility but the public attending the festival need to know the truth behind our decision to sadly cancel the festival. We already know at this early stage, that we be taking legal action against some parties employed as a result of the failures."
"We can confirm that contrary to claims on social media, at no point did the festival exceed the capacity agreed by the SAG (council, police, fire, ambulance)."
The festival was concerned about the numbers and so decided to further reduce the capacity on the day by mid afternoon and stopped selling day tickets as a way to do so thus reducing the capacity below that that had been sanctioned by the Sag (blue light services and Liverpool City Council)."
"It is worth noting that if we had proceeded with the Council had advised the festival then this would have been at a severely dangerous level. We are relieved we did not"
A spokesperson from Liverpool City Council said - “Liverpool City Council, along with our safety partners, is to hold an investigation into the Hope and Glory Festival. What materialised over the weekend was completely unexpected and highly unusual.
"The event organiser has 25 years’ experience in the live music industry and has managed events featuring some of the biggest stars in the world, most recently Tom Jones in Wales."
"The plans for this festival were robust and were independently assessed and approved. All efforts will now be made to understand what lessons can be learnt."
"We’d like to thank all those Liverpool venues who stepped into host the acts that had been booked and questions will be asked of the organiser to ensure the festival goers get their refunds.”