Eurovision 2023: Liverpool's logo and slogan revealed ahead of allocation draw

This year's Eurovision Song Contest successful Liverpool volition person the slogan "United successful Music", with its artwork showing hearts beating together.

The BBC said it "reflects the precise origins of the contest", which was primitively created arsenic a broadcasting experimentation to bring Europe together.

This year's lawsuit volition beryllium held successful the UK due to the fact that it is excessively dangerous to signifier it successful Ukraine, which won successful 2022.

Both country's flags person been utilized arsenic inspiration for the colour scheme.

An authoritative handover ceremony, hosted by Rylan Clark and AJ Odudu, volition beryllium broadcast from Liverpool's St George's Hall astatine 19:00 GMT connected Tuesday connected BBC Two.

Most participating countries volition besides find retired which semi-final they volition vie in. Local schoolhouse pupils, arsenic good arsenic members of the Ukrainian assemblage who person settled successful Liverpool since the warfare began, volition beryllium progressive successful the allocation draw.

The semi-finals connected 9 and 11 May volition spot 31 competitors whittled down to 20 acts by the nationalist - in a alteration to the rules - up of the expansive last connected 13 May.

The UK, France, Spain, Germany and Italy automatically suffice for the last due to the fact that of however overmuch their broadcasters wage to instrumentality part. Ukraine volition besides spell consecutive to the last arsenic 2022 winners.

The erstwhile year's victors usually signifier the adjacent event. The UK came 2nd acknowledgment to Sam Ryder successful 2022, and says Liverpool volition big this year's amusement connected behalf of Ukraine.

As portion of Tuesday's draw, the politician of past year's big city, Turin, volition manus implicit "the keys" to Eurovision arsenic good arsenic the authoritative insignia for the competition.

Liverpool City Council and the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority will wage astir £4m betwixt them towards putting connected events extracurricular the arena.

There volition beryllium events crossed Liverpool - including a instrumentality parkland with large screens for those incapable to get tickets to the 9 shows (including rehearsal performances) during Eurovision week.

The main bulk of the fund for the world's most-watched unrecorded euphony lawsuit volition autumn to the BBC arsenic big broadcaster - an estimated outgo of betwixt £8m and £17m.

Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan has besides confirmed that the UK authorities volition contribute, but has not said however much.

The competing countries - done their nationalist broadcasters - besides wage an introduction fee.

Revealing the logo, Martin Green, managing manager of the lawsuit for the BBC, said: "This year's individuality sums up perfectly the astonishing partnerships crossed the contention and, much importantly, the powerfulness of euphony to bring radical unneurotic crossed the world."

All the build-up, insights and investigation volition beryllium explored each week connected a caller BBC podcast called Eurovisioncast.

Eurovisioncast volition motorboat on BBC Sounds connected Tuesday, oregon hunt wherever you get your podcasts from.