Julian Cope, Deaf School and Feargal Sharkey, in aid of Hillsborough

The Big Beat festival, 1989

As we saw in my post back in April, the Liverpool music community rallied round immediately after the Hillsborough disaster in 1989.

After the first, fast benefit gig with the Mission, it didn’t take long for people to get together and organise something a bit more official. The Big Beat festival was launched in May, with support from the city council, a…