LIVERPOOL bands united to highlight the continued fight for justice for the Hillsborough families with Kop Of The Pops at a packed O2 Academy.

Featuring performances from The Bluetones, The Sums, Western Promise, Ian McNabb, Buzzcocks, Ian Prowse (Amsterdam) and DJ sets from Peter Hooton (The Farm), it was an emotional Saturday night.

Peter Hooton said: “With this being the 20th anniversary, people wanted to do something to mark the occasion and show our respects. We’d already done the single, but when Barry rang to ask if I’d do something, I thought it was a great idea.”

On the night Ian Prowse, from the band Amsterdam, performed Does this Train Stop on Merseyside?, his tribute to the disaster. The song has been covered by Irish folk legend Christy Moore for his up-coming album, Listen.

Prowse said. “It includes the lines: ‘Yorkshire policemen watched with folded arms, while people tried to save their fellow fans’. Christy tells me that the one line people keep mentioning in his version of our song are those lines. The gig has raised awareness that a great wrong has not yet been righted.”