The Farm (British band) Spoony. The Farm were also central to the track released to commemorate the Hillsborough disaster, "The Fields of Anfield Road", the proceeds going to the families of those killed in the disaster. The Farm was also one of the first bands to perform at the Echo Arena Liverpool when it opened in January 2008. In 2011, The Farm joined forces with others to create the "Don't Buy The Sun" Gig, at the Olympia in Liverpool, which was part of the continuing protest on Merseyside against "The Sun" newspaper for its controversial reporting of the Hillsborough disaster 22 years before. This
Hillsborough disaster to be at the game" and published a front-page headline "Police attack 'vile' fans" on 18 April 1989, in which police sources blamed the behaviour of a section of Liverpool fans for the disaster. In Liverpool local journalist John Williams of the "Liverpool Daily Post" wrote in an article titled "I Blame the Yobs" that "The gatecrashers wreaked their fatal havoc ... Their uncontrolled fanaticism and mass hysteria ... literally squeezed the life out of men, women and children ... yobbism at its most base ... Scouse killed Scouse for no better reason than 22 men were kicking a ball".