From the archive, 21 January 1985: Pop bands put on miners' benefit show

Originally published in the Guardian on 21 January 1985BRIXTONOn a Saturday night in the large and freezing Brixton Academy, four British pop bands raised an estimated £18,000 for the striking miners in a remarkable show that mixed political idealism with just a little bitchiness and trouble. The idea originally came from Aztec Camera's Roddy Frame who wrote, offering help, to the National Union of Mineworkers. A sound technician, Simon Firth, happened to be at NUM HQ, and although he has never...

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