More tickets and GLC for tsunami gig

United Kingdom | 19 January 2005

Not only have Goldie Lookin' Chain just been added to the bill, organisers of this weekend's tsunami relief fundraiser at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium have put up an extra 1,000 tickets on sale.

*UPDATE* all tickets sold out in 20 minutes!

The show's producers have been looking into how they might squeeze more people into the benefit show ever since the original ticket allocation of 60,000 sold out in a matter of days. The 'Live Aid-style' event aims to raise £1m for survivors of the Boxing Day disaster.

Kicking off at 3.30pm on Saturday (22 January), the show will also include performances from the Manic Street Preachers, Stereophonics frontman Kelly Jones, Eric Clapton, Snow Patrol, Feeder, Keane, Embrace and Badly Drawn Boy.

The BBC will be broadcasting the event on both TV and radio, as well as online. Parts of the show will be screened on BBC1 and BBC2 live, as well as it being broadcast by Radio 2.

Seated tickets will be go on sale from 1.30pm today (Wednesday 19 January) priced between £22.50 and £30 and are only available by calling Ticketmaster.