All tickets sold for tsunami show

The Manic Street Preachers played the stadium on Millennium Eve

All 60,000 tickets have now been sold within three days of going on sale for a concert at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium to help tsunami victims.

Organisers are examining if they can raise capacity for the show on Saturday, 22 January.

The Manic Street Preachers, Snow Patrol, Embrace, Badly Drawn Boy, Craig David and Liberty X were the latest acts added to the bill.

Organisers also said more big names would be added to the bill.

Other acts already confirmed include Eric Clapton, Lemar, Jools Holland, Feeder, Katherine Jenkins, and Aled Jones.

Tickets went on sale on Saturday, and within the first hour 20,000 were sold via phone and the internet.

People have started to see that this is going to be AN event to mark what happened Paul Sergeant, Millennium Stadium manager

Tickets cost £30, £22.50, and £15. Phone lines were engaged as soon as they opened at 1100 GMT, though many thousands of tickets were bought online.

Phone and online purchases are being taken 24 hours a day. The booking line number is 08705 582 582.

Tickets were also being advertised on the internet auction site eBay, with many sellers stating that any profits would be donated to the disaster fund.

Crowds began queuing at the Millennium Stadium entrance on Saturday morning, only to be told initially that none would be available directly from the venue.

But so many people turned up that stadium staff decided to create a makeshift box office in the lobby.

Fans queued for hours for tickets

Paul Sergeant, the Millennium Stadium's general manager, said: "I got the first feeling that this might be something ridiculously big when we got tens of thousands of hits on our website after we announced it as an idea, two days before we confirmed it was going ahead.

"In fairness I thought we would sell out but I wasn't expecting us to sell out so quickly."

He said organisers had to look carefully at whether they could increase capacity.

"We've got to get that right because if someone buys a ticket and can't see the stage they won't be very happy."

As momentum gathered around the event he said more stars wanted to be involved.

"People have started to see that this is going to be AN event to mark what happened and they have started to look at their schedules to see if they can make it."

Mr Sergeant said organisers were in discussions with broadcasters about televising the event.

Snow Patrol were confirmed for the concert on Monday

Cardiff Council and South Wales Police were helping to fast-track the necessary processes to get the event up and running.

The 22 January date for the concert was fixed because it was the last date available before the stadium takes delivery of the pallets of grass which form the pitch.

The venue hosts Wales' 2005 Six Nations rugby tournament opening game, against England, on Saturday, 5 February.

The Disasters Emergency Committee has said that people in Wales have contributed an estimated £7m to help the victims of the tsunami.

On Saturday, the Treasury announced that VAT on charity concerts and records for the Asian tsunami disaster would be paid back to the appeal.

The UK Government will make a special donation to the Disaster Emergency Committee to offset the VAT charged on ventures specifically designed to raise cash for the appeal.