Live 8 unveils a ruck and roll extravaganza

• Midge Ure urges protestors not to visit unless they have a place to stay

• Murrayfield line-up announced; Annie Lennox and Travis to take the stage

• Tickets for Live 8 gig will be given to winners of a phone text competition

Key quote

"I said last week, 'Edinburgh, open your hearts, open your homes,' and that will happen, I hope" - Midge Ure

Story in full MIDGE Ure last night urged anti-poverty protesters not to travel to Edinburgh without accommodation as he unveiled the line-up for a concert at Murrayfield stadium on 6 July.

Travis, Annie Lennox, Snow Patrol, Dido, Texas and the Proclaimers will be among the headline acts appearing at the stadium on the day the G8 summit opens in Gleneagles.

Seeking to quell concerns about the number of people who might descend on the capital for the G8 protests, the former Ultravox star said: "I've always said you've got to have some accommodation, you've got to have transport arrangements in place."

The Cambuslang-born singer, speaking at a press conference at Murrayfield stadium, side-stepped the question of whether he backed Bob Geldof's call for a million people to descend on Edinburgh. "I don't think I've ever said a million people will come to Edinburgh," he said.

"We know the type of people who will come. I'm bringing my family - it will be families, it will be people who believe in the cause."

Organisers said the Murrayfield concert would be wholly ticketed and they were working with the police and the city council to ensure crowd safety.

About 62,000 tickets for the Murrayfield show will be given to winners of a phone text competition, details of which will be announced later this week. Other confirmed names include Wet Wet Wet, Natasha Bedingfield, Ronan Keating and Jamie Cullen.

Organisers of the Live 8 campaign expect to use stadia in Glasgow, Aberdeen and other cities to broadcast the concert.

Speculation is mounting the Murrayfield show will also feature a live video link to the Pope and the former South African president Nelson Mandela. The Live 8 team refused to give details, but said it would make an announcement about non-musical guests this Friday.

Ure, who co-wrote the 1984 Band Aid hit Do They Know it's Christmas, again urged Edinburgh people to offer accommodation to those arriving to support the campaign.

"I said last week, 'Edinburgh, open your hearts, open your homes,' and that will happen, I hope. We are speaking to the churches, chapels and synagogues and mosques to see about giving shelter."

Ure, 51, said he believed that many of those coming to Edinburgh would be families and played down suggestions that a violent minority might hijack the Live 8 campaign.

"To drag your backside up from London all the way to Edinburgh to smash a window doesn't make any sense," he said.

"I wouldn't bring my family to something I thought could be a dreadful situation. I'm bringing my family here to celebrate, enjoy, be there and stand up and be counted."

The singer also sought to calm fears that Edinburgh's streets would be filled with people with little to do between the city's Make Poverty History march on Saturday, 2 July and the anti-poverty concert the following Wednesday.

"They won't come on Monday, they probably won't come on Tuesday, they will probably get here on Wednesday and leave on Wednesday night," he said.

The press conference at Murrayfield began with Ure taking a phone call from Sir Richard Branson, head of the Virgin group.

Sir Richard, speaking from New York, said he was providing a "Live 8" 747 from his Virgin fleet to fly representatives of US charity groups to Edinburgh on Monday.

The tycoon said that he was also chartering a Virgin Pendolino train next Tuesday to take members of 300 charity and church groups from London to Edinburgh. Perthshire-based bus operator Stagecoach said it would provide one thousand subsidised seats at 8 a ticket on a fleet of 12 coaches travelling from London to Edinburgh on 5 July.

It later emerged that the 140,000 cost of re-turfing the pitch at Murrayfield has been paid for by the Hunter Foundation, run by Scots tycoon and philanthropist Tom Hunter.