The final push

Musician and Live 8 organiser Midge Ure is one of our G8 guest bloggers

This past week has all been fantastic - a complete whirlwind. On Saturday night I managed to get caught up backstage doing interviews and saw absolutely nothing. I saw U2 at the very beginning, and then nothing until I joined everyone on stage at the very end.

But now I'm in Edinburgh looking out over the huge empty space of Murrayfield stadium. I have to say I think they've put the stage in the wrong place; it's not where I imagined it, but I admit it does look fantastic.

The phone's been ringing non-stop. I had Bob [Geldof] on the phone half an hour ago with another half dozen artists, who I don't think we can even fit on to the bill. It's a weekday evening concert, so we've got to give people time to get home from work; there's only then a finite amount of time for the acts.

Towards the end, Bob and Bono will be part of a delegation leaving Murrayfield and heading for Gleneagles to sit down with the G8 leaders.

Meanwhile we're still negotiating with police to see if we can set up screens for people who haven't been able to get a ticket; understandably, the police have a lot on their plate at the minute. But for us it's important that as many people as possible get to see the concert. It's that global platform that matters to us.