In Liverpool, the nightclub Cream is hosting a dance party with Fat Boy Slim and Pete Tong while The Christians and Echo and the Bunnymen givea free concert in the city.
Other Comic Relief plans include a broadcast from the Give It Up For Comic Relief concert, the brainchild of Russell Brand, raising money for people in the UK affected by drug and alcohol addiction, on 6 March.
He then began expanding a business that bought concert venues and music-promotion companies, betting that greater scale would give him more clout in booking pop and rock musicians.