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Incubus to rock SCSU
By Jay Corn
Published:
Friday, September 10, 2004
Media Credit: Photo Courtesy Of Sony Music Group Inc.
Brandon Boyd, Mike Einziger, Jose Pasillas, Chris Kilmoro and Ben Kenney together make up Incubus and will pay a visit to SCSU Nov. 11 to share their music with students and the community.
Putting days of online rumors and speculation to rest, the SCSU University Program Board (UPB) announced to the campus Thursday that the alternative-metal band Incubus will headline the first major SCSU concert of the year.
Halenbeck Hall will be the site of the Nov. 11 concert and will feature an opening performance by British rockers The Music. Students can begin purchasing tickets for the all-ages-show Friday at 9 a.m. with cash or charge at the Atwood Center Information Desk. Tickets will cost SCSU students $25 for lower level tickets, $20 for upper level. All seats are general admission, but UPB member and concert coordinator Amanda Griffith is anticipating an early rush of students to snap up tickets early Friday morning .
"I expect there to be a line at 7 a.m. Friday morning," Griffith said. "The feeling I get is that students are really excited and pumped for the show and we're expecting ticket sales to be steady."
Griffith's feeling of an anticipatory student body was reflected in SCSU freshman Liz Meyer when she was asked her thoughts about the upcoming Incubus performance.
"I really am pretty excited for the show," Meyer said. "I found out about the show this weekend from a flyer and was kind of surprised a band like Incubus would be playing here. There's no doubt I'm going to go and I'm sure I'll be in line bright and early Friday morning."
UPB has been working since mid-July to organize a national caliber concert in the mold of the Evanescence and Ludacris shows the organization produced last year. Both the Ludacris and Evanescence concerts were a success and UPB expects the Incubus show to do even better.
The first week of September is an uncharacteristically early announcement from UPB regarding musical acts, but Griffith said the earlier the better.
The planning and negotiation to bring Incubus to SCSU began back in mid-July but definite confirmation came only last week.
"My partner Angie (Bombard) and I started talking and brainstorming over the summer about what bands we would like to see come to campus," Griffith said. "I don't remember exactly how the name Incubus came up, but we brought the suggestion to our board and they were really excited so we moved on to the planning stages and contract proposals."
Working through a booking agent, UPB spent three weeks hammering out the details and intricacies of the contract, in the end landing the globally recognized rock act.
"I think it's going to be a really good show and the opening act should really be impressive," Griffith said. "Angie and I have worked really hard to get this show off the ground and everyone is really excited."
Incubus has been touring non-stop since February in support of their latest album, A Crow Left of the Murder, and after six months overseas, returned to the U.S. in June to begin their domestic tour. Additionally, the band has been a leading force in the Rockthevote campaign being waged nationwide in an effort to boost voter (particularly young voter) turnout.
Incubus' stop at SCSU is the only Minnesota date the band will play in 2004 and will be the first time in over two years Incubus has visited the Land of 10,000 Lakes.
The 5,400 available tickets will go on sale to the public Monday, three days after the initial, priority offering to SCSU students and will be $10 more than the student prices.
The first opportunity to score free tickets will come tonight at 9 p.m. during the UPB sponsored Johnny Holm concert taking place in the Atwood Ballroom. Tickets for the Johnny Holm show are free for students and can be obtained via the red kick-it-tix packets UPB handed out during Wednesday's Main Street or at the door before the show. A drawing will be conducted during the night and a winner will win two Incubus tickets before they go on sale.
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