MTV tour invades OU
by Christina Xenos - 4/12/1999
Students arrived in the rain and cloudy moonlight of 5 a.m. on April 6 in front of the Memorial Auditorium Box office. Slowly they lined up with their lawn chairs and waited. Their tickets for this year's Mtv Campus Invasion tour, featuring Sugar Ray and Orgy, would go on sale in only 7 hours. "We got here at 6 a.m. and there were all ready about 30 people before us," said Penni Webb, freshman student. "I'm not so committed right now," she said standing in the rain."
There were others who saw the benefits of waiting hours to ensure a good seat. "I'm committed for my concert ticket," said freshman drama student Mary Kickel. "When I go to the concert it will be such a pay off." The 1999 Mtv Campus invasion tour kicks off at the University of California on April 2. It makes it's stop at the Ohio University Convocation center May 6. The doors open at 7 p.m. and Orgy is scheduled to go on about 8 p.m. followed by Sugar Ray.
Besides main musical acts of Sugar Ray and Orgy, the Mtv tour brings a Village to the lawn between East and South Greens. The village will feature at no cost the Mtv House of Style, DVD video wall, lessons on the art of mixing and scratching and two live acoustic shows by musician David Garza. Also in past tours there has been auditioning for Real World and Road Rules shows. The Village goes all day from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. .
The concert sponsored by the University Program Committee was rumored as early as Spring Break. The UPC concert committee had started to make plans for a concert since Fall Quarter."We wanted to bring someone big to OU since there hadn't been a big concert here for a while," said Alison Manning concert committee member.
The committee made a bid for the tour to come to OU and Mtv accepted the bid. Since the price of them coming wasn't too expensive UPC was able to sell tickets for only $5, said Manning.
There was also interest of local musicians to take part in the concert but since it a Mtv sponsored event only those with the actual tour are able to play. By 10 a.m. the ticket line had reached the balcony of West Portico. Students are only able to purchase ten tickets at once. There will be 600 floor seats and no more than 8000 tickets will be prospected to fill about seventy-five percent of the Convo. Starting April 8, tickets will also be available by phone.
