Third Eye Blind tickets gone in two hours
Union Board, University looking to add more tickets
By: Andy Bruner
Issue date: 10/3/08 Section: News
The Union Board's Oct. 10 concert featuring Third Eye Blind has done something no campus concert has in nine years: run out of tickets.
All 900 free tickets for the concert were claimed in a little more than two hours Wednesday night, said Greg Dillon, assistant dean of campus life.
"It was one of those things that you can make your best estimate of how tickets will go, and then you wait and see what happens," Dillon said. "I didn't anticipate we would have all tickets go that quickly."
Union Board Co-President Lauren Weatherall, a junior, said she was also "pretty surprised" by the students' quick snatch-up of the tickets.
"We have never, as far as the current exec board goes, we've never been put in the situation that the tickets were sold out," she said.
Dillon said that in his 14 years at DePauw this is only the second concert to sell out. The last one was a 1999 performance by Dave Matthews, and those tickets - which were not free - didn't sell out until the day of the concert.
Weatherall and Dillon said concert organizers are looking for ways to increase capacity in Kresge Auditorium for the show, but they can make no promises right now.
"We are trying our best to secure more tickets for those students who are interested," Weatherall said. "If we can add more, we definitely will."
Dillon said there is currently a waitlist of about 150 students for tickets, and Weatherall said if more capacity is added, the number of additional tickets will "still be minimal."
Dillon gave two reasons why the tickets went in such a hurry.
"Third Eye Blind is a big name," he said, adding, "It's a free show, so even if you're not Third Eye Blind's biggest fan, why not go?"
Weatherall added one more explanation for the ticket scramble.
"It is a really big weekend, combining it with Old Gold Weekend," she said. "The timing of the concert is really good this year. It doesn't conflict with any sorority events or anything."
Dillon said Kresge was the best venue for the concert given its scheduling during the weekend of President Brian Casey's inauguration and Old Gold Weekend.
"We would've loved to have had the event in the Lilly Center, but that's the rain location for the inauguration, and the band wasn't willing to use the facility under those circumstances," Dillon said. "Kresge was really our only option."
Weatherall said Union Board sees both positives and negatives to the ticket situation.
"It's a little disappointing that there are limitations outside of our control that determined the number of tickets we could provide to students," she said. "But we are happy that there's been this level of interest."
All 900 free tickets for the concert were claimed in a little more than two hours Wednesday night, said Greg Dillon, assistant dean of campus life.
"It was one of those things that you can make your best estimate of how tickets will go, and then you wait and see what happens," Dillon said. "I didn't anticipate we would have all tickets go that quickly."
Union Board Co-President Lauren Weatherall, a junior, said she was also "pretty surprised" by the students' quick snatch-up of the tickets.
"We have never, as far as the current exec board goes, we've never been put in the situation that the tickets were sold out," she said.
Dillon said that in his 14 years at DePauw this is only the second concert to sell out. The last one was a 1999 performance by Dave Matthews, and those tickets - which were not free - didn't sell out until the day of the concert.
Weatherall and Dillon said concert organizers are looking for ways to increase capacity in Kresge Auditorium for the show, but they can make no promises right now.
"We are trying our best to secure more tickets for those students who are interested," Weatherall said. "If we can add more, we definitely will."
Dillon said there is currently a waitlist of about 150 students for tickets, and Weatherall said if more capacity is added, the number of additional tickets will "still be minimal."
Dillon gave two reasons why the tickets went in such a hurry.
"Third Eye Blind is a big name," he said, adding, "It's a free show, so even if you're not Third Eye Blind's biggest fan, why not go?"
Weatherall added one more explanation for the ticket scramble.
"It is a really big weekend, combining it with Old Gold Weekend," she said. "The timing of the concert is really good this year. It doesn't conflict with any sorority events or anything."
Dillon said Kresge was the best venue for the concert given its scheduling during the weekend of President Brian Casey's inauguration and Old Gold Weekend.
"We would've loved to have had the event in the Lilly Center, but that's the rain location for the inauguration, and the band wasn't willing to use the facility under those circumstances," Dillon said. "Kresge was really our only option."
Weatherall said Union Board sees both positives and negatives to the ticket situation.
"It's a little disappointing that there are limitations outside of our control that determined the number of tickets we could provide to students," she said. "But we are happy that there's been this level of interest."
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Chris
posted 10/03/08 @ 5:51 PM EST
Hi, I'm not a student at Depauw but I am a HUGE third eye blind fan. If any student is willing to sell me 2 tickets at a fair price, please email me, thanks a lot! ~ Chris
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