Third Eye Blind and MTV Team Up to Invade College Campuses With Special Guests Eve 6

Business Wire, Oct 5, 1998

NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Oct. 5, 1998--

Tour Kicks Off October 24 at The University of Nebraska

MTV will team up with Third Eye Blind and special guests Eve 6 for a fall college tour. MTV's Campus Invasion will kick off on October 24 at the University of Nebraska and will travel to over 20 college campuses across the country throughout the fall.

Third Eye Blind, who will be headlining the tour, has skyrocketed from underground obscurity only a year ago to become one of the biggest touring bands in North America. The San Francisco-based band's self-titled debut album is rapidly approaching triple platinum, and their newest single "Jumper," is closing in on the Top 5 on the Alternative Rock charts and is currently Top 20 in national airplay. "Jumper" is the band's fifth single off a debut album that has remained on the Billboard Top Albums chart for over 75 weeks, and produced such anthems as "Graduate," "Semi-Charmed Life" and "How's It Going to Be." Third Eye Blind has emerged as one of music's top live acts, headlining their own enormously successful "Bonfire Tour" in summer 1998.

Eve 6 will be special guests on the tour in support of their soon to be platinum acclaimed debut album. Their first single, "Inside Out," is currently flying up the Pop charts while maintaining its hold on the Number One Alternative position for three non-consecutive weeks - the first time ever for the Billboard Monitor Alternative chart. The video for "Inside Out" has spent ten weeks as a featured MTV Buzzworthy clip and has spent 16 weeks in heavy rotation on the channel.

MTV will launch the tour with a kick-off special on Thursday, October 22 at 7 PM (ET/PT) that will feature brand new videos from Third Eye Blind and Eve 6, as well as interviews with the bands, and information about tour dates and purchasing tickets. In addition, highlights from the MTV college tour will air as special programming segments on MTV throughout the fall.

MTV's Campus Invasion will also feature a free, daytime interactive festival where students will have the opportunity to preview new music videos from their favorite artists, experiment with computer generated music applications, play interactive music games, and to audition for MTV shows.

In addition, as part of an ongoing partnership between MTV and the Kaiser Family Foundation, Lifebeat and the Kaiser Family Foundation will participate in the daytime festival and will make sexual health information and materials available to students. -0-

         Dates for MTV's Campus Invasion are:
Oct. 24  University of Nebraska/Lincoln, NE
Oct. 25  Western Illinois Univ./Macomb, IL
Oct. 26  University of Illinois/Champaign, IL
Oct. 27  Augustana College/Rock Island, IL
Oct. 28  University of Michigan/Ann Arbor, MI
Oct. 30  Auburn University/Auburn, AL
Nov. 1         S. Conn. State Univ./New Haven, CT
Nov. 3         Hofstra University/Hempstead, NY
Nov. 4         Lehigh University/Bethlehem, PA
Nov. 5         Drexel University/Philadelphia, PA
Nov. 6         Shippensburg Univ./Shippensburg, PA
Nov. 7         Siena        College/Loudonville, NY
Nov. 8         SUNY Fredonia/Fredonia, NY
Nov. 10  Ball State University/Muncie, IN
Nov. 13  Central Michigan Univ./Mt. Pleasant, MI
Nov. 14  Indiana University/Bloomington, IN
Nov. 17  James Madison Univ./Harrisonburg, VA
Nov. 18  Radford University/Radford, VA
Nov. 20  University of S.Florida/Tampa, FL
Nov. 21  University of N.Florida/Jacksonville, FL
Nov. 22  University of Florida/Gainesville, FL

1-800-CALL-ATT for Collect Calls, Hyundai, Intel, and Old Navy are the official sponsors of MTV's Campus Invasion.

"It's a great combination: MTV, colleges and live music from great bands like Third Eye Blind and Eve 6," commented David Cohn, Senior Vice President, Marketing, MTV. "A college tour is a great way for us to connect with our audience across the country. We are already planning our next college tour for Spring 1999."

MTV's Campus Invasion tour is being coordinated by Creative Artists Agency. The daytime, interactive village is being produced by Tour Together.

MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom Inc., owns and operates five cable television programming services -- MTV: Music Television, M2, VH1, Nickelodeon/Nick at Nite, and Nick at Nite's TV Land -- all of which are trademarks of MTV Networks. Information about MTV and M2 is available on MTV Online, on America Online (Keyword: MTV) and the World Wide Web (http://mtv.com).