If you go:What: Gym Class HeroesWhen: Friday at 9 p.m.Where: The QuadHow much:Free

If it rains:What: Gym Class HeroesWhen: Friday; doors open at 8:30 p.m.Where: Goldstein AuditoriumHow much: Free, but ticket is required

The rainy weather is affecting more than people’s moods these days.

On Friday, University Union is presenting Gym Class Heroes in a free concert on the SU quad.

But if it rains, the show will move to Goldstein Auditorium.

Although UU is waiting until Friday at 10 a.m. to announce the final decision, the free tickets to the indoor show will be available today at 11 a.m. at the Schine box office. Because Goldstein only holds 1,500 people, only SU and SUNY-ESF students will be able to get tickets.

‘You might not need them,’ said Kelly Bertog, the co-director of UU Concerts. ‘But if you want to make sure you can go to show, you should go to get them.’

The tickets will still be available on Friday if there are any left, but Bertog expects them to go quickly.

‘We’re going to give them out until they’re gone,’ he said. ‘We’re giving out the full capacity of Goldstein.’

Gym Class Heroes, from nearby Geneva, N.Y., won ‘Best New Artist’ at the MTV Video Music Awards this year. The band’s second major label album, ‘As Cruel as School Children,’ released in 2006, has sold more than 500,000 copies in the United States.

Verizon Wireless is sponsoring the tour, which helped UU’s decision to offer the free concert.

‘It was more reasonably priced,’ Bertog said. ‘We had the money to cover it, without the extra money from tickets. We decided it would be more beneficial to give the campus a free show.’

UU Concerts considered Goldstein as a backup from the start, but it was only recently that they started looking into specific details, Bertog said.

If UU decides to move the show indoors, the announcement will be posted on the SU News Web site and various places around campus.

‘We will do everything we can to make sure that the campus is aware,’ Bertog said. ‘We really hope to do it outdoors; however, we can’t control the weather.’

Published on October 10, 2007 at 12:00 pm