They might be giants, and they will be here.

The Undergraduate Council last night voted 63-0, with one abstention, to allocate $18,000 to bring alternative music band They Might Be Giants to Harvard.

The council also elected Brandon C. Gregoire '95 as its new secretary after elections for the post had been postponed one week because Gregoire was ill.

With a $10,000 contract already in hand, general council approval was the final stage in the effort to deliver a They Might Be Giants concert to the student body.

The band will play on April 28 in Alumni Hall. Tickets, which will cost $12 for Harvard students and $16 for non-Harvard students, will go on sale sometime next month.

The approval comes after failed attempts by the council in December to bring the bands Blind Melon and Digable Planets to Harvard. In both cases, the council allocated funds for the concerts but was later rebuffed by the bands themselves.

"Everyone felt as if the council could never pull a big act again," said Council President Carey W. Gabay '94, "but this will make the council more confident in its abilities. If [the concert] goes well, it will definitely boost confidence in student government."

Although the council had voted almost unanimously to bring in Blind Melon, Gabay said in an interview yesterday that he had expected some opposition to the Giants resolution.

Gabay thought the $18,000 price tag for They Might Be Giants, 20 percent more than the cost for Blind Melon, would sway some voters.

But the resolution passed with almost no debate.

"Everyone I know on the council who's talked to [constituents] has been told tovote for this," said John A. Mann '92-94," whosponsored the resolution.

Assuming all 1,000 tickets are sold, which Manndoesn't think will be a problem, the council wouldinvest no more than $6,000 in the venture,according to Mann's figures.

Mann also told the council that the $18,000estimate was "intentionally high, and actual costmay not reach" the allocations he listed.Specifically, Mann said he hopes to save up to$2,000 on production costs and several hundreddollars on publicity.

Students seem enthusiastic about the concert.Thirty-three percent of those surveyed by thecouncil in November said they would attend a TheyMight Be Giants concert.

"This is fantastic," said Pathik P. Patel '97,who plans to attend the concert. "We weren'thedging our bets because the last two bands fellthrough, but this is fantastic."

"I'm almost glad that Digable planets and BlindMelon fell through, because I like They Might BeGiants better," Patel added.