ITCHY-O ANNOUNCES LIVE, UNRELENTING BASHING OF 2014 AT NEW YEAR'S EVE SHOW IN DENVER

Jägermeister, Sol Tribe Tattoo, KGNU Community Radio and Denver Westword boldly present the annual live ritual of Colorado’s beloved masked chaos band, on Wednesday, December 31, 2014 - New Year's Eve at 3Kings Tavern.

Itchy-O will be joined by special guests Human Ottoman and DJdoctor Whom, for what promises to be a riotous evening of musical rapture. Denver fans should get on the ball and purchase tickets PRONTO, as this NYE show has sold out for the past two of years.

Don't take it from us, here is what people said about past Itchy-O performances:

"By the end of the night, all sweaty and exuberant, everyone wandered off once it became clear the band wasn't going to do an encore. We were like seekers who had just witnessed an auto-da-fé without death being on the line and no heretics needing to be punished. It was a raw and pure catharsis of a show.” - Tom Murphy

"Mind re-arranged. Absolutely stunning!" - Paul C.

"Everything was perfectly in sync, and the crowd was on fire! Loved seeing participants hanging from the rafters at the Mercury!" - Michelle G.

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ABOUT ITCHY-O

Publicist/Press Contact:  giselle (at) bodhimedialabs (dot) com

Press Kit: http://itchyo.com/evidence/                                                                         

Website: www.itchyo.com                                                                                      

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The 32-piece band of masked chaos invites you to dissolve the performer/audience divide and melt into the bedlam, that is the disorienting power of itchy-O. The itchy-O Marching Band (IOMB) is a Denver-based percussion-centered electronic marching band. itchy-O brings a sophisticatedly savage sound and the sheer ecstasy of instruments untethered and running free. With a driving drum corps battery, Taiko drummers, an arsenal of electronics including synthesizers, theremin, vocoders, and many other special devices, the IOMB completely engulfs and immerses an audience from every angle in a pounding electric bog of music, ephemera and spectacle. The masked and hive-minded IOMB is waging war on predictable mediocrity with their blind-siding-style performances which feature an artfully hazardous Chinese lion, a troupe of sensuous dancing provocateurs, fog, strobes, sequins, sweat and fury.

Itchy-O has played with David Byrne and St. Vincent’s band, performed at Riot Fest with Iggy Pop, Matt & Kim, Naked Raygun, and Public Enemy. They’ve opened for DEVO, Beats Antique, The Melvins, March Fourth, the Extra Action Marching Band, the Warlock Pinchers, headlined and sold-out many other shows. Itchy-O has been featured on Colorado Public Radio, performed for the Biennial of the Americas Kick-off Party, ScoutMob’s Halloween Bash in Atlanta, Westword’s Artopia, conferences such as Adobe’s Effective UI, and toured the US three years in a row.

ABOUT HUMAN OTTOMAN                                                                        

Website: www.humanottoman.com/press-kit                                

Facebook: www.facebook.com/HumanOttoman                                            

Human Ottoman is Susan Lucía (drums), Matthew Cartmill (cello), and Grayson Fiske (vibraphone). After meeting in Eugene, Oregon as music school misfits, they joined forces, quickly creating a repertoire of raucous, rhythmically dynamic music which combined their enthusiasm for music of all cultures with classical backgrounds and modern genre-mashing-jazz sensibilities, characterized most of all by their unique instrumentation. Their first album, aptly named "Power Baby", was independently released in May of 2014. Since then, they have been actively ear-pillaging throughout the west coast. From brain-crashing cello solos and atomic vibraphone drops to drum solos that scholars are still struggling to understand, Human Ottoman is bringing polyrhythmic world-metal to the masses.