ITCHY-O’S 2016 NEW YEAR’S TRYPTIC; 3 NIGHTS, 3 KINGS, 3 CHAPTERS: HOREGALLES, XIN XING, TERPSICHORE AT 3 KINGS TAVERN - DENVER, COLORADO

City, O' City, Bound-by-Design, Birdy, Twist & Shout Records, Denver Westword, KGNU, Mutiny Information Cafe proudly present this New Year’s three night engagement with Denver’s beloved masters of ceremonial chaos, ITCHY-O!

After four years of sold-out New Year’s Eve performances itchy-O is expanding their fabled NYE show into a 3-evening long, divinely inspired experience. Each show of the trilogy will evoke a different theme with distinct performance elements and special guests. Itchy-O’s interstellar New Year’s blitz will start on Thursday, December 31 with Horegalles - Drum Prayers and special guest Church Fire, continuing the next evening Friday, January 1st with Xin Xing - Electro-metaphysics, including special guest SPELLS, and culminating on Saturday, January 2 with Terpsichore - Seven Point Ceremony and featuring special guest NATIVE DAUGHTERS. 

This three night New Year’s festival is sponsored by City, O’ City, Bound-by-Design, Birdy, Twist & Shout Records, Westword, KGNU and Mutiny Information Cafe.  We encourage fans to get tickets early and consider the 3-show deal as the performances are designed to build upon each other. Collectively, this New Year’s show promises a luminous 3-night itchy-O rite of passage that will ignite your New Year with blazing spectacle, lavish sonics and a bold cosmic calibration for 2016. 

3 Kings Tavern - 60 S Broadway, Denver, CO 80209

Ages 21+

Tickets on sale at http://itchyo.com/event/nye2016/ 

A limited amount of Service-Fee-Free hard tickets can be purchased at:

City, O’ City- 206 E 13th Ave, Denver, CO 80203 (303)831-6443

Mutiny Information Cafe- 2 S Broadway, Denver, CO 80209 (303)778-7579

Video One- 600 Downing St, Denver, CO 80218 (303)832-4646

ITCHY-O NEW YEAR'S 2016

• Thursday, Dec 31 - with Church Fire  Horagalles: Drum Prayers  ($30ADV-$40DOS)
• Friday Jan 1 - with Spells  Xin Xing: Electrometaphysics  ($20ADV-$30DOS)
• Saturday Jan 2 - with Native Daughters Terpsichore~ Seven Point Ceremony ($20ADV-$30DOS)

**All three nights $60ADV!**

What people are saying about itchy-O shows:

“Itchy-O is as powerful, disorienting and, honestly, scary as mercury poisoning. They are like herd of elephants in mariachi gear, punk as fuck. They are to be feared and revered. When I was in REDvsBLACK, the bass player and one of my best men, Clay DeHaan, used to play Crash Worship videos for people when they asked about Denver music, and it would pop skulls, so I’m glad to see that that heavy strangeness has survived in a new form. Nothing is like Itchy-O live. And double respect for turning groupthink and teamwork and sweat into high art.” - Sam Tallent

“Itchy-O delivers a heart-pounding, sweat-pouring, fiercely intense performance. At the end, the doors of the Highball burst open and people drenched in sweat desperately gasp for air. Like a scene from a disaster movie, people stumble around looking to see if their friends made it out alive. Itchy-O is music performance like no other. This band is a must to see live.” - Justin Msc (Austin Live Review) 

“This 36 or more member marching-drum band creates an experience that is immersive on another level completely.  The band consists of masked members wearing sombreros and carrying their own unique instruments. Some walk through the crowd wearing a huge speaker on their back, some carry drums around the crowd, some interact with the crowd by shaking you to dance, some are blowing air on you with leaf blowers or crawling about on the floor and popping up out of nowhere ands scaring the hell out of you. Oh, and there was also a fucking dragon. Yea, a dragon. It would go from person to person licking and dancing all up on folks. It was the purest madness that I have ever experienced at a concert and it was beautiful. They created an blanket of energy that touched everyone in the venue both figuratively and literally.” - Trey Hilburn III (ihorror.com)

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ABOUT ITCHY-O

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Website: www.itchyo.com                                                                                      

Facebook: itchy-O | Facebook 

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 sophisticated 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 OUR MUSIC GUESTS

Church Fire

Church Fire | Facebook 

Majestic witchy up to no good dance duo. 

SPELLS 

SPELLS | Facebook

SPELLS is a five-piece rock juggernaut from Denver, CO. They are vacation rock to be exact. They produce short blasts of intense melody and driving rhythms that are custom made to entertain the band members themselves and serve as an excuse to go play shows in cities that have beaches nearby. If your city’s best offers include said beach and a good breakfast joint, count them in. If the best your city can do is a punk house that smells like cat shit and a Subway restaurant inside a gas station, they will pass.

Native Daughters 

NativeDaughters | Facebook

Native Daughters’ sound packs many of the body blows from heavy, riff-based post-metal, but it also draws melodies from the cream of the mid-90s emo/post-punk crop. Equal parts blunt force trauma and tense, swirling heartbreak; you won’t know what hit you, but you’ll be glad that it did.