Itchy-O

Itchy-O is a 57-member avant-garde music performance group based in Denver, Colorado, consisting of a drum-corps battery, pyrotechnics, taiko drummers, and an arsenal of electronics and crowd-roving provocateurs.

History
Formed in Denver, Colorado in 2009, itchy-O released the EP Inferno! in 2011 and signed with iconic label Alternative Tentacles to release their debut LP Burn the Navigator in September 2014. Both works were engineered by Bob Ferbrache.

The group's second album, From the Overflowing, was released on Alternative Tentacles in September 2017, followed by a cross-country supporting tour and live in-studio performance on WGN-TV on October 5, 2017. Itchy-O released their third album, Mystic Spy | Psyko Dojo, August 11, 2018 on their Mettle Studios imprint with a regional supporting tour in 2019.

During the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, the group developed two immersive drive-in concert series taking place in Denver: August's Sypherlot: Drive-in Radio Bath and October's Hallowmass. The recordings from these performances (engineered by Evergroove Studio) were released as SYPHERLOT/HALLOWMASS 2020: DOUBLE LIVE October 30, 2021 on Alternative Tentacles.

On September 17, 2021, itchy-O played a surprise set for the grand opening of immersive art exhibition Meow Wolf's Denver location, Convergence Station.

Itchy-O has performed at Riot Fest, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Austin's Art Outdoors festival, the Stanley Hotel Film Festival, Tucson's All Souls Procession, San Francisco's Day of the Dead Festival, Atlanta's Goat Farm and Denver's Biennial of the Americas. They have played on stage with David Byrne & St. Vincent, and shared billing with Devo, Beats Antique, Warlock Pinchers, Extra Action Marching Band, The Melvins, March Fourth, and many others.

The group has also anchored Fantastic Fest in Austin (2015-2017, 2022) and played four centerpiece shows in Hobart, Tasmania at MONA FOMA's wintertime festival in 2016.

Albums

 * Inferno (EP, 2011)
 * Burn the Navigator (LP, 2014)
 * From the Overflowing (LP, 2017)
 * Mystic Spy / Psykho Dojo (LP, 2018)
 * Sypherlot/Hallowmass 2020, Double Live (LP, 2021)

Members
Tyler Aldridge - Sampling | Keys | Noise Division

Ethan Alexander - Bass Bryan Aquino - Snare Scott Allen Banning - Producer | Director | Roto-Toms

Ernie Baske - Cymbals Benjamin Beardsley - Publicist Nicole Banowetz - Inflatable Arts Mariah Becerra - SFX

Claire Bellamy - Wardrobe

Evan Bowles - Audio David Britton - Synthesizer | Noise Division Geoff Brent - Chaos Krüwe Megs Burd - Beast

Nicolas Caputo - Audio

Daniel Craig - Vocoder | Noise Division Jesse Dawson - Sampling | Electronics | Noise Division Jackson Ellis - SFX | Pyro Technician

Jenny Ferry - Lighting Design Grayson Fiske - Bass Drum

Jon Frances - Chaos Krüwe Evelyn Fugate - Kriēchén Fez Garcia - Cymbals | Percussion Mike Grimsley - Chaos Krüwe Epona Shephard - Kriēchén Colin Elliot - Audio

Bard Griffin - Polyphonic

Bailey Harper - Kriēchén Lyndsey Hays - Kriēchén

Blair Hollow - Polyphonic Chuck Holt - Polyphonic | Chaos Krüwe

Amy Jackson - Taiko Stephen Karpik - Bass Drum David Kessner - SFX | High Voltage Technician | Engineering Micah Kessner - Fog Engineer | Chaos Krüwe

Jamil Khera - Lighting John Knudsen - Kriēchén Thomas Knight - Taiko Andrew Linares - Vocoder | Chaos Krüwe Roger Liu - Advisor Susan Lucia - Timbales

Nafeesa Lynn - Kriēchén Jackson Lynn - Taiko Henri Francois Mamet - Chaos Krüwe Mark Moffett - SFX | Pyro Technician James Nelson - Guitar

Jake O'Neal - Tenors

Eean Ovens - Beast

Michael Patterson - Audio

Travis Powell - Lighting Hanne Schrickx - Cymbalist Thomas Silaghy - High Voltage | SFX | Chaos Krüwe Erin Smith - Lighting Designer Casper Smith - Beast | Chaos Krüwe John Smith - Chaos Krüwe Abrean Sophia Marie - Kriēchén Aaron Spriggs - Theremin | Noise Division

Kim Stangl - Wardrobe

Dejavia Todd - Chaos Krüwe Sara Valentine - Kriēchén Kirsten Vermulen - Co-Producer | Synthesizer

Mike Weiblen - Tech Bernard Wooten - Cymbals Wakinyan Zephier - Chaos Krüwe Cetan Zephier - Beast | Chaos Krüwe