King Rat and 3 Kings Tavern Announce: The King Rat XX Weekend – 20 years of Jeers and Beers

Tim Wenger | May 6, 2014 | 1 Comment

Friday and Saturday June 27^th & 28^th – 3 Kings Tavern

Denver, CO (May 1^st 2014) – Denver punk rock band King Rat is celebrating their 20^th year of making original old-school punk inspired music. The event will take place over two nights and will be recorded live for a double vinyl album to be released in the fall of 2014 by Reverend Jim Norris of 3 Kings Tavern. The weekend will see the reunion of an infamous Colorado band as well as treatments of half-forgotten King Rat songs at the hands of 12 of their local contemporaries. King Rat will also mark the occasion with the release of their 8^th studio recording Buy the Ticket Take the Ride.

Friday June 27^th

9:00 pm — Wretch Like Me (reunion show)

10:00 pm – King Rat set one (live recording)

11:30 pm – King Rat set two (live recording) – Both sets will feature renditions of crowd favorites and obscure throwbacks from all eight of King Rat’s studio recordings. The best cuts will comprise the first part of the double live album.

The night will also include the debut of new songs from Buy the Ticket Take the Ride – (album being released that weekend).

Saturday June 28^th

7:00 pm – 1:00 am (live recording)

12 of King Rat’s friends will be playing short sets that will include at last one cover of a King Rat song. These cover songs will comprise the second half of the double live album.

Here is the lineup, set times will fluctuate due to the number of bands.

Buteo Buteo, Straight Outa Luck, Hot Apostles, Dead Ringer, Throttlebomb, The Pitch Invasion, H.O.S.S., Red Stinger, Black Lamb, Chingaso, MF Ruckus, Lola Black

About King Rat

King Rat has been cranking out original two-and-a-half minute tirades about partying, passion and pain for 20 years. Their DIY character and bring-it-on attitude confronts banality while hacking away at the strictures of the status-quo. They celebrate the rush of joy at life’s brightest pinnacle, and traverse the mire of despair in life’s deepest trough. Their music applies literary blue collar grit to the old-school punk rock ascetic. The result is a sound that presents courage, calamity, sarcasm and rage in varying degrees.

Online: King Rat Facebook Page