CURIOSITY, CRIME & COCKTAIL TIME

Michael Alig was born in 1966 in Indiana and moved to New York City as a teenager; he didn’t take long to immerse himself in the city's club scene. He worked at  Danceteria  while studying the nightclub business, eventually becoming a party promoter.   Alig adored the fact that the underground nightlife could quite easily go hand in hand with performance art; the outrageous costumes and strange venues became a glorious theatrical rebellion against expectations. Alig Alig and

GG Allin was born Jesus Christ Allin on the 29 th of  August 1956, in Lancaster, New Hampshire. He was nicknamed GG after his brother struggled to pronounce Jesus. Their father, Merle SR was a reclusive, paranoid religious extremist, constantly speaking of sin, the apocalypse and believing GG was to be the next messiah. GG felt he was cursed by the name Jesus, that he had to live up to some impossible delusion of his father’s. In defiance of expectations, he went on to become

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