Michael Alig - Party Monster
The Michael Decon Program
English - August 27, 2018 19:58 - 1 hour - 47.1 MB - ★★★★ - 13 ratingsSociety & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Episode 18: Sleep All Day, Party All Night
On This episode Of The Michael Decon Program, The Notorious Michael Alig made his Debut. In what is expected to be a series of interviews, A number of important topics were covered.
Michael Alig was born in South Bend, Indiana. He was a founding member of the notorious Club Kids, a group of young club goers led by Alig and James St. James in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Alig learned from mentors, including St. James, while rising in popularity and prominence in the national underground club scene.
Alig was also influential in the early promotion of DJ Keoki, Jenny Talia, Freez, Richie Rich, and many other Club Kid personalities. The Club Kids' outrageous behavior resulted in their appearing on the news and the television talk show circuit.
The events of Alig's years as a club promoter up to his arrest were examined in the 1998 documentary, Party Monster (1998), and recreated in a 2003 film of the same name ( Party Monster (2003),
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