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    New life for My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult

    by Steve Knopper, Chicago Tribune Oct 23, 2017 3 minutes

    Brace yourselves: The frontman for a long-standing punk band is about to say something kind about Chicago police officers. Franke Nardiello, also known as Groovie Mann of the industrial-turned-'90s-pop band My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, spent some of his teens at Dugan's Bistro, the gay River North dance club famous for a drag queen called the Bearded Lady. But in the '70s, he was underage, so cops regularly hauled him out.

    "They wouldn't arrest you, or call you a f_, or anything like that," recalls Nardiello,

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