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IHEARTRADIO: Dominic Monaghan + Billy Boyd + DOLLY ALDERTON + ALAN FREW

On the Saturday March 16, 2024 edition of the Richard Crouse Show we meet Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd, a.k.a. Merry Brandybuck and Pippin Took, from the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. They’ve built upon their famous friendship by working together on podcasts (“The Friendship Onion,” “Moriarty: The Devil’s Game”) and TV (Boyd appeared on Monaghan’s travel show “Wild Things,” and the two just announced a new reality series “Billy and Dom Eat the World”). But now they’re making their stage debut together as a different dynamic duo.

The pair will star in a new production of Tom Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” in Mirvish Productions’ Off-Mirvish series at Toronto’s CAA Theatre until April 6, 2024.

Then, best-selling author Dolly Alderton stops by. She’s a regular columnist for the Sunday Times Style Magazine, and the author of the phenomenally successful memoir “Everything I Know About Love,” which she’s just finished making into a hit BBC TV series; and a bestselling novelist thanks to her barnstorming fiction debut “Ghosts.” Her latest best seller, “Good Material,” a story of heartbreak and friendship and how to survive both.

We wrap up with Glass Tiger singer Alan Frew who talks about music, how he keeps his voice in shape and much more.

Listen to the whole thing HERE!

Badminton and Racquet Club: RICHARD AND BARRY AVRICH Q&A FOR “MADE YOU LOOK.”

I’ll be hosting a Q&A with director Barry Avrich about his film “Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art” ar the Badminton and Racquet Club.

“Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art is a crime documentary about the largest art fraud in American history set in the super rich, super obsessed and superfast art world of New York. Controversy erupts when an unassuming couple floods the art market with a collection of fake art sold for millions to the prestigious Knoedler Gallery who then sold the art to collectors and the art world elite, in this entertaining and suspenseful tale of an $80 million ingenious con that everyone wanted to believe was real.”

 

LAST CALL: “You didn’t go there for the bathrooms. You went there for the music.”

Punk rock came roaring to life in a cramped, dingy bar on New York City’s Lower East Side called CBGB at 315 Bowery. More known for its filthy bathrooms than its drinks or food—legendary rock photographer Bob Gruen said with a laugh, “It was not a place you’d eat at.”—it is significant for its oversized influence on rock ‘n’ roll history. It’s the punk rock Cavern Club, a launching pad for new genres of music that still reverberate today. Punk scene likely would have happened without CBGB, but the grungy little club gave it a homebase.

In this podcast I’ll talk about the unruly story of an accidental cultural incubator born out of a unique moment in history where outsiders, like The Ramones, The Dead Boys, Talking Heads and Blonde, were brought together, celebrated and encouraged to be themselves.

Joining me to tell the story of CBGB are photographer Boib gruen, filmmaker, co-founder of “Punk” magazine and CBGBite Mary Harron, The ‘B’ Girls singer Lucasta Ross and The Punk Rock Museum co-founder Lisa Brownlee. Topping it off is an interview from the vault I did with CBGB’s owner Hilly Kristal in 1992.

Listen to the podcast HERE!