David Rat

(From Happy Ending forward by Fiona Helmsley)

A small town boy, David Rat came to New York City in the early 1980´s to be an artist. With big city rock n’ roll dreams he became the drummer for seminal No Wave pioneers "Rat At Rat R". David worked the door at the infamous downtown Pyramid Club, juggled clingy girlfriends and looked forward to finally garnering his father’s approval as a mainstream success in the music industry.

The story-telling quality of David’s poetry calls to mind the lyrical elegies of Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side” and Iggy Pop’s “Look Away.” But immersed within the world of the New York City underground David became addicted to heroin, and began writing testimonies to painful longing and the ritual redundancies of addiction.Only with the birth of his son did David finally find the motivation and the strength to kick his habit and banish the needle from his life.

Today, David Rat is an ex-patriate living in Brazil, with his wife Greice and border collie "Lady", and writes only for charity... Currently Drug Free, He remains fiercely dedicated to animal rescue, his music, writing, and to the dream his son James will help realize a Peaceful and Compassionate world...

more info about David Rat at

www.open-Bks.com

www.Dromedary-Records.com ....