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Rat Scabies and the Holy Grail: Can a Punk Rock Legend Find What Monty Python Couldn't?
( Christopher Dawes lives in a quiet English village. His...)
Christopher Dawes lives in a quiet English village. His neighbor is Rat Scabies, former drummer with the Damned, best noted for setting his drums on fire while still playing them at a live concert. Life with Rat as a neighbor isn't run-of-the-mill, but things turn even stranger when Rat announces that he (and Christopher) are going on a search for the Holy Grail. The saga begins in Rennes-le-Chateau in France, where in 1891 a local priest discovered a treasure whose mystery remains unsolved. Once Christopher and Rat have written a list of things to do ("Buy metal detectors!"), they need only unravel a tale involving the Cathars, the Knights Templar, the Man in the Iron Mask, and Louis XIV—and along the way, visit Paris, Rome, Glastonbury, and Tintagel—and perhaps join the Masons (Rat thinks they know something). The legend of the Holy Grail is far from unknown, but this is the first time the quest has been given the punk rock treatment. Rat Scabies and the Holy Grail is a psychedelic, Pythonesque road trip, a testimony to the sometimes odd nature of friendship, and a rich historical yarn.
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Rat Scabies And The Holy Grail by Christopher Dawes (2006-03-27)
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He works as a music journalist using the pseudonym Push. As Push, he wrote for the weekly music paper Melody Maker for 10 years. He was also the editor of the seminal London music magazine The Buzz from 1987 until its demise.
He left Melody Maker in 1995 to become the founding editor of the clubbing magazine Muzik, before becoming the editor of the male lifestyle title Mondo in 1999.
After several years as a book author, he returned to magazine publishing in 2012 as the editor of the specialist electronic music magazine app Electronic Sound. He was responsible for nurturing and guiding some of the brightest talent of the day, many of whom went on to further success in the music industry.
He was one of the first United Kingdom music journalists to write about acid house and during his time at Melody Maker he conducted early interviews with the likes of Pulp, Soul II Soul, North.W.A, Soundgarden, De Louisiana Soul and The Orb. The very first interviews in the United Kingdom press with The Sugarcubes, Carter USM and The Shamen were published in The Buzz during his time as the editors
Dawes’s best known book is Rat Scabies And The Holy Grail, published in 2005 by Sceptre Books in the United Kingdom () and by Thunder’s Mouth Press in the United States ().
lieutenant is a gonzo-esque quest to find the Holy Grail by punk rock legend Rat Scabies, the one-time drummer of The Damned, with whom Dawes strikes up a friendship when the two become neighbours in the London suburb of Brentford.
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Rat Scabies and the Holy Grail: Can a Punk Rock Legend Find What Monty Python Couldn't?
( Christopher Dawes lives in a quiet English village. His...)
- Rat Scabies And The Holy Grail by Christopher Dawes (2006-03-27)
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Rat Scabies and the Holy Grail: Can a Punk Rock Legend Find What Monty Python Couldn't?
