Christmas 1984 saw Roland's Countdown to Christmas. TV-am sold Roland Rat advent calendars, with Roland opening each door with the viewers at 7:20 am every day, The final door had Roland and his friends in the snow. Claridge's interest in music from Japan soon morphed from a club night into a fully fledged mobile entertainment experience in the form of The Mobile Suit. Featuring New Wave from almost every corner of the Far East (and, as a curveball, Poland), The Mobile Suit would travel around the country putting on club nights to spread the word about these curious new sounds.

You know, I still don't really know who David Claridge is. Sure, he's a true visionary and incredibly talented, but he's managed to keep his puppet creations at the forefront of people's attention rather than shine the light on himself. Perhaps he feels that revealing too much of the magic behind them somehow confirms the fact that they're not fully conscious beings. This hints at a true dedication to his art and can only be applauded for the lengths he has gone to achieve this, although, I suspect this is as simple as not granting interviews. Ultimately, Claridge's aim was to start releasing this music onto vinyl and this eventually surfaced in the form of Tokyo Mobile Music 1, a compilation put together by The Mobile Suit Corporation and featuring artists such as Akiko Yano, Salon Music and Lizard. The record also featured ambient sounds served up by the auditory delights on offer from the streets of Tokyo that Claridge recorded in June 1981.Most of his videos consist of Crisp Rat reacting to internet memes and popular media with his character. He'll sometimes react to YouTubers who get into drama or talk about StinkyBlueRat specifically. He also creates skits parodically summarizing YouTubers or media where he'll create his own puppets or use different action figures, such as Godzilla, OneyPlays, or Spider-Man. Cut out the quarters – each one will make one mouse. Keep the off course for the paper mice details!

no 1 rat fan | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com . Retrieved 30 October 2019.Roland Rat offers to rescue ITV's Daybreak breakfast show yeahhh!". asda.com. 21 October 2010. Archived from the original on 6 December 2010 . Retrieved 23 November 2010. rat rapping (brilliant isn't it) | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com . Retrieved 30 October 2019. Determined to become a puppeteer from an early age, Claridge began taking this art form seriously at the age of 12 when he began attending lessons at the Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham to learn about acting, mime and puppetry. Within a few years, Claridge had made significant process and, it's fair to say, found his groove as not just a puppeteer, but also a designer and actor. All of this progress had been made under the watchful eye of John M Blundall and his Cannon Hill Theatre company. Just as Roland Rat was beginning to reach stratospheric levels of fame and popularity, though, The Sun and The Daily star published stories which revealed a little known association from Claridge's recent past. The tabloids had discovered that Claridge had established a rubber/latex fetish night called Skin Two at gay club Stallions in Falconberg Court, Soho. Rat on the Road II (Summer 1984) – featured Kevin's cover of Summer Holiday and Roland's cover of Love Me Tender.

Tired of popular music by bands by such as Visage, I fell in love with new music from the East that's exciting and fresh - not discovered and swiftly destroyed. Bands to include: Do, Mastoshi and Sandii. I´ve coupled that music with Oriental imagery ranging from China's Cultural Revolutionary Period to Japanese Kabuki, Bunraku even Thai fisherman's wear and Cantonese Opera" Colour in the tear drop ears for the mouse, add glue to the bottom and glue half way along the cone. Roland appeared in the fourth episode of the second series of Ashes to Ashes. This appearance was anachronistic, as the show is set in 1982 whereas Roland did not debut until the following year.The show was a chat show filmed in Roland’s sewer home underneath London’s Kings Cross Railway Station. Roland Rat – The Cassette of the Album". 991.com. Archived from the original on 21 October 2012 . Retrieved 24 April 2012. The half-term week of October 1984 saw Operation FOGI (Free Our Glenis Immediately) which revolved around the gang's attempts – eventually successful – to liberate Glenis The Guinea Pig from her life in the pets department of Harrods. Following enormous demand, the season was repeated across subsequent Sundays for the benefit of school pupils whose half term had not fallen the week of the series' transmission. The OWRRAS Summer Spectacular (Summer 1985) – This stood for Official Worldwide Roland Rat Appreciation Society. Broadcast in the summer of 1985, a studio based programme like The Spectacular Shedvision Show and the half-term series Roland Live. The last TV-am Roland Rat series. The series purported to be broadcast from Roland's personal channel BBC3, complete with "THREE" ident spoofing BBC2's " TWO" ident of the period. [7]

Cute two tear drops for ears, one long thing piece of paper for the tail (curl with scissors) and two shorter thin strips of paper for whiskers. Roland Rat is a British television puppet character. He was created, operated and voiced by David Claridge, who had previously designed and operated Mooncat, a puppet in the Children's ITV television programme Get Up and Go!. Claridge worked for Jim Henson, then the second series of The Young Ones. Claridge would later operate and voice Brian the Dinosaur for BBC's Parallel 9, create and direct Happy Monsters, a preschool series for Channel 5, and shoot a CGI series, Mozart's Dog, for Paramount Comedy.Anne Wood C.B.E. – The Children's Media Foundation". Thechildrensmediafoundation.org . Retrieved 14 May 2014. I would like people to accept rubber clothing more. I’d like to see it on the High Street. Some dress up in appreciation of the fabric. Some like bondage and whipping. A lot of whipping goes on"