# Rat Scabies and Chris Constantinou

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Podcast: [The Strange Brew - artist stories behind the greatest music ever recorded](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-strange-brew-artist-stories-behind-the-greatest-music-ever-recorded-542372)
Published: 2026-04-10T03:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://thestrangebrew.co.uk/rat-scabies-and-chris-constantinou/
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Rat Scabies needs little introduction as the thunderous drummer of The Damned. His collaborator in One Thousand Motels, Chris Constantinou, has had a career that has taken him from the studio with Chas Chandler, to the Live Aid stage at Wembley with Adam Ant, and into the recording booth with Sinéad O’Connor. Rat and Chris describe how they first met through The Mutants, a collaborative project that assembled an unlikely roll-call of rock veterans including Wilco Johnson, Wayne Kramer and Norman Watt-Roy. That project proved too unwieldy to tour so they stripped it back, formed a two-man core, and called it One Thousand Motels. The result was 2% Out of Sync , an album that has taken almost six years to find its way onto vinyl, and into listeners’ hands. Further information One Thousand Motels – 2% Out of Sync – vinyl Rat Scabies and Chris Constantinou podcast tracks Support The Strange Brew Podcasts also available:  Rat Scabies , Paul Cook – Sex Pistols , Don Powell – Slade , Jim Lea – Slade Part 1 , Jim Lea – Slade Part 2 This podcast is also available on  Apple Podcasts ,  Spotify ,  YouTube , Google apps and all usual platforms If you like what I do  please support me on Ko-fi The post Rat Scabies and Chris Constantinou appeared first on The Strange Brew .

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