02/02/2013

Enter Sandbahn

This rather obscure artwork depicts a certain happy go lucky pop group about to ride off into the apocalypse on er...speedway bikes. Well obviously...

The somewhat unlikely scenario was dreamt up by concept artist Calum Alexander Watt back in 2003 for a proposed Playstation driving / riding / shoot-em-up game, complete with suitably heavy soundtrack. The game never made it to market, but the band made a film which documented how utterly dysfunctional they had become and spent the rest of the time suing just about anyone they could think of (hence the reason why I can't quite remember their name.) The only possible clue to the speedway bike connection could be the fact that the drummer was Danish...

Check out more of Mr Watt's awesome artwork on his blog:
http://calumalexanderwatt.blogspot.co.uk/

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