Scarab Mk1 + Slowdive
Friday's Mix: Art + Music
1958 | Mk1 Scarab
Automotive Designer - Emil Deidt.
Lance Reventlow commissioned, financed and raced the Scarab. Sometimes he would declare that he chose the name Scarab for his cars because it was the ancient Egyptian symbol of immortality.
Other times he would claim that choosing Scarab as his brand-name had instead been just an inside joke; naming his car after a lowly dung beetle was his way of thumbing his nose at the contemporary convention of naming cars with what he described as "super-totemistic" names usually the more macho the better.
Album: Souvlaki by Slowdive
Slowdive are an English shoegaze band that formed in Reading, Berkshire in 1989. The band consists of Rachel Goswell on vocals and guitar, Simon Scott on drums, Neil Halstead on vocals and guitar, Nick Chaplin on bass and Christian Savill on guitar.
Several other drummers also briefly played with the band, including Adrian Sell, Neil Carter and Ian McCutcheon. Halstead is the band's primary songwriter.
Goswell and Halstead had known each other since early childhood in Reading, Berkshire. Scott left in 1994 and when Savill and Chaplin left the band soon after the release of Pygmalion, the remaining members renamed the band Mojave 3. Slowdive reunited in 2014.