Chairs In The Arno
Chucking stuff into rivers makes for good band names
As the story goes, friends Jeff Excell, Jeff Knight and Ryan Fly launched plastic chairs into Italy’s Arno river, an event which later served as the muse for their band’s name: Chairs In The Arno.
On the other hand, I, along with four other friends on a Halloween night years ago, purchased a huge pumpkin from a 24-hour gas station which we transported onto the Quebec Bridge and propelled over and onto Champlain Boulevard below. This is the first time I ever use that event as a creative device.
Lesson? Wanton jettisoning of awkward objects into public spaces is grounds for future inspiration. Whether it be from a band who chunk out delightfully fun, unabashedly geeky Moog-hugging IDM music, or a writer desperately hoping he’ll come across as clever.
MP3: Chairs In The Arno - Winter Song
www.chairsinthearno.com/
myspace.com/chairsinthearno
Comments
August 5th, 2008 | 1:50 am
Hi there friend - thanks for posting about Chairs. I thought it was clever!
I wanted to drop a quick note to say that they have a new blog: http://cita-naps.blogspot.com/
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