Morning 40 Federation

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0><script type="text/javascript" src="http://hb.lycos.com/hb.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ratings.lycos.com/ratings/lycosRating.js.php"></script> <script type="text/javascript"><![CDATA[//><!]]></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://scripts.lycos.com/catman/init.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-start.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-middle.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-end.js"></script> <noscript> <img src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/img/common/ot_noscript.gif?rand=130015" alt="" width="1" height="1" />  <iframe frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" width="728" height="90" src="http://ad.yieldmanager.com/st?ad_type=iframe&ad_size=728x90&section=209094"></iframe>  </noscript> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=125 BGCOLOR="#CC0033" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03c467d1ddthii.gif"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Kristi Singer</b></FONT><B>     |     </b><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Kristi Singer"><U><B>home</b></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=190 BGCOLOR="#111111" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <A HREF="id16.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Writing Samples"><U><B>Back to Articles</b></U></A></div> <div> <B>Back to Up and Coming</b></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.thesilvermachine.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.thesilvermachine.com"><U><B>Morning 40 web site </b></U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=355 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> Morning 40 Federation</div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="603" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 725 WIDTH="398"><div> <B>BIG EASY SOUNDS / Band brings 'sleazy' tunes to Firebelly</b></div> <div> Friday, October 06, 2000 </div> <div> <B>By Kristi Singer, Morning Star Correspondent</b></div> <div> <I>Wilmington Morning Star</I></div> <div> Copyright 2000 Wilmington Star-News</div> <bR> <div>               New Orleans-based Morning 40 Federation is obviously not concerned with being politically correct. </div> <div> If they were, they might not have named themselves after the term for a morning dose or alcohol. </div> <div> Its debut album, You My Brother, refers to alcohol in all of its 12 tracks. </div> <div>              Singer Josh Cohen, bassist Kent Hall, Mike Andrepont is "Lieutenant Andrepont," guitarist Bailey Smith, trombonist "Space" Rickshaw and guitarist Ryan Scully are currently on a tour that will take them from New Orleans to Boston and across the midwest. </div> <div>            The band's manager, Scott Simoneaux of Carport Entertainment, says Morning 40 wishes it could play every single night. </div> <div>            Mr. Rickshaw explained the bands name to Where Y'At, a New Orleans monthly entertainment magazine. </div> <div>            "We had been drinking all night. We were walking down the street and this fellow walked up and said, 'You got 67 cents?' and we just keep walking." Mr. Rickshaw said. "I say to Josh "Why do you think he wanted exactly 67 cents?" Josh says to me 'He needed his morning 40.' </div> <div>            That was the basis of the concept of an organization, a sort of Salvation Army kind of theme, where you would have your kettle full of change outside your corner store," Mr. Rickshaw said. </div> <div>            He explained that people would come by and one would give them enough change before they went into the corner store to get 40 ounces of malt liquor before noon. </div> <div>            "This would be seven to noon, every day of the week. It'd be the Morning 40 Federation," Mr. Rickshaw said. </div> <div>           The band calls its music "sleazy burlesque." </div> <div>            "Some of their songs sound like the background to a sleazy burlesque show," Mr. Simoneaux explained.                </div> <div>           "They're a rock band with the traditional New Orleans horn sound." </div> <bR> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="198"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="725" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="198" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="398"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="398" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="198"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="198" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>