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THE FLOATING MEN'S JEFF HOLMES LAUNCHES FALL SOLO TOUR
 
ACCLAIMED STATESMAN OF AMERICANA LIT-ROCK DEBUTS "NO CLOCKS, NO
CALENDARS"
GULLAH INSPIRED LYRICS AND SOUTHERN LITERATURE ROCKED INTO A TWO PART
OPERA
 
 
Nashville, TN, July 2008:  Front man Jeff Holmes of indie cult legends
The Floating Men will take to the road solo this fall to debut music
from the band's upcoming 2009 opera and album, "No Clocks, No
Calendars".  The 30+ city tour will include venues ranging from clubs,
theaters, art houses and house concerts.  Following Holmes' tour, the
band will undertake recording the entire two hour opera. 
 
"No Clocks, No Calendars" marks one of the band's most compelling and
ambitious projects to date, combining smart indie-rock with all the
haunt and weight that has lead the band to be cast as "emerging Southern
Literature icons, and perhaps the most quietly influential indie-cult
sleeper band since The Velvet Underground."*
 
In concert Holmes will present the opera in two acts and librettos
following the storyline with stage direction and character sketches will
be available.
 
"The show is set roughly in the year 1973 and takes place in a sea
island beach town off the lower South Carolina coast in the heart of
Gullah country, where the legends, history and folklore are rich and
colorful, but with modern conveniences such as cell phones to give it an
'outside-of-time' quality," notes Holmes.
 
The story centers on a handful of townies during a single summer, the
peak tourist season, from Memorial Day through Labor Day and follows
their loves, heartbreaks and personal struggles with touches of
tenderness, adult humor and tragedy.  Their carefree beach life is
disrupted when an ancient evil spirit, based loosely on the Gullah
folklore figures the "hag" and the "plat-eye," secretly kills one of the
characters and takes over the body as a host and plans to kill again.
 
"The evil spirit steals the souls of its victims by appearing to them as
their true love, so, somebody's lover is dead, and their body has been
taken over by an evil spirit, but nobody knows who it is.," Holmes
reveals. "There is no violence, there is however, adult content
including language and marijuana references - it's 1973 for crying out
loud - and tasteful, playful, but adult sexual content, including a
strong attitude in favor of sexual liberties."