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***IMPORTANT CAMPAIGN UPDATE - FOR THE SECOND TIME PASSING CLOUDS UNLAWFULLY OCCUPIED AND SECURED BY COUNTRY ENFORCEMENT GROUP***

Dear Passing Clouds Community,

As you may have already heard there have been some dramatic developments in the ongoing battle for Passing Clouds’ survival. Only a couple of weeks ago, following a successful meeting with our landlords Landhold Developments and their solicitors, we were formally offered in writing a new 15 year lease. There had been a substantial 320% rent increase required but, as we were in negotiations, we were asked to work on a business plan and come back with our thoughts so we could enter into the the next stage. 

However, just 5 days after receiving the lease offer we found our building plastered in eviction proceedings and were duly taken to court. We were given an adjournment of only 4 working days in which to seek specialist legal advice. At the second court date we argued that we hadn’t had enough time to prepare our case but the judge claimed that we had no case at all and ordered possession forthwith. By law, District Judge Manners should have recused herself (stepped down from proceedings) as she had been the judge who ruled against us in an identical situation 5 years previously with our previous landlady. In that case she had also said we had no legal defence and refused an adjournment and possession forthwith. We subsequently proved her wrong by putting in a appeal, demonstrated that we did in fact have a very strong case and won the lease back. In court we told Judge Manners that she was biased and should not be sitting on the case, to which she responded “Yes, I am biased”. She still refused to step down. 

We therefore are certain that we have a very strong case for appeal in the High Court, especially since we had just been offered a lease just a few days before. In what we believe is a deliberate attempt to prevent us from going to the High Court to obtain a stay of execution on the possession order, Landhold and their solicitors Philip Ross & Co. rushed through a possession in just one working day, forcibly breaking into Passing Clouds at 4am on Tuesday 15th August with a team of more than 40 bailiffs and a specialist climbing team. 

Sadly County Enforcement Group are now in full time occupation of the building and our windows and doors are boarded up with metal hoardings. We do not believe that they had obtained the necessary legal paperwork to enforce the eviction and therefore it is once again unlawful. As a result, we are now starting a High Court action against Landcom North London Ltd, Garry Simpson (director of Landhold Developments), Philip Ross Solicitors, and County Enforcement Group for breach of contract, fraud, conspiracy to defraud, conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and conspiracy to cause economic loss. 

Further to this we are going to be making a claim for damages to cover the cost of purchasing a suitable venue that we have found in the local area at a price tag of £20m. We have spent 6 years looking for numerous venues in London to which to relocate our business without success and we therefore see this as the only viable circumstance in which Passing Clouds can continue without it’s present building. In addition we will be suing for costs associated with damage to our business, to our reputation, to our brand and to the lives of all the staff, musicians, promoters, and the local community who have suffered financial loss, emotional trauma and personal duress as a result of this malicious and unlawful action. 

We have endured a 9-month litany of deceit, broken promises and fraudulent offers made by Landhold in what we can only assume was a deliberate and thoroughly underhand attempt to double-cross us and disable our ability to counteract this unscrupulous behaviour from nothing less than rogue and unlawful property developers. Therefore, with the support of a large number of concerned community groups and campaign organisations, dignitaries and national media, on the 10th September 2016 Passing Clouds is organising the March For London’s Dead Culture in the Dalston area to raise further awareness of the devastating plight that Passing Clouds has suffered, and in solidarity with other groups who have suffered at the hands of Landcom North London (Landhold Developments), or other underhand development companies in our community. More details will be forthcoming and we strongly urge everyone who loves Passing Clouds, or has been affected by the onslaught of the malevolent behemoth of rogue property developers, to be involved in this important and historic occasion. 

Following the March we will be making formal representations to the new mayor of Hackney (who will be sworn in a few days after), calling for a public consultation on the future of Passing Clouds’ building, and for the mayors of London and Hackney to draw up a watchlist of rogue property developers. 

In the meantime if you would like to ask any further questions regarding this matter, or voice your concerns about what has happened to us, please contact one or all of the following: 

Landhold Developments - [email protected]/020 8446 6700 

MP Meg Hillier - [email protected]/@Meg_HillierMP

Mayor Sadiq Khan who is publicly campaigning to protect music scene - [email protected]/@SadiqKhan 

With your continued help and support this is not the end, this is the beginning of a new chapter in the history of PC and the wider community that it represents. We have a full-time campaign office upstairs at The Hagerstown pub who have been amazingly supportive and accommodating. If you would like to come down, please get in touch via [email protected].

Much love and eternal blessings xxx

#PassingCloudsForever

Posted on August 19, 2016 and filed under latest news.

Passing Clouds Featured in Hackney Today!

Passing Clouds is so proud to have been featured in Hackney Today! This insightful local paper profiled our Company Director, Eleanor Wilson in their May 23rd issue, as part of the coverage of our Ten Year Anniversary.

The article - which features Eleanor as one of their "Hackney People" - makes an interesting read. Have a look below to discover more about the roots of Passing Clouds, and how we came to exist at the heart of Dalston. As Eleanor says in the interview: "Over the decade, we have gone from being the black sheep, to being cherished by the community".

Keep an eye out for exciting events coming up to celebrate #TenYearsofPassingClouds. So far we've had iconic acts like Lee Scratch Perry, Sun Ra Arkestra and Osibisa come down to mark the occasion. Next up it's Soothsayers & Dennis Bovell with Gaudi & the Hempolics on July 1st!

Posted on June 7, 2016 and filed under latest news, interviews.

INCOMING MESSAGE FROM PASSING CLOUDS!

Oh wondrous and magical members of the Passing Clouds community. We have been receiving much correspondence from you regarding the future of our magnificent ship and would like to thank you all for your concern. 

Yes indeed, we come up against the carnivorous thrust of gentrification once again, but no fear, Passing Clouds has a few cards in its glitter pack of love weaponry being flexed right now, so all is positive and blessed! 

In truth far worse situations have been sent to challenge us during our ten year herstory but, praise Jah, here we still stand here now. 

All that exists after all is the present and at present, all stands strong like a lion! 

But graciously, we invite you to include in your daily meditations and visualisations a great bubble of protective golden love energy around our beloved establishment so that we may continue to flourish and radiate the highest vibrations. 

Thank you truly once more. May the Goddess bring protection and guidance, 

Passing Clouds Collective xxx

Posted on April 5, 2016 and filed under latest news.

Ebola: Colloidal Silver Solution!

As part of our mission to promote a healthier world and education about effective natural solutions to disease, members of Passing Clouds have been contracted by the Gambian government to present work that suggests Colloidal Silver as a prevention and treatment for the Ebola virus.

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The Ebola virus, which has been ravaging West Africa (in particular Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone) since an outbreak late last year spread cross continent, has to date seen no meaningful progress developing a treatment.  Protective measures such as improved hygiene, reduced contact with animals and quarantine have so far been suggested whilst Glaxo Smith Kline (those guys behind such scandals as anti-depressants for children frauds, Syrian drug bribery and general corruption/poison-pushing) have said they plan to launch a new vaccine in September 2014.

However, as the report Passing Clouds members prepared shows Colloidal Silver works as a silver nanoparticle neutralization of hemorrhagic fever viruses....in other words it can heal those effected by Ebola.

How?

Well....

  • Colloidal Silver works as a catalyst to disable and inhibit the enzyme that bacteria, viruses and fungi need for oxygen metabolism
  • Is an antimicrobial agent, with reports of its therapeutic use dating back thousands of years
  • Silver, often in nano-particle form, is widely used as a component in numerous medical and health treatments to kill bacteria, for example in water filtration systems, wound dressings, medicinal creams, or as an antibiotic coating on medical devices.

Plus...

  • There are no known harmful side effects when taken in safe doses
  • It is easy to source and acquire and is made with accessible production methods from a single, pure, base metal and water
  • It is extremely and cost effective and relatively simple to produce anywhere in the world

We'll keep you updated as the Ebola crisis is addressed, hopefully this time with common sense rather than Big Pharma.

Posted on August 27, 2014 .

Hemplics talks to the Clouds

The Hempolics talk to us backstage after their storming gig at Passing Clouds on 1st August

The Hempolics talk to us backstage after their storming gig at Passing Clouds on 1st August

1st August. It's a hot night, the kind of rare hot night in London when everyone is in a sunny mood to match. The Hempolics have just come off the Passing Clouds stage, the first headliner to tread the (at the time still unfinished) refurbished downstairs since we undertook a makeover.

Posted on August 14, 2014 and filed under latest news, interviews.

Electric Jalaba THIS FRIDAY!!

'ELECTRIC JALABA' by Gina Southgate

'ELECTRIC JALABA' by Gina Southgate

 

ELECTRIC JALABA bring their brand of Psychedelic Gnawa, haunting vocals and driving North African rhythms to the Passing Clouds stage this Friday, as part of a Sahara Gnawa event.  The space-age band is a collaboration between electro-groovers Soundspecies and Gnawa master musician Simo Lagnawi that slinks along like the best desert blues yet kicks like the subtlest kind of dub. Also live on stage on Friday are highly anticipated sets from KEL ASSOUF and ZAHED SULTAN.  See you there!