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PostPosted: 04 Feb 2007, 18:06 
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This from the Stream of Passion website:

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Stream of Passion suffered a terrible blow on Friday afternoon when the band arrived at Calais, France to board the Ferry to England. The Mexican band members were instantly separated from the group, and each other, and were interrogated by British and French Police for four grueling hours. All because the British immigration service was convinced they were intending to take up illegal residence in England.

The immigration service asked Naomi, the band's tour manager, to provide them with evidence to the contrary, and listed the types of documents required. And though Naomi jumped through every one of their newly found hoops, and repeatedly produced whatever documentation they demanded as proof, they could not be persuaded. Even with the help from the kind promotors of the concerts in England, various Embassy officials, and immigrant agents in Britain (who told the tour manager there shouldn't have been any problem for them to enter the UK in the first place) there was no changing their minds. This eventually led to the 'deportation' of Marcela, Alejandro and Diana without any possibility for them to get to England to perform the shows.

It appears the Mexicans have fallen unfortunate victims of, as one British Immigration agent trying to help said: "the new British political flavor of the year: 'we hate all immigrants'".

Stream of Passion returned home that same day, extremely disappointed and disillusioned with the proceedings. They wish to apologize to all the British fans and to those fans who travelled from various countries all over the world, for being unable to make it to these last two shows. They deeply regret not being able to perform for you this last time, as they were also so much looking forward to meeting you all again.


This is appalling. It makes me ashamed to be British.


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:roll: this is amazingly stupid from both UK and FR services...
I mean come on, it doesnt take you hours to realise you didnt actually find illegal immigration.. I mean I dont see lots of illegal immigrant travelling with intruments...

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yeah... absolutely... ridiculous


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See also guitarist Lori Linstruth's blog at http://lorinator.feminoise.com/my-take-on-the-stream-of-passion-uk-immigration-nonsense


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damn, that was experience :o
unbelievable

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This is sick. I'm sorry to all the fans and I'm just glad that I didn't
go to UK to see them, instead I went to Denmark. This kind of thing
is not suprise to me since I travel a lot I've seen it before.
Immigration officials can be very nasty sometimes.

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Haha, well you know what they say about us Mexicans and illegal immigration... apparently now illegal immigrants think getting into the US is too easy so they want a real challenge, illegally entering a country on the other side of the ocean. Now that's a challenge!
Seriously, it would be funny if it wasn't so damn sad. And here I was thinking we only had this problem with the US...

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I know Alejandro and Marcela, and im really sorry for em. Didnt the british inmigration guys noticed all the instruments??

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Don't forget that this happened at the Calais ferry terminal. The immigration officers probably won't have seen the instruments - and that's because they'd have been stowed away in the big, Dutch-registered tourbus in which the band and their support people would have been travelling.

I too know Marcela to some extent. I was in touch with her on another forum before Stream of Passion was put together, and we finally met in Rotherham last year. You will know what a sweet-natured person she is, delighted to be part of this successful band and enjoying the experience to the full for as long as it lasts. So, last year my wife, Marcela and I link arms to pose for a photograph after the Rotherham gig, and this year she's humiliated and intimidated over a period of four hours by people who have no interest in who she is, their only focus being the fact that she's carrying a Mexican passport.


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Very disappointing for everyone who got tickets... I'm glad I didn't in the end :(


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The Classic Rock Society are currently referring to the gigs as "postponed", I think, so they may yet get rescheduled.


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Lucky people who can see Stream of Passion live.
Hopefully their European tour will soon continue despite of these troubles.

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