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this happened two weeks ago but everybody should know about it...

>
>Hi Everybody:
>
>we are very sorry about the yesterday events, actually was the worst day of 
>the whole tour. a real nightmare.
>
>UK Inmigration authorities didnt allow us to enter the United Kingdom.
>After more than 5 hours of friendly Gestapo style checking every milimiter 
>of our bagages and bodies, and staying in a room with a security door (a 
>Jail actually) full of people from countries like Poland, Afghanistan, 
>Iran, etc. they just rejected us.
>
>their "legal" reasons were that we are not allowed to "take employment" in 
>the united kingdom without a special permit, but this was probably only a 
>non-very-imaginative-legal-pretext to avoid our presence there only for our 
>physical aspect, our argentinian passports our strange guitars or any other 
>possible reason related to >the political moment the UK is living.
>
>We have been playing for more than a whole month in Norway, Sweden, 
>Denmark, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland and France without any problem; In 
>our tour we met lots of musicians that played in UK and nobody asked them a 
>"work permit". And in other sense how can you ask a "work permit" to a 
>squat or a non official venue?
>we were only trying to play some few days in UK mostly in small >venues and 
>the only payment was in order to cover the costs of the >trip, which can 
>hardly been conceived as "take employment" on the UK. >We even showed the 
>back flight tickets to Buenos Aires on march 15th >but they rejected us 
>anyway.
>
>They sent it to the french side virtually in the middle of nothing, no bus, 
>no train, anything available. Due to the friendship of fench >police we 
>finally found a taxi and we could afford a (terrible >expensive for our 
>argentinian devaluated  pockets...) trip back to >Paris where Frank de 
>Quengo hopefully gave us asylum.
>
>We are very sorry to cancell all the dates in the UK but our physical 
>bodies are not allowed to go there, however we will be playing all that 
>dates with our spirits and we are also planing to do some conceptual 
>projects to transmutate this sad cultural event.
>
>sorry again
>
>all the best
>
>Reynols
>
>
>

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