Passing Clouds: Protesters 'reclaim' much-loved Dalston music club as it battles imminent closure | London | News | London Evening Standard #olsx #occupy

Passing Clouds: Protesters 'reclaim' much-loved Dalston music club as it battles imminent closure | London | News | London Evening Standard

Delighted: Campaigners are all smiles after reclaiming Passing Clouds www.borisaustin.com

Protesters have “reclaimed” a celebrated east London music venue after landlords changed the locks.

Passing Clouds in Dalston, one of London’s leading platforms for alternative music for more than a decade, faces closure as its lease is at an end.

The owners of the building took it back last week. Those running the club thought its lease ran until August and protesters occupied the building on June 16, allowing Passing Clouds to continue operating.

The venue, which opened in 2006, was sold last September to a new landlord, Landhold Developments.

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Eleanor Wilson, who founded Passing Clouds, is collecting a petition and wants a lease extension or the possibility of buying the premises, just off Kingsland Road.

It hosts a variety of music styles, particularly world and African, and a weekly People’s Kitchen that makes use of donated food and offers it to community groups free of charge.