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Corrido de la Sangre
HOME, Manchester/Touring
COMMISSIONED by HOME as part of their Viva! Spanish and Latin American festival, the Tiger Lillies bring their macabre Day of the Dead operetta to Manchester.
The trio of minstrels have toured the world with their uniquely anarchic Brechtian street operas and, as their founder and band leader Martyn Jacques (pictured)boasts, “We will play songs about anything that doesn’t involve beautiful blonde girls and boys running in the meadow.”
Relishing the dark underbelly slithering beneath polite society, their repertoire revels in the world of drug dealers, murderers and prostitutes, where life is clouded in violence and despair, and in Corrido de la Sangre the band tells the story in song of vicious drug baron Don Hector.

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