Durruti, I Love You wasn't the title Tuli Márquez had in mind. "The first idea was to call it Durruti Superstar , and it seemed fine to me," explains Guillem Caballero. "But there were the unfortunately contemporaneous circumstances that Arnau Tordera made Sardana Superstar and Rigoberta Bandini Jesucrista Superstar... " "And now I don't know if they're going to sue us for the Tiger Men titled Durruti, I Love You ," says Márquez. "I don't think so. The Tiger Come Zebra are friends on Instagram and they get likes . I saw them the other day in Granollers and they're very happy with the idea. They're phenomenal, a platoon; and look, there's nothing in Granollers..." adds Caballero. Therefore, they're keeping the title Durruti, I Love You , a phrase that FC Barcelona fans will connect with that "Urruti, I love you!" that Joaquim Maria Puyal called when the Barça goalkeeper stopped a penalty in Valladolid, an action that meant winning the 1985 League.
'Durruti, I Love You', a libertarian musical
Writer Tuli Márquez and musician Guillem Caballero are promoting a show about the anarchist leader.
Barcelona"Join so the same old people don't win," sing Guillem Caballero and Joan Colomo. "Join," replies Júlia Soler (trombonist with Les Testarudes). They're at the Caja del Prat de Llobregat, rehearsing for the show. Durruti, I love you, which premiere on September 19 in Vic Live Music Market and which will also be performed on the 23rd at the La Mercè Festival in Barcelona. For now, it's in concert format, although the plan is for it to be presented as musical theater in the future. In any case, it's a show by the Les Solidàries company designed to reclaim anarcho-syndicalist memory through the figures of Buenaventura Durruti (1896-1936) and Mimi Morin (1901-1991). And as references, rock opera Tommy, by The Who; and the political songbook of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht. In fact, the show includes an adaptation of the wonderful Ballad of the Soldier's Wife of Weill and Brecht, contemporaries of Durruti and Morin.
The origin of Durruti I love you comes from afar. In March 2013, Tulio Márquez public The next day (Periscope), a novel in which music was much more than a landscape and in which one of the plots contemplates making a rock opera. "I lived in Barcelona next to the BankRobber store, the record label that released the album that same year Consumer music of the Surfing Sirles. The album cover was a photo of Durruti's funeral," explains Márquez. The libertarian harmony between the writer and the musical group was absolute, but the death of guitarist Uri Caballero led to the end of the Surfing Sirles; in fact, Consumer music It was published posthumously. The project to bring the lives of Durruti and Morin to the stage was shelved until three years ago, when Marçal Lladó of BankRobber told him: "Tuli, you have to talk to Guille."
From the book The Short Summer of Anarchy, by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Márquez wrote the poems that Guillem Caballero later adapted into music. "He had a very clear idea of the project, he just needed to structure it. And when he proposed it to me, I was very excited," recalls Caballero, who, after Surfing Sirles, formed the group Chaqueta de Chándal and who also plays with bands like Feto.
Márquez and Caballero are not interested in the mystery that still surrounds Durruti's death in the first months of the Civil War, but rather in the intense life he led before the war: union mobilization, militancy in the CNT, the general strike of 1917, direct action with the group Los Solida, Los Solida of course, everything that made his funeral one of the most crowded that has taken place in Barcelona, along with that of Francesc Macià and Jacint Verdaguer (as Fetus recalled last year in the song Durruti, Macià and Verdaguer). It's no wonder that anarchism was quite central to the Catalan working class in the 1930s. "What matters most to me now is that we're in a time of super-beastly authoritarianism, and Durruti, despite his shadows, fought for class equality. And he's a figure who, if you look at him from a certain perspective," Márquez says. "And he also has a pop side," Caballero adds.