ECONOMIC IMPACT STUDY
BRIGHTON 64
BRIGHTON 64, the Barcelona-based band that stands as a living part of our country’s musical history, comes to MMVV with a very special concert for two reasons: first, it will mark the official premiere of their new album, Se traspasa (BCore Disco, 2025), but it will also serve as the starting point for the band’s farewell tour, which will take place throughout 2026 and bring to a close a career that began in the 1980s and leaves behind a legacy of songs and live performances that are hard to match.
The hippies were still in power, and strength and efficiency were needed to clean up the scene. In the early 1980s, in grey Barcelona, Brighton Beach mattered more than Barceloneta. Seeing the Gil brothers live or running into them at a bar meant catching a dose of elegance, power, and style. It meant leveling up. “La casa de la bomba” got our hips moving, and “Y yo solo en casa con Sam Cooke” introduced us to soul. Power pop, clean and extended guitar solos, and playing standing up with legs wide apart. That was our moral catechism. The first BRIGHTON 64 lasted around six years, but they left behind a prophetic message that we now understand and revere: “The problem is age.”
Antonio Baños
Journalist
