Solo!

11/23/2025

This is a sort romantic version of “Brassed Off” (1996) set in the sunshine. To begin with, trumpeting busker “Barney” (Tristam Summers) isn’t devastated when he learns of his father’s death - it seems that they’d been estranged for years. He goes to the funeral though, only for a man to claim his trumpet in lieu of £10,000 owed by his late dad. On the plus side, he appears to have been left a house in Barx, near Valencia, so off he sets on his scooter to view then sell up his inheritance then return to repossess his instrument. After being splattered with paint, his first point of contact ends up being friendly innkeeper “Enrique” (Jaime Pujol) who informs him that he’d perhaps best be quiet about his family provenance, and who takes him to a ramshackle building that nobody in their right