one of my favourite displays I designed when I had my compan

[igual]

First few secs are a but crappy camera wise , this was filmed from where we ( the crew were about 30 metres ) budget was £5000

[igual]

Also my fave pictures from one of our displays that I edited on adobe

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I like the twisty sizzlers which shoot up in the air. Normally white and gold. Also the ones which twizzle of midair

[sammy13]

That was a fantastic display igual .

[igual]

Hmm twizzles are either tourbillions or if they make a wizzing farting sound they are lions.

[flavourtank]

fantastic display beats most of the ones i see.

igual what did you do for the rest of the year cos there doesnt seem to be much mention of fireworks after this session between now and new year

[Brambles]

Sheesh, I wondered what happened if you overcharged an ecig battery, now I know. Thanks for sharing igual.

[sammy13]

igual at the Stockton Weekender Festival in 2011 , on the final night they announced there was a pyrotechnics show somewhere.

Oooh fireworks I thought so headed off with the masses.

It wasn't just fireworks though, it was a pyrotechnics team from France, and I have never seen a show like it, these guys literally played with fire.
Totally amazing. Unfortunately I have no clue who they were.

[igual]

May well have been group F in collaboration with kimbolton fireworks

[sammy13]

Nov 5, 2014 23:19:43 GMT igual said:

May well have been group F in collaboration with kimbolton fireworks

You are totally correct, I just looked it up.

When I got home after Stockton, I checked their webpage to see if they were going to be doing any other localish shows, and now you have given me the name it is indeed them.

I guess they are too big and too expensive to do little shows.

www.groupef.com/

[igual]

Ye lol they do shows £50k + normally lol.
Tbh they are good but whomever picks their material needs a headslap
90% really good quality like you'd expect then they fire up a load of crud.
To the untrained peeps still looks amazing but ocassionaly you see cheap or poorly made bits.
Partucially in the lower calibre shells.
I'm not picking though honestly

[sammy13]

Nov 5, 2014 23:53:59 GMT igual said:

Ye lol they do shows £50k + normally lol.
Tbh they are good but whomever picks their material needs a headslap
90% really good quality like you'd expect then they fire up a load of crud.
To the untrained peeps still looks amazing but ocassionaly you see cheap or poorly made bits.
Partucially in the lower calibre shells.
I'm not picking though honestly

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Do you mean they get paid as a company £50k, or that it costs them £50k to put the show on? Either way its a lot of bloomin money.

Their men who are performing in the shows must get paid mega, but they deserve it.

I couldn't believe they were at Stockton, its a small festival, most of it free to the public. You just paid a nominal amount to see the bands .

That maybe why it ended last year, Group F wiped them out financially.

[igual]

Normally say you wanted a display I'd come visit look at the site, get all info.
You'd give me a budget say £10k now I could make that 10k last 24 hours or 24 seconds lol.
So say you wanted an intense show lasting 10 mins I'd aim to burn 500-800 a minute and last 30 seconds 1k. So cost of fireworks would be in the £7500 2 men to prep 2 days £220 insurance contribution 600
4 guys on day not including marshals £600 rest goes to cover costs a bit of profit taxman etc etc.
A lot of what we did was for charity. As we all had other jobs so we'd take a little beer money and give our time in trade for more fireworks for them.
I started doing displays legally at 18 and we as a group over 12 years raised over £250k for charity, something I'm very proud of, we ran 3 events ourselfs catering, music,pyro,pig roast etc etc. And everything was donated after costs.
Biggest event we did had 4k peeps on average.

[sammy13]

It must have been a very enjoyable 12 years

[igual]

Ye I do miss it a lot, this is the first year I haven't let anything off on bonfire night for ages lol.
Think I'd piss the neighbours off if I let a 16" shell off in back garden
Double glazing firms would like it though lol.