“Ceaseless professionalism – you were the stars of the show”
Jim Whewell, Head of Production, the Secret Garden Party (voted the UK’s Best Small Festival 2008)
‘That was amazing; totally unexpected; just heard a big bang and all of a sudden the pirate ship was on fire…’
(youtube user: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maEdesHUgkY)
“At 9pm, the entire festival is gathered, both sides of the lake, as hundreds of fire spinners whirl flaming hoops and chains around their bodies. Flames lick at the side of the tower, the masses cheer hungrily and then an explosion sets off a chorus of rockets, lighting up the thousands of excited faces and setting off a whole festival of fireworks. All around us there’s sighing, cooing, cheering, a thousand ‘wows’, a mass exaltation of love. Everywhere you look, arms are thrown round the shoulders of friends. Chinese lanterns float serenely into the night sky and hang there, slightly uncertainly. The tower burns. It burns until all that’s left is the scaffolding frame. Fireworks are still soaring skywards, snowflakes exploding in ultra-violet puffs; dandelion clocks which keep coming, like someone is blowing those clocks all over this collection of peaceful, happy people.”
http://www.spoonfed.co.uk/spooners/lowri-257/secret-garden-party-2009-1301/
“Saturday night concluded with the spectacular burning of the Tower of Babel, as fireworks lit up the sky, an Armada of burning lanterns sailed off towards the horizon, and fire dancers performed beneath trees lit green and blue. “It’s magical, dad,” said my son.”
