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07/02/2012 Another Successful Season
It seems like a while since we last updated our news section and this has been due to the amount of work that we have had over the previous months. It has been hard finding a moment to update everyone.
Our Guy Fawkes preparation went exceedingly well with fireworks displays being designed and choreographed, fireworks being fused and waterproofed and logistics being managed for so many displays over a three week period.
Once the firing teams were booked and the vans were packed, and there were a lot of them, zero hour had arrived and it was time to start lighting up the skies across most of the UK.
All the displays were a resounding success. There were a few challenges including a couple of displays where the heavens opened and the weather provided its own pyrotechnical display of lightning and thunder but all the displays went exceedingly smoothly. We are receiving a very high number of bookings for 2012 already, in what looks like it will be our busiest Guy Fawkes period to date.
If you do want to book us for this period then please do consider how busy we are, as our company is so popular.
24/08/2011 Pace Setters
As the summer progresses this year, so does the quantity and size of the displays that we are providing all over the UK. The summer has been our busiest on record so far with Frontier Fireworks firing one of the year’s most prestigious displays among many others.
We have also imported more new styles and designs of fireworks to keep our displays ahead of our competition in our professional fireworks range.
The company continues to go from strength to strength in what are frail times for the UK business sector. We are continuing to expand our storage capacity which enables us to import fireworks on a very competitive basis.
With a draft of new regulations and yet more red tape from Europe we are expecting the fireworks industry to be culled through regulations over the coming years. We have secure and vast storage capacity, import, perform displays and sell consumer fireworks to the public and professional fireworks to trade so we are in an excellent position for the future of Frontier Fireworks Ltd.
We look forward to your support over the coming months and years.
04/08/2011 Terry’s All Gold
Terry, one of our Display Managers, had a certain important birthday to celebrate earlier this year. We had a meeting and he decided that he wanted a Son et Lumiere fireworks display all set to music for his special event.
Terry has a very intricate knowledge of what we do and a great understanding of fireworks and displays, so he set us with a very nice complicated challenge of firing a display in a very tight area and on the tops of WWII Air Raid Shelters....thanks Terry. We have to admit that it was one of our more unusual firing sites but we love a challenge. It actually was not his fault at all, it was the venue double booking a cricket match that gave us the headache, but it doesn’t stop us pulling his leg over this anyway.
The display was fired very successfully on what was a rather blustery day and concluded with a gigantic golden brocade finale. Apparently the whole area around the firing site for miles witnessed Terry’s extravagant fireworks display, we were just thankful that not too many people saw the streakers race across the cricket pitch behind us!!!
06/06/2011 Katherine Jenkins Concert
Frontier Fireworks are very happy to announce that we will be performing with the National Symphony Orchestra this summer along with Classical superstar Katherine Jenkins. We were delighted to hear that we had been awarded the contract for working with the best orchestras in the country as we work with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra every year as well.
Performing live choreographed fireworks displays with live orchestral music is always a challenge and to be recognised for the imagination and emotion that are put into these performances by Frontier Fireworks is a great compliment to the heights the company is reaching.
24/05/2011 BBC's Bang Goes The Theory
Frontier Fireworks have once again been involved with helping another television production in 2011. This time our expertise was called upon for the BBC Bang Goes The Theory TV series that explores everything that is scientifically exciting with a different fresh approach to making science appealing for all.
We supplied pyrotechnic fusing to a production company to enable them to design “BANG” with a slow burning fuse. We have many unusual requests every year and are always pleased to help in any way we can.
22/02/2011 Fire Rope Workshops
We have added a new section to our website - Fire Rope Workshops. These workshops have been running for a few years now and have always been a great success. The workshops are aimed at getting people of all ages involved with designing and creating an image that is created with fire. It is a very spectacular art form and it is a great feeling to those involved to see their creations when they are actually lit up and are on fire!
These workshops have proved very popular in both primary and secondary schools but can be run for a large range of groups and events. They would work well for scout and guide groups, community events, established fireworks events and any event where there is an interest in creating a spectacular and unusual art form, so why not have a look at our Fire Rope Workshops page for more information.
13/01/2011 Coldest Show Yet
We performed our coldest show to date in December since the company began trading back in 1996.
We were booked to fire a display in Ramsgate but halfway there we were engulfed in a snowstorm with hardly any visibility. We phoned to see if the event was cancelled (as we were finding it near impossible to stay on the road in some places) to find that they had no snow in Ramsgate, so we fought our way along the roads to get there on time.
We finally arrived and fired the display successfully in -5 without the wind chill factor and then the temperature dropped to -11 on the way back home again....all good fun and well worth the experience......apart from the journey!
16/12/2010 Christmas displays
As many of you start to relax for the Christmas break, we will be firing a number of displays for Christmas Celebrations in the week before Christmas due to postponements caused by the recent snowfall.
We tried in vain to reach some of the displays but the amount of snow that fell in a short space of time left the organisers of several events with no choice but to postpone their events until the week before Christmas.
What we need now is some nice weather, no snow and a steady supply of tea to ensure that all of these events are a great success.
We would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a peaceful and very Merry Christmas.
16/12/2010 Guy Fawkes season
We had an extremely busy summer season firing displays all over the UK. Preparation work for our Guy Fawkes season commenced back in June this year.
We had a whole variety of displays ranging from traditional bonfire celebrations and musical fireworks displays right through to roof top shows with access via vertical hatches.
We had a staggering sixteen displays to fire in a four day period over the Thursday, Friday and 5th November weekend. A total of forty two displays were fired by our team of dedicated pyrotechnicians in a three week period.
As you can imagine the logistical and design work for this amount of displays is quite demanding. Preparing the safety documents is also one of our main paperwork jobs and everyone has their documents at least one month in advance of their display date.