Fri 1st Jan 2010, 5.50pm
Greetings to everyone on this first day of a new decade. Let's hope the rest of Fantastic Fireworks' 25th anniversary year continues in the same spectacular way we started it in Birmingham last night. It was our first New Year's Eve show in the city and we really wanted to make it sing and dance. We were lucky enough to have a perfectly clear, still night with a full moon (including a partial eclipse) and a fantastic location atop the 75m high Hyatt Regency hotel in Centenary Square. As thousands of revellers roared on the chimes of Big Ben our senior firer Paul Roberts signalled the start of the show with a series of mine lifts and a giant Happy New Year set-piece from the roof of the House of Sport. Hot on the heels of this came a 5-minute aerial spectacular fired from the Holliday St car park. As the show rocked on there was a universal gasp of amazement as the roof of the Hyatt suddenly burst into life. Hundreds of comets swept the sky in magical Mexican wave, back and forth, up and across until finally each of the three sites erupted in one awesome final salute. A great way to start the new year!
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