London New Year’s Eve fireworks organisers reveal biggest concern of night in behind-the-scenes look

London New Year's Eve fireworks behind the scenes as organisers reveal biggest concern of night. Source: PA

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00:00 biggest anxiety for me is the London Eye itself because we can't actually rig any

00:04 fireworks on there. So we're privileged here to be loading and rigging the

00:07 largest display in the country for New Year's Eve in London. We've got nearly

00:11 12,000 individual fireworks which we're loading onto these three barges. They

00:15 weigh close to five tonne and we've got over 30 tonne of equipment that our 20

00:20 crew here need to load. We start work on the 27th and we should be finished

00:25 hopefully tomorrow when all the barges will go up to the river and ready for

00:29 that midnight moment. So we start the creative process in August and the

00:33 first place we always start with is the music. That's the the key to the to the

00:37 whole show. That's the spine and the music informs the choreography of the

00:41 fireworks, the type, the tempo, the pace, the volume, the intensity and once we've

00:46 got the music we then sit down for probably about two week process to do

00:50 that design, the choreography. We have a simulation software which we can

00:53 present to the clients so they can critique it and then normally the design

00:57 is signed off and finished around about mid-November and then that gives us four

01:01 to five weeks in our factory to pick and prep and number and label all of the

01:04 fireworks, fuse everything together and box it ready to load all the vehicles

01:08 and start work on the 27th. The biggest anxiety for me is the London Eye itself

01:13 because we can't actually rig any fireworks on there until the night

01:17 itself. Six o'clock we start. We normally don't finish rigging the eye until close

01:21 to ten o'clock at night so literally two hours to go.