Hayley, the Girl Fawkes among the Guys!
With more than 150 displays coming up in the next two weeks, the Fantastic Fireworks teams are all fired up for the premier date of the year. Pyrotechnicians are predominantly male but ranking high among our pool of more than 200 is one of the few females in the business. Hayley Maddin has enjoyed a meteoric rise since arriving three years […] Read more12Sep 11
Raising the roof at Hatfield House
Our biggest fireworks display of the year, and the longest if not the biggest in the country since London New Year’s Eve, lit up the Hertfordshire skyline last weekend. As one of the leading UK fireworks display companies Fantastic Fireworks was commissioned by Lord Salisbury to mark the 400th anniversary of his majestic stately home […] Read moreEddie Iz back with a bang!
Growing up in the midst of the Sussex Bonfire Societies has turned Eddie Izzard into the big firework fan he is today. Some 30 years on, Eddie, who hails from Bexhill on Sea, has added pyrotechnics to his hilarious comedy routine of madcap philosophy, history and religion. Following the success of last year’s open air […] Read moreFantastic Fireworks mark TT Festival centenary
It’s one of the world’s great sporting events and as leading UK firework display organisers, Fantastic Fireworks were proud to be part of it. The 2011 Isle of Man TT races celebrated 100 years of the mountain course and we were asked to lay on a spectacular centenary fireworks display. Our fireworks display director Steve Boothman, head […] Read moreFoo Fighters go out in a blaze as Henley rocks
As the leading UK fireworks display company we are often asked to put on shows at short notice, so when we got the call to send Foo Fighters out with a bang last weekend, we were on the way to Milton Keynes before you could say Long Road to Ruin! It was a fantastic experience to be […] Read moreDelivering the WOW factor to your door
Staging amazing firework displays is only half of what we do. The other half is providing a dazzling array of fireworks for sale to let off safely at home. We have scores of schools, scout groups, clubs & communities who buy fireworks online and stage their own firework displays each year, many raising thousands of pounds for […] Read more07Apr 11
Here comes summer fireworks!
Celebs were out in force for the annual Pimm’s Summer Party at the Garden Museum in Lambeth. The celebration marked the clocks going forward to BST and the opportunity to sample the first Pimm’s of 2011. The event organisers Creative Styling called in Fantastic Fireworks to put their client’s name in lights and create some […] Read moreWe do like to be beside the seaside
The supermoon, which some have blamed for all sorts of recent world catastrophes, was in a benevolent mood in Brighton on Saturday night. Rising in a giant orb of pale orange it stood sentinel over a calm sea and near perfect conditions as our latest firework display took us down to the South Coast to […] Read more01Jan 11