THE 2007 British Musical
Fireworks Championships where held in the Kings Gardens,
Southport, Merseyside, over the 5 October 2007 to the 7 October 2007.
The event this year (2007) attract over
10,000 spectators each evening and uses up to 1/2 tonne of
fireworks and shells that reached heights of over 600ft.
The event was short listed for
The Mersey Partnership Annual Tourism Award of "Best
Tourism Experience 2006/07", so it was no wonder
that contestants from all over the UK begging to enter. In
fact, this year, the event organisers, Sefton MBC, had to
make a list of 20 British fireworks companies who all wanted
to take part in the championships. To pick who would be entered, a ballot
was drawn up and the six team names picked. These names where then declared earlier on in the year.
This years amazing championship
had a tremendous standard that was upheld over the three
days, with two displays each evening lasting sixteen to
eighteen minutes, fired to a musical theme. Each competitor,
as normal, selected a unique musical programme, which was
then played at the venue, so that the fireworks could be
synchronised...
To find out more about what happened, please
see our report we ran last week by clicking
here.
We can now release the names of this years winners of the
2007 BMFC as the following:-
First place was awarded to local Kent based company Phoenix
Fireworks Ltd. from Wrotham.
Second place went to Pyromania Displays Ltd, with their
stunning display.
A close third place was awarded to Festival Fireworks Ltd.
“It’s a great privilege to have had out wits pitted against
some of the best companies in the country and to have come
out of the championships as the top pyromusical fireworks
display company in Britain
Of all the fireworks competitions in the UK, there
are only two that matter and this is one of them” said Ken Fifield, Director of Sales & Marketing at Phoenix Fireworks
Ltd.
“We used music that really suited fireworks and gave
great scope to do some advanced computer sequences that
wowed the crowd.
The venue at Southport has a lake in front of it where the
judges sit, so we used fans of silver comets springing out
of the lakeside casting huge glittering reflections...”
said Alex Selby Phoenix’s chief designer.
