The Hippodrome NYE
Back at the Hippodrome for 2 x 500 drops, another installation I do every year. The nets are pulled up into position from the roof so ladders etc are not required. Previous installations:
NYE 2019
NYE 2019 could have been my busiest day of the year but is it my most profitable… probably not. NYE 2019 I took on less jobs and only worked in locations where it was easy to hang stuff – like The Hippodrome & Novikov. As a result there was time to have fun and eat […]
NYE 2018
This New Years Eve I decided to concentrate on London venues only, I didn’t cover Birmingham for the first time in 28 years. It worked out well and with 3 crew on the 30th and 6 crew on 31st we covered Mayfair, Park Lane, Knightsbridge, Southbank, The O2 and The Ned. Thank you very much […]
NYE 2017
All went to plan this year for New Years Eve. It was 3 long days starting in Brighton on the 29th, London on 30th & London and Birmingham on the 31st. I think next year I might consider missing out Birmingham as I was pretty exhausted (2am to 6pm on the 31st). The light at […]
NYE 2016
This New Years events all went smoothly (a bit like last year). I had more work in London this year including the above photo from The Hippodrome in Leicester Square. You may be interested to know that at the turn of the 19th century live animals were thrown from this balcony. I found the best […]
NYE 2015
For the last 3 years I’ve been decorating a large restaurant in Mayfair early AM before it opens. The venue is made up of several smaller restaurants each serving different styles of food. Previously they’ve ordered 5 large drops and it’s been a tight turnaround to finish before 10am. This year they doubled the order […]
London Metropole
We decorated The Hilton London Metropole with various cloud shapes on 4 floors & a function room. The event was for a Kraft Heinz conference and we only had a 3 hour window to install. See also: Clouds in Mayfair. The decorations included these bunches printed with 10 logos on 5 colour balloons:
O2
Heart shaped latex balloons at The O2 London. A small 200 drop made nice and simple because they lowered the truss. We were back for NYE 2019.
Hippodrome London
This years Hippodrome NYE drop was a straight forward rig as it was a mirror of last years. It’s always easier working somewhere the 2nd time round.
Clouds
To launch a new cloud computing platform we delivered and built clouds in Birmingham, Ashford, Ditton Park & Knutsford. These clouds work better with a high ceiling but in order to install over smaller receptions we needed some low-lying cloud. You might also like these Clouds built in a Mayfair restaurant.
Cloud
This years colour runs are having cloud arches, random balloon sizing like this is very in trend at the moment. Just a quick note to say a huge thank you for your work at the weekend, the balloons looked great and the whole event was a huge success for us. We are looking forward to […]
Turquoise
When a client asks for Turquoise Balloons it usually means 6 possible options. In the Qualatex range there’s Caribbean Blue, Robins Egg Blue (who’s Robin and why are his eggs Blue?) and Tropical Teal. There’s even a Pearl Teal which is a mad dark green which gets even more confusing. In the Belbal range there’s […]