Arches, Drops & Races
This years December drop at The Roudhouse was rigged slightly differently. The central Hex Truss was being used for a trapese act so I had to hang the net clear of this area. I was allowed up above the truss onto the open mesh where I dropped down 2 lines to pull the net up […]
2 x 400 Drops at The Dorchester. These were for a Charity Ball and each net had 12 Black Balloons inside, grab a Black Balloon and you win a bottle of Champagne. We stayed on site to pull the lines at 3pm for the grand finale. See other Dorchester installations.
To celebrate the 1st Birthday for the reopening of The Albert Hall in Manchester I rigged this 750 drop with 11”, 16” and 36” balloons. It was a last minute thing so I did this on my own as we also had arches in Chelmsford & Aberdeen. We were back at The Albert Hall in […]
Trinity Shopping Mall in Leeds put on a real show for it’s Christmas light switch on. For the grand finale we dropped 1500 balloons & 50 large balloons with flashing lights inside. The flashing lights have a small spring attached that activates the lights when the spring moves. When the nets are up high in […]
Here we are filling another net from the balcony at Kensington Town Hall. This was a 700 drop and the balloons were stuffed with tickets. 52 ‘Winners’ & 650 ‘SORRY’. See also recent balloon drops.
We helped Wicked celebrate 11 spellbinding years with another WICKED 2000 balloon drop. To mix things up I went for a brighter Lime green balloon as the branding on their website had changed. You can see previous installations here. As cameras are not allowed in theatres its always difficult to find a shot of the […]
We were back in Blackpool for 3rd consecutive year to install these 2 x 750 drops. This year they wanted us to pull the strings so lucky for me Colin Gledhill from Roys Balloons volunteered (after fish n chips with mushy peas). See previous installs here. AWARDS: Great evening at the @BIBAs2017! Thank you for […]
This 250 balloon drop at Village Underground took me just 2 hours to install thanks to help from the friendly genie lift driver. The drop became part of the Rex Orange County performance. You might find a photo of me in a Genie Lift here. @rexorangecounty with my Apricot Princess 💫 A post shared by […]
Whilst driving around Manchester looking for Audacious Church I was expecting a small Cathedral but this place was more like the O2. I think they’ll go for more balloons next year as a 500 drop was slightly lost in such a big area – but still looks cool. Thank you so much for setting up […]
Here’s our 3rd drop at The Roundhouse in Camden for a charity event to fund a primary school. We attached our net across the Hex-Truss as usual and this time the 2 pull lines were run to the control desk on the balcony. We were asked to pull the strings and drop the balloons so […]
Here’s my first drop at the Barbican Centre in London. This was 1000 balloons held back stage and you can see part of the drop in action in the tweets below:
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 […]