Urban75 Home About Offline BrixtonBuzz Contact

Brixton chitter-chatter and news Nov 2011

Was thinking about this on a soggy bus ride home last night. Just how wet and/or rainy does it actually have to be to properly stop a bonfire or a firework display? Will more or less anything burn like blazes if you douse it in the right accelerant, or it's got the right amount of gunpowder, or is there a level of rain which makes the whole thing a washout? Or is it more to do with the combination of rain and wind-speed or some other factor? Am interested in the parameters of what makes things fizzle out. /arsonistmusings

(No I am NOT planning to ruin anyone else's fun. pure idle curiosity)
 
Oh dear, I'm making ironic faux pas already!

The rain at the fireworks just means that the crowd is less flammable I guess. I remember when you could get waterproof bangers from France so all is ok.
 
It was the best display I've seen in Brockwell Park for years. And the music with it was brilliant. It was really well organised! We've had a great night out.
 
gaijingirl said:
It was the best display I've seen in Brockwell Park for years. And the music with it was brilliant. It was really well organised! We've had a great night out.
Click to expand...

We couldn't really hear the music very well. But agree that fireworks were brilliant - probably because they are concentrating their efforts on one display rather than several. And we went to Khan's after which was the perfect end to the evening.
 
we must have been standing in a good place soundwise.. it was great where we were.. us and all the people around us and all the kids were dancing! Khan's would have been perfect - wish we'd gone there too, but we were already pushing it with the display nipper-wise!
 
gaijingirl said:
It was the best display I've seen in Brockwell Park for years. And the music with it was brilliant. It was really well organised! We've had a great night out.
Click to expand...
It was Guy Fawkes combined with the 200th Anniversary of Brockwell Hall so the music was a compilation of music over the last 200 years according to the Lambeth Council website.
 
brockwell-park-fireworks-2011-08.jpg


Yeah! http://www.urban75.org/blog/brockwell-park-fireworks-display-guy-fawkes-night-2011/
 
Mrs Magpie said:
It was Guy Fawkes combined with the 200th Anniversary of Brockwell Hall so the music was a compilation of music over the last 200 years according to the Lambeth Council website.
Click to expand...

yes.. I think I mentioned that elsewhere on urban - but not on this thread. They built a giant 1811-2011 fire display which they lit just before the fireworks started and then the music started off with things like the William Tell overture and ended up with stuff like The Who (60s) and more modern music - we were having good fun towards the end as they did every decade from the 60s till now, trying to guess what song was coming next. We had hoped for Prodigy's firestarter but it wasn't to be.

It did go downhill towards the end with Michael Jackson's earth song and that "firework" song.. is it by Katy Perry? But there will have been plenty of people there who will have loved both those, so can't really complain.
 
trabuquera said:
Was thinking about this on a soggy bus ride home last night. Just how wet and/or rainy does it actually have to be to properly stop a bonfire or a firework display? Will more or less anything burn like blazes if you douse it in the right accelerant, or it's got the right amount of gunpowder, or is there a level of rain which makes the whole thing a washout? Or is it more to do with the combination of rain and wind-speed or some other factor? Am interested in the parameters of what makes things fizzle out. /arsonistmusings

(No I am NOT planning to ruin anyone else's fun. pure idle curiosity)
Click to expand...

We once had a fireworks display round a swimming pool. Most of them apart from the rockets ended up in the pool, and carried on fizzing and whirring about under the water, so I imagine rain wouldn't make much difference.

It was rather brilliant, really, in an accidental kind of way.

I think damp touch-papers are a problem though.
 
I like the tip about locking your bike next to other people's less secured ones, so that they get their bikes nicked instead.
 
The slightly random mini-constellation of Brazilian-themed businesses (a restaurant + a butcher's + a hair salon) clustered in Brixton market (few doors down from Franco Manca / opposite the Mexican place) is now papered with A4 flyers saying LOCKS CHANGED - REPORT TO MANAGEMENT OFFICE. So, either the militant class rebranding of the market is marching on, or the Brazilians just weren't very good at paying their rent.

Not necessarily anyone's fault, and I have to admit I never found the time or money myself to go and eat Feijao de Luis in the upstairs room, even if there was a huuuuuuuge flatscreen TV and a rather nice plastic window-sticker of the Cristo de Rio Janeiro up there .... but it's a bit sad, and made me feel even sadder to see when it's directly opposite from a newly-opened, very hipstercentric new tapas bar for the Clapham set.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

editor
Cyclist killed in Brixton
2
Replies
32
Views
2K
T & P
T & P
blameless77
After work pint in Brixton?
Replies
12
Views
802
editor
editor
editor
Homophobia in Brixton
2
Replies
38
Views
5K
Tulster218
T
editor
It's a grim Christmas around Brixton: no lights, no tree and no funfair
Replies
1
Views
745
skyscraper101
skyscraper101
editor
Where to watch England vs Spain Euro 2024 final in Brixton
Replies
6
Views
507
madolesance
M
Back
Top Bottom