Sydney Fireworks on T.V?
#20
Re: Sydney Fireworks on T.V?
I thought Sydney was great until I saw London's firework display - now that was truly SPECTACULAR!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy_9bx6U8_0
#21
Joined: Sep 2005
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Wow I just thought the complete opposite!!
I thought Sydney was great until I saw London's firework display - now that was truly SPECTACULAR!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy_9bx6U8_0
I thought Sydney was great until I saw London's firework display - now that was truly SPECTACULAR!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy_9bx6U8_0
To me, it isn't New Year until you have heard Big Ben and I listened to him chime in the New Year live on the radio stream onto my computer and then as soon as the clip was uploaded, I watched it on youtube.
#22
Re: Sydney Fireworks on T.V?
I thought the London fireworks totally out shone the Sydney ones, it was an incredible display. I have saved the 18 min footage on Youtube into my favourites.
To me, it isn't New Year until you have heard Big Ben and I listened to him chime in the New Year live on the radio stream onto my computer and then as soon as the clip was uploaded, I watched it on youtube.
To me, it isn't New Year until you have heard Big Ben and I listened to him chime in the New Year live on the radio stream onto my computer and then as soon as the clip was uploaded, I watched it on youtube.
To be honest I have never watched them before!!!! Somebody had posted it on my Facebook.
I just usually stick to Sydney on the telly, I have been to see them live two or three times in the past.
How long has London being doing them for? I loved the way they were all in synch with the music and Big Ben just set the scene along with the filming of the London skyline.
#23
Joined: Sep 2005
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To be honest I have never watched them before!!!! Somebody had posted it on my Facebook.
I just usually stick to Sydney on the telly, I have been to see them live two or three times in the past.
How long has London being doing them for? I loved the way they were all in synch with the music and Big Ben just set the scene along with the filming of the London skyline.
I just usually stick to Sydney on the telly, I have been to see them live two or three times in the past.
How long has London being doing them for? I loved the way they were all in synch with the music and Big Ben just set the scene along with the filming of the London skyline.
You could never hear Big Ben from Trafalgar anyway and the only way we knew it was New Year was when the lights would flash 'Happy New Year from the Metropolitan Police'.
But the coverage this year was superb and for all I love living here, I would have paid handsomely to have been at the London celebrations this NYE.
Every year my Dad calls me at midnight and has his phone on speaker phone and holds it up to the TV that shows Big Ben in his local Pub so I can hear him chime in the New Year. He does that as usually on NYD in Perth I am going off on a trip somewhere.
This time I was at home at that time and I woke Mr PP up by blaring Big Ben out on BBC London on the speakers whilst talking to Dad.
#24
Re: Sydney Fireworks on T.V?
Wow I just thought the complete opposite!!
I thought Sydney was great until I saw London's firework display - now that was truly SPECTACULAR!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy_9bx6U8_0
I thought Sydney was great until I saw London's firework display - now that was truly SPECTACULAR!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy_9bx6U8_0
#25
Re: Sydney Fireworks on T.V?
I have to say I didn't see the London ones this year, I was referring to previous years which were frankly pants! But by all accounts they outdid themselves this year which is great, it's about time London stepped up to the plate and put on a decent display. This year we watched the coverage of the Hogmanay festivities in Edinburgh...brilliant!
#26
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Well I think but not sure, that it started on the embankment in 2000 for the millenium but it wasnt nearly as organised and as elaborate as it is now. Prior to that we used to gather at Trafalgar Square by the fountain, I remember at midnight one year, a policeman had to lift me down from the edge of the fountain as the crowd surged
You could never hear Big Ben from Trafalgar anyway and the only way we knew it was New Year was when the lights would flash 'Happy New Year from the Metropolitan Police'.
But the coverage this year was superb and for all I love living here, I would have paid handsomely to have been at the London celebrations this NYE.
Every year my Dad calls me at midnight and has his phone on speaker phone and holds it up to the TV that shows Big Ben in his local Pub so I can hear him chime in the New Year. He does that as usually on NYD in Perth I am going off on a trip somewhere.
This time I was at home at that time and I woke Mr PP up by blaring Big Ben out on BBC London on the speakers whilst talking to Dad.
You could never hear Big Ben from Trafalgar anyway and the only way we knew it was New Year was when the lights would flash 'Happy New Year from the Metropolitan Police'.
But the coverage this year was superb and for all I love living here, I would have paid handsomely to have been at the London celebrations this NYE.
Every year my Dad calls me at midnight and has his phone on speaker phone and holds it up to the TV that shows Big Ben in his local Pub so I can hear him chime in the New Year. He does that as usually on NYD in Perth I am going off on a trip somewhere.
This time I was at home at that time and I woke Mr PP up by blaring Big Ben out on BBC London on the speakers whilst talking to Dad.
#27
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 23,400
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Yep and what he doesnt realise, that while he is crying down the phone to me as we hear Big Ben chime in the new year, is that I am biting my lip crying my eyes out as well , which he cant hear as he normally calls from his local pub - being 73, that is his main place to socialise on NYE.
He said he is coming out to see me in March for a month, I am excited but nervous - the feeling you get when visitors (although we have only had one) walk through the doors and how you have to keep staring at them or touching them because you cant quite believe they are sitting next to you, or how strong their accent is. Then it is like you have never been apart, and then you have to say goodbye and when you see them walk through the doors to leave, you cry because as the doors shut, you dont know when you will see them again or if you will see them again in the case of my Dad.
And for purely selfish reasons, that is the bit I am dreading.
He said he is coming out to see me in March for a month, I am excited but nervous - the feeling you get when visitors (although we have only had one) walk through the doors and how you have to keep staring at them or touching them because you cant quite believe they are sitting next to you, or how strong their accent is. Then it is like you have never been apart, and then you have to say goodbye and when you see them walk through the doors to leave, you cry because as the doors shut, you dont know when you will see them again or if you will see them again in the case of my Dad.
And for purely selfish reasons, that is the bit I am dreading.
#28
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Yep and what he doesnt realise, that while he is crying down the phone to me as we hear Big Ben chime in the new year, is that I am biting my lip crying my eyes out as well , which he cant hear as he normally calls from his local pub - being 73, that is his main place to socialise on NYE.
He said he is coming out to see me in March for a month, I am excited but nervous - the feeling you get when visitors (although we have only had one) walk through the doors and how you have to keep staring at them or touching them because you cant quite believe they are sitting next to you, or how strong their accent is. Then it is like you have never been apart, and then you have to say goodbye and when you see them walk through the doors to leave, you cry because as the doors shut, you dont know when you will see them again or if you will see them again in the case of my Dad.
And for purely selfish reasons, that is the bit I am dreading.
He said he is coming out to see me in March for a month, I am excited but nervous - the feeling you get when visitors (although we have only had one) walk through the doors and how you have to keep staring at them or touching them because you cant quite believe they are sitting next to you, or how strong their accent is. Then it is like you have never been apart, and then you have to say goodbye and when you see them walk through the doors to leave, you cry because as the doors shut, you dont know when you will see them again or if you will see them again in the case of my Dad.
And for purely selfish reasons, that is the bit I am dreading.
#29
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Joined: Feb 2004
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Re: Sydney Fireworks on T.V?
london kicked ass
#30
Re: Sydney Fireworks on T.V?
i'd have to say the london fireworks are great but it's lacking the party spirit in sydney. if you just wanna watch fireworks go london. but fireworks + party, sydney is a much more amazing experience.