Why do people like fireworks? Is it the smell of sulphur? Loud bangs and dopamine? Danger? My wife likes fireworks. She likes all twinkly things. I sort of get it, but not really. Only if I’m the one with the lighter.
East Lothian Council have put on a big show over the past few years. Probably in competition with Portobello fireworks just across the bay. We have bigger rockets than you. There is an amazing David McKee picture book about this called ‘Six Men’. It has strong relevance still.
The big shows are expensive, can go higher and give you a bigger sensation in your gut. They made an obvious mistake in the first year by hiring the Musselburgh Mobile Disco DJ to shout moronic nonsense over the whole thing. I guess the council think more is more. It has got better since… although the last one before Covid hit reached a crescendo after 10 minutes then we had to stand in the November chill waiting another 30 minutes until it ended. Tricky.
I came across a great newspaper article about prints in an old box of Japanese fireworks. They were trade illustrations showing how each firework looked in the air. The distance in the mind between the rather primitive image making and the actual display is amazing and explosive in itself. Top marks.
https://picturebooksinelt.blogspot.com/2012/11/six-men-story-about-war.html
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