Did the BBC forget to start their livestream of the fireworks on YouTube? 😞 The livestream still says “Upcoming”. It never went live.
We were actually midway through the decade at midday yesterday 🙂
Thought they were pretty average this year tbh. The projection inside the eye was quite distracting and took attention away from the main feature.
I thought the middle bit was CGI! Could you see all that, Bellingham, Paddington, etc, there too? Ace!
That’s a photo of your TV
I think they were quite underwhelming!
Great fireworks but really shonky music – just a mishmash of generic club hits with super short samples, which made it feel very mashed-together rather than coherently themed.
The more impressive effects in the centre of the London Eye were CGI.
I disagree sorry 🫣
I watched for the first time and I can agree
The commentary was so depressing. All about shite weather and D Day. Music was so cobbled together it was incoherent.
Fireworks themselves were good though.
Was the Paddington bear actually projected onto the London eye, or was that super imposed on the TV stream only?
Thought the things can only get better music was a bit risky ngl.
Happy New Year!
To make up for the Christmas tree
Did anyone else think Paddington bear voiceover sounded… off? It didn’t sound like Ben Whishaw to me
You guys killed it… not sure the colonies can compete
Great fireworks (especially the finale!) and I think they learnt their lesson w.r.t. organisation this year. The music was subpar though.
But I’d have paid good coin for some stalls selling decent snacks and a drink worth consuming!
I really don’t mean to sound so depressing here but it’s literally the same thing every year. Fireworks around the London eye. It just shows we haven’t built fuck all noteworthy for years.
I saw it from a rooftop in Peckham. Best I can remember in years
Love the music nod appearances to Charli XCX’s Apple and Sophie Ellis Bextor’s Murder On The Dancefloor as well!
Thought it was boring with terrible music mixingÂ
It was shite. With shite messages. Attended by paying fucking morons who wave their stupid phones at it recording something they won’t watch back when they could have just watched it as they had paid to do.
I hate it.
Fuck the fireworks.
I am ready to accept your downvotes.
Perfect example of why the BBC needs to go. Fuckers had the audio stream to themselves and forgot to go live.
If you’re ever thinking of going in person, don’t, I thought I would die in the crowd at waterloo, it was poorly managed. Back to watching it on bbc next year…
Worst NY experience I’ve ever had. We had tickets for Blackfriars Bridge booked months ago, but when we got there the entrance was closed from the south side, and we were told we had to walk around half an hour to get to the other entrance. Total chaos, contradictory information on what was open and where to go, and it was far worse for all the tourists. When we finally got there the queue was massive, took us 15 mins just to get to the end of it. No stewards anywhere, no info, but the queue was moving so we waited patiently. But by 11.30pm we were very worried as the queue was so long. One of us went up to the top to check what was happening and were told the gates were closed and no one else was being let in. Still no stewards anywhere, so we ended up telling others in the queue. No info on where to go and lots of pissed off people wasn’t great and honestly things could have gone very wrong. We ended up going to the closest place we could get to in the time – St Paul’s. Lots of people there and lovely atmosphere but when the fireworks started no one could see a thing. It was just shambolic start to finish. I’ve been before and it was super organised and fun, so no idea why it’s been so bad this time. Have they changed the organisers? Did they oversell and if so why didn’t they just tell people? Why didn’t they give proper information on where to go ahead of time?
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Did the BBC forget to start their livestream of the fireworks on YouTube? 😞 The livestream still says “Upcoming”. It never went live.
We were actually midway through the decade at midday yesterday 🙂
Thought they were pretty average this year tbh. The projection inside the eye was quite distracting and took attention away from the main feature.
I thought the middle bit was CGI! Could you see all that, Bellingham, Paddington, etc, there too? Ace!
That’s a photo of your TV
I think they were quite underwhelming!
Great fireworks but really shonky music – just a mishmash of generic club hits with super short samples, which made it feel very mashed-together rather than coherently themed.
The more impressive effects in the centre of the London Eye were CGI.
I disagree sorry 🫣
I watched for the first time and I can agree
The commentary was so depressing. All about shite weather and D Day. Music was so cobbled together it was incoherent.
Fireworks themselves were good though.
Was the Paddington bear actually projected onto the London eye, or was that super imposed on the TV stream only?
Thought the things can only get better music was a bit risky ngl.
Happy New Year!
To make up for the Christmas tree
Did anyone else think Paddington bear voiceover sounded… off? It didn’t sound like Ben Whishaw to me
You guys killed it… not sure the colonies can compete
Great fireworks (especially the finale!) and I think they learnt their lesson w.r.t. organisation this year. The music was subpar though.
But I’d have paid good coin for some stalls selling decent snacks and a drink worth consuming!
I really don’t mean to sound so depressing here but it’s literally the same thing every year. Fireworks around the London eye. It just shows we haven’t built fuck all noteworthy for years.
I saw it from a rooftop in Peckham. Best I can remember in years
fireworks good
music weak
cgi in the wheel tacky
https://preview.redd.it/oeooa3tjaaae1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=61373360f26efe3a274af66d48df20816eda8e46
Here you go
Love the music nod appearances to Charli XCX’s Apple and Sophie Ellis Bextor’s Murder On The Dancefloor as well!
Thought it was boring with terrible music mixingÂ
It was shite. With shite messages. Attended by paying fucking morons who wave their stupid phones at it recording something they won’t watch back when they could have just watched it as they had paid to do.
I hate it.
Fuck the fireworks.
I am ready to accept your downvotes.
Perfect example of why the BBC needs to go. Fuckers had the audio stream to themselves and forgot to go live.
If you’re ever thinking of going in person, don’t, I thought I would die in the crowd at waterloo, it was poorly managed. Back to watching it on bbc next year…
Worst NY experience I’ve ever had. We had tickets for Blackfriars Bridge booked months ago, but when we got there the entrance was closed from the south side, and we were told we had to walk around half an hour to get to the other entrance. Total chaos, contradictory information on what was open and where to go, and it was far worse for all the tourists. When we finally got there the queue was massive, took us 15 mins just to get to the end of it. No stewards anywhere, no info, but the queue was moving so we waited patiently. But by 11.30pm we were very worried as the queue was so long. One of us went up to the top to check what was happening and were told the gates were closed and no one else was being let in. Still no stewards anywhere, so we ended up telling others in the queue. No info on where to go and lots of pissed off people wasn’t great and honestly things could have gone very wrong. We ended up going to the closest place we could get to in the time – St Paul’s. Lots of people there and lovely atmosphere but when the fireworks started no one could see a thing. It was just shambolic start to finish. I’ve been before and it was super organised and fun, so no idea why it’s been so bad this time. Have they changed the organisers? Did they oversell and if so why didn’t they just tell people? Why didn’t they give proper information on where to go ahead of time?
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