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Bonfire night Stunt Show and Firework Spectacular
Grattan Stadium - Odsal - Home of the Bradford Bulls
Sunday November 5th
The Extreme team were blown away by the response at Bradford on Sunday. With good pre-event ticket sales they new it would be a big show but on the night they were overwhelmed. Not only the team but the gate staff were overwhelmed as well. They started off with 13 turnstiles but soon realised that more were needed. Eventually 19 turnstiles were in operation and struggling to get people into the ground.
With the grandstand full and more people filling the standing area the commentator held the start for 20 minutes and then it was on with the show. Firewalls, car crashes, motorcycle jumping and two wheel diving got the show off to a good start but it turned out the best bits were in the second half. It had been advertised that Jamie Squib, the second best Freestyle Motto Cross rider in the UK was coming to the party. Unfortunately he couldn't make it (that's bad) so he asked his pal Gary Taylor to come along instead (that's excellent). Gary is the top rider in Europe and amazed the crowd with his unbelievable display of bike jumping finishing with an incredible back flip jump.
Car crushing is always a popular finale and this proved to be the case here. Ian Batey in Lil'Devil, with its 1500 bhp fully blown big block Chevy engine, showed how to make a complete mess of 5 cars and by the time he and Sling Shot had made two passes the line of cars was completely flattened.
Aurora Pyrotechnics closed the show with a splendid display of fireworks. They had designed the show using predominantly low level fireworks so that the people at the back of the grandstand could see everything and they received a great cheer at the end.
We have had some comments that some people in the stadium could not hear the public address system. We asked Alan Wallace for his comments and he responded as follows:
"We work to create atmosphere for the show by using music. The stadium public address system is fine for making voice announcements but it was not designed to present music. We decided to install our own sound system which uses cabinet speakers. This was done using two large speakers in front of the grand stand and two for the standing area next to the grand stand. It was anticipated that at the very most only half of this standing area would be occupied and tapes were run down the middle to keep the audience in the best position. When the show started the designated standing area was nearly full and the public overflowed into the second section. Unfortunately the speakers were not positioned to cover that section of the ground and I was unaware of the problem until after the show.
The team would like to apologise to those that were held up in the queue and also to those that could not hear very well and hope that it did not spoil what for most was a fabulous night out.
