We delayed this week's video 'til Monday, so it'd appear at the same time as my own video! -- Tom

I want to see the edit where Tom smashing the button gives mystery biscuits.

Friends who become filming equipment are the best kind of friends

Thank you, Jonty. We appreciate your willingness to be an impromptu lighting rig.

What do you mean it was a fake button? It sends Mystery Biscuits!

Wait a second, was this video "accidentally" put up before the video it's about because the video it's about is about someone accidentally hitting a button and setting off the display too early?

Someone used to sing opera in our street, in the section where there was (at the time) a potato field on one side, as he walked home with his grocery bags. He said he liked the way his voice resonated in the field.

last time i was this early your idea of goofing around involved a 99p drumkit

Matt, the term you're looking for with Jonty is Voice (or, in this case, Touch) Activated Mobile Light Stand. Otherwise known as photographer's or videographer's assistant :P

When I was a kid, our small town did a fireworks show near the end of the summer. The guys setting them off were also the fire department. Several years there was a magnificent finale as an emergency call came in and they immediately set off everything before heading out with sirens blaring. It was great

You don't do fireworks for the 4th of July in Britain? Something like "Good Riddance" Day?

The real question is, Did Toms' ears get sunburned?

I want to know what you wrote in the email to the fireworks company

I’ve just realised I’m qualified to try this at home......

How much did it cost?

Did we just hear Matt sing... opera?

Really should have had a camera specifically focused on Matt. His reaction totally made the original video.

Loved the video, I just have one thing I want to put out there. I thought it with the steel ball video and the fireworks reminded me too. The edits your editor does with multiple angles of the same thing and piecing them all together looks awesome, but I think a single static shot of the entire event from start to finish really helps to make things seem live rather than on camera. After that one shot, it could work well to then just replay the event with the fancy shmancy edits. This is for Tom's channel really but I thought it would be a good place to say this here. Love your stuff!

Is this what caused Wales's earthquake last week?

*NO! I DON'T LIKE FIREWORKS, I DON'T LIKE FUN, AND I DON'T LIKE THE WIRRAL!*

Your teacher line sounds like the teacher from a few Twisted Sister videos...

Thanks for the end screen link to Matt's extra footage video. Great stuff

12:08 wys? He cute as hell

I have a similar teacher story. One of the history teachers at my school really really screams at you when you do something terrible. The whole school turns silent and you can hear it from the other side of the building. All I remember was him yelling “TWO WEEKS.” To this poor sixth former.

does everyone do the 'allo vera joke when it is mentioned? (i know i do)

I am a little annoyed you didn't show each shot as it's full take, but did that quick cut editing like a TV show. Also a missed opportunity to for some sick slow mo footage, or possible Slo Mo guys collab. And yes I know, I am critiquing free content of what is a celebration video. Either way congratz on a million subs Tom.

*seismograph goes off* "Someone's making videos again."

Just spotted your 1 million subs today, Tom. That is amazing!!! Congrats!!!

NOO! AYE DONT LIKE FAREWORKS, AYE DOONT LIKE FUN, AND AYE DOONT LIKE YOUUU! 🤣 Made me laugh so much! (P.S the spelling mistakes were intentional 🤣!) 11:26

I'm surprised Colin wasn't involved with this.

Fun fact: The muzzleblast that passes the shell blows out the plastic sheet before the shell even starts moving.

I saw a documentary on filming footage for nuclear bomb tests in the 40's and 50's. They had to adjust the film and the exposure millisecond by millisecond as the film ran through the camera, but they had to do it ahead of time (it happened too quickly to do it by eye). It was really a major deal back then.

What got me, and you didn't even mention, is you pressed the button on zero!! I guess it's just a matter of timing. But when it hit zero, AND you punched it, I flinched. No sound no explosion, but I was so primed for it I jumped as if it happened. 😁😁Good job.

That deputy head is my spirit animal

Come for the explosions, stay for the bad jokes

Brings back the imagination of a firework display I wanted to see that's maybe similar to what you did. Essentially you have about 100 exact duplicate rockets spread 15m apart on let's say the park behind you and have them set off simultaneously whilst standing in the middle park. Would it evenly blanket the sky on perfect day? Would using flares instead make it look like the sun is up?

I think it came a cross to the KZfaq audience as well as it could in a recording vs being there in person

Huh. That may explain the big night-time firework-y bangs we hear in Cambridge occasionally. They often seem too short for displays and there are no festivals on that we know about. Also: He doesn't sing, he doesn't run unless he really, really needs to and he has somewhat uncontrollable hair. Could Matt Grey in fact be the lovechild of James May and a Time Machine?

Was gonna sleep but the notification popped up... I guess sleep can wait

matt recently did pyrotechnics on his own channel(i really liked it!) p.s. titanium fireworks, same here as there

im watching this before seeing the fireworks and the anticipation is tantalising . I'm literally precuming right now

That last second pun though. :D

Guys....that video was AWESOME!!!!!

I like how Jonty is having a myoclonic seizure at the sheer power of the display. I probably would be too.

You should have done a guest thing for Destin's Sound Traveler. Using the binaural audio thing to get the loud sound across

excellent video.

Allo vera. Thats a good one. 😁😂🤣

Reminds me of school, where the RE teacher uttered a dirty sentence one day. Could be the acetylene bomb let off right outside his classroom, shattering almost all the windows, but he did roar out " you dirty little scoundrels" amongst the sound of falling glass. His name, Mr I Glass.

Was the field near Kimbolton by any chance?

Only an Englishman would worry about getting sunburned in 10 degree weather :D

my brother did the lights on the london eye for new year's last year and the year before. He sort of did them this one just gone too, but his program was the backup, so its good we didnt see his work

Do a follow up about their indoor fireworks!

You forgot to put the link in the description

The Fireworks Video had not yet shown up in my subscriptions. I was confused. Found it now, I'll be back in four minutes

where in Cambridgeshire did you do it?

Re: the fireworks in the daytime thing - 4th July in Seattle, sunset is about 9pm, not dark until 10pm. Many many crotchety kids at fireworks displays. As for Alaska...

Bang, bang, done. -- Matt Park bench in the snow (again)?

I had a teacher at school who had a similar reputation. I can't remember anything specific but he was loud and 'ee were fru' Barnsleh.

You mean to tell me you guys don't have massive fireworks displays in the UK on the fourth of July to celebrate America's winning their independence from... Oooohhhh. Never mind. ;-)

Why did you upload this before the firework video?

how much did it cost? are saying its free or cheap

I'd have come to see it if it was nearby and I knew It was on.

Did you get sunburned?

Hey Matt and Tom! When you're talking about specifically stuff that doesn't "come across" or translate because they have such a "feeling" in person and not so much in camera, can you guys maybe do a binaural/3D sound recording for those instances? Or is that too much of a hassle or expensive?

Best "display" if you can call it that, that i've seen was after England won the RWC in 2003. "but wasn't that game in australia, and wasn't that very early in the morning? yep... it was". Basically a bunch of drunk guys trying to set up fireworks in broad daylight. two bangers they put in the hollow handle of a wheelbarrow.. It went out at a terrifying angle out the tube into some trees. A large firework they stuck the stick too deep in the dirt and it didn't have enough power to release itself, so it just exploded while still grounded.. It's quite a wonder no one was seriously hurt.

Why didn't you use the slow-mo camera on either yourselves or the fireworks?

Did you get sunburt?

Where is the big timelapse?

Johnty episode?

someday i hope to have a job that allows me to do something as cool as setting off seismographs with explosions :)

Why did you upload this video BEFORE the fireworks video?

We heard Matt sing!

next video about the negative environmental effects of fireworks? :D

So, just to be clear, Titanium Fireworks set up that whole thing for you, free of charge? I'd imagine that just the fireworks involved would be pretty expensive, not to mention the labor?

how much did it cost?

I'm on another Matt and Tom bender then.

Oh, good, I wasn't the only one singing "The Hallelujah Trail Theme."

I would like to hear more about that human error theory and fool proofing.

You guys have a smudge on the camera on Tom's jacket. Great work as always though.

Sun? How long ago did you film this?

Wooot

A proper WAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUHHH

I can confirm, living next to a opera singer can be quite exhausting.

I was gonna comment about the back-light but yeah

Park Bench: Sound Effects Special.

The key is to use spatial audio recording!

This all makes me think of the fireworks involved in the recent Beirut explosion

I'm sure most people want to know the price tag on ten minutes of fireworks in ten seconds. Also, what incredible words did you use to convince them to go through with it?

allo vera =) best joke in a long time.

that smudge or glare on the camera is interesting

Why am I entirely unsurprised that Tom would make that aloe vera joke?

I've had teachers who've said all these things in turn to me. Ok. Maybe not about fireworks. But "fun" and "you," yeah, they've said all that.

I feel like this was released too early? Is the fireworks video even up yet?

How was colinfurze not involved in the video?

When are they going to get to the fiiiiireworks factory?! --Milhouse

my dad used to be a pyrotechnician hes got a story or two about setting off a lot of fireworks by accident and barges being unfit to support fireworks

It would have been interesting to see the same display, but played as it should have been over 10 minutes, to see what it should have looked like. ... If you don't mind doing it all again that is?! ;)

MATT! Are you going to watch the Atlas V launch tomorrow??

This video should be a reminder that you all need to be subbed to all three channels. Blink, and you might miss something.

So glad this wasn't another solar light video.