From the Perhaps Don't try this at Home Department!

Strange choice of music. Definitely not to be tried at home.

How exactly did that spiralling happen? Natural convection currents? Reflections from the surrounding "things"? What were they anyway? If fans, I didn't see any flex. Reflectors? Barriers to keep out the public?

Quite mesmeric to watch, and I thought the music was strangely right for the rhythm of the flames. Fascinating.

Yes, the surrounding objects are fans, and they were placed so as to cause a 'whirlwind' draught. Clever.

I liked the musical accompaniment too, but then, I like that music.

The music reminds me of Sunday mornings many moons ago when my youngest son practiced this piece.

Fire is captivating, isn't it.

Wow. But I won't try it!

Made me think about that biblical 'pillar of fire'. Wasn't that Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata? I wonder what music would have been more appropriate?

Yes annodomini the first movement. I think endless practising that and other boring bits of Beethoven as a child has put me off forever.

I have that somewhere on a CD by a women's group with a flute addition - beautiful.

Beethovens pathetique or the apassionata ? Which?

Of course the moonlight!

Maybe the music should have been something by Earth, Wind and Fire – except I can't remember any and it was probably all rotten anyway. Wasn't there also a group called the Tornadoes in the 1960s? I think they were rotten too.

Perhaps 'Fire' by the Crazy World of Arthur Brown?

It's obvious. It should be 'The fire dance'

Ana Gosh, I remember Arthur Brown being lowered to the stage by crane before launching into "Fire, I'll teach you to burn…" That was along time ago. I think he eventually became a physics taecher.

teacher. Too many pre-dinner

I saw him at a Club in Manchester in the late 60s. His fiery headpiece almost set the place alight!

Arthur Brown doesn't seem to have become a physics teacher at all!

www.arthur-brown.com

Looks like he's still actively touring. Interestingly, he's well educated:

Brown attended the University of London and the University of Reading. He studied philosophy and law, but gravitated to music (Wikipedia)

This gets quite lively

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcmmLvAYqkI

at about 50 seconds in. For your further enjoyment, they then repeat it!

Can't think who I meant then about becoming a physics teacher. Must be creeping /galloping senility. [drooling emoticon]