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Keith Lemon and Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen create new attractions for Blackpool Illuminations display 2024

Disco Donkey Cavalcade designed by Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen.

Blackpool has unveiled a dazzling array of new, fun-packed features that will grace the 2024 Illuminations display.

At a special preview event held at Blackpool Council’s Lightworks facility, where the world-famous display is manufactured, the Illuminations team revealed

- a spectacular new installation by the Illuminations’ creative curator, Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen. 

Entitled Disco Donkey Cavalcade, it is a celebration of one of Blackpool’s iconic beach attractions, with 12 donkeys dressed in 70s-inspired swimwear parading on a 16ft high platform, beneath a giant ice cream topped with a disco ball! 

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen said: “What says Blackpool better than donkeys! I have created a celebratory monument to the iconic quadrupeds who have been heroically carrying millions of happy holidaymaking bottoms for over a century and a half.

“Given a glam squad glow up my Disco Donkey Cavalcade is conceived as a light-hearted and warm- hearted homage to Blackpool’s super specialness!”

…also a new installation made by Leigh Francis (Keith Lemon.) 

Just around the corner from The Gatsby on Queens Promenade are the best illuminations in the resort where numerous Tableau are erected, many are original installations from decades gone by.

A brand new tableau, created by Leigh Francis (aka TV star Keith Lemon) featuring a wildly imaginative and colourful design incorporating a 12ft tall dinosaur, space ship, astronaut, an airborne BMX bike, and Leigh himself flying through the skies towards The Blackpool Tower! The tableau, which is the second to be created for the “Light Around The World” section at the northern end of the display, is based on Leigh’s childhood memories. 

Keith said… “I’m honoured and delighted to be asked to be part of the Blackpool Illuminations.

“As a kid I loved the Blackpool lights so the design I did features things that lit up my world as a child - space, dinosaurs and the idea of flight. Hence the figure on the flying BMX and myself flying barefoot, feeling the wind through my toes as I take flight to the Blackpool Tower!”

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