Otherwise known as the Black Box Boys
Father, son, a school disco that needed saving, and a stubborn idea that events should make people go “how did they do that?”
We still take fun seriously. The kit got bigger. The mission did not.
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One school disco. We never quite recovered.
It all started with a father and son duo — the Black Box Boys — on a mission to save a local school disco. A normal setup was never going to cut it. The wow factor became the job: make the impossible possible, then pack the van.
2017
The company had grown bigger than one name. BBB Group arrived so each arm could have a clear identity, whoever the customer was. Event Production Live took on the live sound, lighting, staging, special effects and event safety — your event, properly lit (literally).
Now
Fast forward and we are a full-blown events entertainment logistical powerhouse. Shows, activities, trails, bespoke builds, décor, entertainment — mix them, we will make it feel like one day. The workshop is in Leighton Buzzard, and the jobs run across Bedfordshire, Luton, Dunstable, Milton Keynes and London. Nationwide (and sometimes Worldwide!) We love what we do. Mostly we enjoy taking fun seriously. See you on site.
Still the same lot
The Black Box Boys never really went away. They are still in the DNA — the hosts, the chaos, the “can we actually do that?” energy. Around them grew SWIRL, Event Production Live, and the rest of the group.
Old archive shots from the early days are thin on the public web (we looked). If you have a dusty hard drive of school-disco photos, send them in. They belong here.