We - Julian Hanby and Andy Barrett - first worked together in 1997 when a youth group asked us to help them stage an alien invasion of Bilsthorpe, a mining village in the north of Nottinghamshire, and having created utter bewilderment and no little amazement in the place, realised that we should carry on trying to do the same elsewhere We work regularly with a group of artists, designers, technicians, pyrotechnicians and stage managers all of whom contribute greatly to the success of the projects