A Christmas-mad barrister has spent £5,000 creating a spectacular festive light display outside his home to flash in time to music from his own radio station which drivers can tune into. <br /><br />Nick Wright, 47, spent several hours a day for four weeks setting up his amazing musical winter wonderland outside his detached property. <br /><br />But programming each of the 2,000 lights on the house, each individually controlled by a computer network, took the dedicated homeowner three months of hard work.<br /><br />The now align perfectly with a playlist of 14 Christmas classics, that have a rock style twist, and can be heard from the street in Stourport-upon-Severn, Worcs. <br /><br />Drivers passing by can even tune their car radios into a designated frequency - 88.9fm - and enjoy the dazzling Yuletide lights show in a more immersive way.<br /><br />Nick says he has spent around £5,000 importing various lights and gadgets from the United States and China over the past year to construct his Christmas rock show.<br /><br />He said: “I always do Christmas lights on the outside of my house but this year I decided to do something a bit different.<br /><br />“I've got a thing called a space flower light which is like a three kilowatt light that you can see from five miles away. <br /><br />“It's like one of those from the 20th Century Fox Film adverts. There’s a lighting company in the United States and, every year, I always look at their stuff but it's not cheap. <br /><br />“So that's why I thought this year, I'll give it a go and see what happens. <br /><br />“I had eight boxes sent over from the United States, which helpfully doesn't come with any instructions, but I used online forums to figure out how they work.<br /><br />"When I first got into it, I thought I'd bitten off more than I could chew, but it's effectively a computer network with various controllers that you daisy chain together. <br /><br />“They work the lights and you can then programme them to music. That's the easy part, connecting it all up. <br /><br />"Sequencing the song is the tricky part as each light is individually configured. <br /><br />"It took me around five hours to do 10 seconds of a song, but now that it's done it looks really cool."<br /><br />As well as lights around the windows and doors, Nick's home is decorated with light-up snowflakes and Christmas trees - all of which are colour-changing.<br /><br />Asked how his neighbours have responded to the display, Nick said: “It's not particularly loud so I don't think they mind. I've only got them on between 5pm and 9pm.<br /><br />“I've definitely noticed more people this year stopping and staring in the street. <br /><br />“My one next-door neighbour, he's out every night and he's always filming it.”<br /><br />Despite having no engineering training, Nick’s dad Paul was a big help in assembling the display. <br /><br />Nick added: “My Dad is very good at knowing what to do.<br /><br />“The arches you can see are slightly different because they've actually got LED strips in as opposed to pixels.<br /><br />“The arches are two metres long and they come straight so I had to find some way to bend them in half to make it an arch. <br /><br />“Dad came up with the idea of filling them with hot water and we literally bent them over when the plastic softened.<br /><br />“He is very good at stuff like that, my dad.”<br /><br />It doesn’t even cost all that much to put on, according to Nick, despite all the hardware involved. <br /><br />He said: “Because it's all LED and all pixels, it's costs less than a hairdryer to run really. Even though it's 2000 pixels.<br /><br />“It's something ridiculous like a quarter of a watt per bulb or something. It's really, really low. <br /><br />“They are all data jammed in and all run off various extensions, but when it was all on, I went down into the garage to check out the meter and it really wasn't going that fast at all.<br /><br />“Next year I'll probably do something for a Severn Valley Railway trust, who I volunteer for, and the train line is just down the road from me. <br /><br />“This year I just wanted to get it right just to see if I could do it. Next year, I will put a collection box out the front and do it for a charity.”
