Carols at the Minster 2023

What is Carols?

A tradition for certain, University of York and York St John's' Christian Unions put on a Carol service at York Minster every year. However, cool events like this should get broadcasted. Therefore, this is where URY stepped in, to provide an OB of Carols, on the 30th November 2023.

This event was the largest of the first semester 23/24, with just shy of 30 people in attendance over a single day. This may have broken the URY attendance records for events, with the possible exception of Roses coverage, and has been motivated by a large amount of Freshers joining URY during the 23/24 academic year.

This page will document who was there, as well as any shenanigans that took place.

Did anything happen?

"Anxietree" was the nickname for one particular mic stand because at least one member of URY feared it would topple over. It didn't. Said mic stand had over £4000 worth of microphones on it, so it's easy to see why.

At one point during the Carols themselves, one particular person had a segment that was nicknamed by an attendee "Have I got pews for you?"

Multiple shows were cancelled to make room for the OB. Interestingly, this included Newshour (which was cancelled for technical reasons and the main person running it being absent as she was at said Carols) and QWERTY (due to 2/3 presenters being away at the Minster at the time). This is of note as they were before the broadcast.

The broadcast was available in stereo sound, which is unique(?) to large events such as this.

Hoodies and T-shirts commemorating the event were made available for purchase.

Who was there?

Production

Fion Cudmore - Prod Lead
Tolan Enderby - Secondary Prod Lead
Rosie Allen - Secondary Prod Lead
Colin Roitt - Producer

Technical Staff

Harry Smith - Tech Lead
Dizzy Cooper - Secondary Tech Lead
Michael Grace - Secondary Tech Lead
Isacc Lowe - Tech
Jamie Parkie-East - Tech & Vibes (i.e Welfare lead)
Ashley Bryan - Tech Runner
Alyx Bruno-Bamford - Tech Runner
Bee Stevens - Tech Runner
Kathy Morrall - Tech Runner
James Pursglove - Tech Runner
Ronnie Young - Tech Runner
Charlotte Smith - Runner
Alice Carney - Tech Runner
Yash Samir Patil - Tech Runner

Presenters

Harvey Mellor - Opening Presenter
Molly Smith - Opening Presenter
Charlie Bradbury - Continuity Presenter
Matthew Keel - Continuity Presenter

Marketing

Millie Gee - Marketing
Kory Anderson - Marketing

Reporters

Jess Rolfe - Reporter
Sarah Gent - Reporter
Harrison Scott - Reporter

Page Credits

Written by Charlotte, Alumni + Archives Officer 23/24 present as a Runner. Some events were not witnessed by her so come from other URY members.