Carols at the Minster 2023
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 surround 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.