Christmas Endeavours

Every year, towards the end of the Autumn Term, URY has this awful habit of doing two "festive" "things".

URY Christmas Single

URY's Committee, Presenters and general happeners all get together on a Saturday (or other convenient time), to record a cute original music video for a popular song. Of course, this is then followed up with a studio recording of our wonderful voices singing - I can assure you it's an experience.

Usually, these songs are covers of traditional Christmas tunes. Although sometimes they will be parodies relevant to the University of York, or even completely original compositions. As of 2013, all of these are available in URY's Central Music Library.

Year	Song	Notes
2016	Baby It's Cold Outside	Cover of the Michael Buble and Idina Menzel cover of the song written by Frank Loesser. Entirely produced by URY. Possibly the one with the best singing. [1] Cast (in approximate order of appearance): Alex Light, Georgie Norgate, Marco Bolt, Harriet Peck, Jack Rewcroft, Neave Spikings, Ayesha Breithaupt, Timothy Pilbeam, Danni Boxall, Kirsty Taylor, Peter Rogers, Nelson Autefault, Victoria Seveno, Will Batchelor, Marco Ross, Jack Staples-Butler, Dominic Gould, Hector Macduff, Burbs, Kaja Harton, Naomi Gildert
2015	All I Want for Christmas is You	Cover of Mariah Carey's Christmas hit. Entirely produced by URY. [2] Cast (in approximate order of appearance): Stephen Clarke, Kat Spencer, Alex Light, Hector Macduff, Timothy Pilbeam, Katy Sandalls, Danni Boxall, Grace Levy, Simon Asaert, Naomi Gildert, Heather Baker, Kaja Harton, Alex Light, Andy Durant, Peter Rogers, Chris Wall, Qumarth Jash, Dominic Gould, James Rudge, Jonathan Rukundo, Caitlin Quinlan,
2014	Christmas is All Around	Recreating the opening song to the movie Love Actually Which itself is a cover of the song "Love is All Around" but this has more christmas.[3] Cast (in approximate order of appearance): Andy Durant, Alex Light, Harry Whittaker, Ali Woods, Jay Glover, Adam Brain, Joe Willis, Naomi Gildert, Mat Carrington-Mackenzie, Kat Spencer
2013	Fairytale of New York	A nice traditional outright cover. Entirely produced by URY. [4]
2013	This is Hes East	Part of the 2013 Christmas Panto. Yes, we know the panto version doesn't normally do "A Whole New World". [5]
2012	Merry Christmas Everyone	There are rumours an alternate version consisting entirely of the URY Computing Team exists, but was never allowed to see daylight. Entirely produced by URY. [6] Cast (In approximate order of appearance): Rob Stoneduck, Rachael Venables, Ben Bason, Will Chalk, Kirsty Rogers, Andy Durant, Tom Haines, Robyn Haycock, Wil Bennett, Stephen Clarke, Tom Edwards, Anthony Williams, Matt Windsor, Ellie Wright, John Wakefield, Rebecca Elson, Charles Lewis, Will Edwards, Steffan Woodruff, Lloyd Wallis, Karl Bos, George Lane, Hannah Smith
2011	Black Christmas	A parody of Rebecca Black's Friday. Due to lack of forward planning, was performed live on air by whoever was around at the time. Failed miserably.
2010	I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday	Outright cover. The music video was produced by YSTV. We don't talk about it. [7]
2010?	I Go To York Uni, It's True	Little is known of this parody of All I Want For Christmas Is You - not even the source of the vocals. However, we can learn a valuable lesson - the only thing that has changed ever since is that you can't get olives in YUSU Bars anymore.
2009	Do They Know It's Christmas?	The older tech we had back then is quite obvious. [8]
2008	Christmas On My Face (A Terrible Case of Xmas)	This is original. Original! And also The Best Thing! [9]

Christmas Panto

Of course, what radio station would be completely without a Christmas Panto? Featuring a "Celebrity" guest, each year we put our own spin on popular pantomimes.

Year	Production	Guest Star	Notes
2016	Beauty and the Beast [10]	Gareth Jones
2015	Oliver Twist	David Benson Phillips
2014	Dick Whittington and His Cat [11]	CBBC's Raven
2013	Aladdin [12]	Jon Lee (off of S Club 7)	Someone talk about this.
2012	Rumplestiltskin [13]	Alan Fletcher (Dr. Karl Raymond Marx Kennedy)