Woodstock

RAG have been running an outdoor music festival for many years as a fundraiser in Week 9 of the Summer Term. The venue is normally (but not always) Vanbrugh Bowl, the grassed area leading down to the lake in from of the Music department.

• 1996 The oldest footage held by YSTV is from 1996, when a single camera was set up at the back to record a static wide shot of bands playing on a lorry trailer.
• 2001 Two tape's worth of material was shot, lead by Kevin {{unsure|Bowman}.
• 2002 was the year Peter Bowles was RAG president as well as involved in YSTV, so the firstUnverified or incomplete information large scale coverage was organised. Two XF30 5200 lumen projectors were hired and used to project onto screens at either side of the stage, which was again made up of two articulated lorries parked side by side on the bowl. YSTV ran a multiple-camera rig in front of and on the stage, which was fed to the projectors with other VT content.
• 2003 had to be held on Vanbrugh Paradise (the concrete near Central Hall) because building work was under way on the new Music Research Centre. This lead to a rather strange small stage in half a marquee, and no projection outputUnverified or incomplete information, with YSTV just feeding TVs in Vanbrugh college.
• 2004 was back on Vanbrugh Bowl, and was produced by Richard Ash and Drew Perry. The woodstock co-ordinator had big ideas, and so a proper festival stage was hired in from Tega, together with two 5200 lumen projectors on either wing. YSTV got a return feed to the station working, and broadcast the full 12 hours live to the network (thus reaching Vanbrugh Collge TVs), as well as Big Telly in front of the off license queue. This is believed to be the first time Woodstock was broadcast live. Peter Bowles returned with the loan of several DV cameras, and after heroic work by Rob Humphry getting the cabling fixed DeathStar was installed high up on the roof of the stage. Despite rain and poor attendance early on, and a failed projector bulb which reduced the brightness of one screen, it was generally considered a success. All the band sets were subsequently loaded onto the station's brand new Video Server and website.
• 2005 was again on Vanbrugh Bowl, but failed to find a RAG woodstock co-ordinator and so was put together by the then president, Mary Gaunt. Unfortunately this lead to it being run at the last minute with inadequate preparation, and seemed a little of a damp sqwib compared to 2004. YSTV's producers were Richard Ash and Sarah Leese. Again the Tega festival stage was brought in, and Ents succeeded (via JSS) in getting a line array speaker system to run the event. This year a single larger screen was erected behind the bands on the back of the stage, again with a 5200 lumen projector. This was designed to be more visible due to being in darker surroundings, but was offset by the larger screen. Despite much effort the event did not go out to network due to a missing ground connection in LTC (picture was seen, but covered in squiggly lines). Unfortunately the SVHS deck decided to have an off day, so only the last two band sets could be recovered from the third tape for subsequent broadcast.