This photo (courtesy of The Comet) shows the layout of the whole Stevenage Day site. RITP is in the top left hand corner

This photo (courtesy of The Comet) shows a more detailed view of the RITP site. You can see the Big Red Bus, which was actually the bar closest to the stages (which were the two large silvery objects above and to the right of it).

The Bus was the bar closest to the RITP stage. It was busy almost non-stop all the day and into the evening.

This photo shows the Stage setup this year. With the acoustic and Main Stages next to each other it was much easier to setup one stage whilst performances continued on the other stage. You can see the speaker stacks hung to the left and right of the two Stages. The red tent contained the Sound mixing desk for both stages.

Of course, Stevenage Day is all about fun... and having some Minions about helped as well.

It takes LOADS of organisation to get Stevenage Day and RITP going and here's Geoff Caine who runs Stevenage Day for the Borough council. You can see the RITP stage being constructed behind him.

The Music also takes organising and Kriss (from The Practice Roomz) takes care of that, selecting the bands from those that volunteer to appear and generally making the music side happen.

The idea behind Rock in the Park was always to enjoy the music and what better way to do that than picnic and listen to the bands and artists.

Sophie Kitchener kicked it all off for us with a set on the Acoustic Stage at 12 o'clock.

Cove opened the Main Stage for us at 12:30. Photo courtesy Ian Randall Photographic.

Dallenger sang on the Acoustic Stage at 1 pm. Photo courtesy Ian Randall Photographic.

Futureship played on the Main Stage at 1:30pm

At 2pm on the Acoustic Stage the country group "The Skeltons" took to the stage. Photo courtesy Ian Randall Photography.

The Main stage took over at 2:30pm with "Codename Colin"

Back to the Acoustic Stage at 3pm for Georgia Nevada.

The Cardinal Kings took over on the Main Stage at 3:30pm

Jasmin Donovan on the Acoustic Stage at 4pm.

Mark Sullivan, who performed a solo artist at the previous RITP, sang on the Main Stage with his band at 4:30pm.

At 5pm Spacegoat came onto the Acoustic stage to perform for us.

Indi and the Vegas were the next band on the Main Stage at 5:30pm.

Darline were the last act on the Acoustic Stage at 6pm.

And rounding off the evening at 6:30pm with a bang - Chron Gen.

As can be seen here, space was a bit tight when lots of people arrived but everyone enjoyed themselves.

Here's some of the crew from ESS Hire who helped set up the staging and ran the sound for us this time.