Isle of Wight

It is.

So today, we are taking a massive, totally uncompromising deep dive into the Isle of Wight.

Our mission today is total, unflinching due diligence for you.

Because if you are sitting at your kitchen table right now, looking at a calendar, trying to plan a one-week trip, you need hard facts.

Why this trip right now? I want to fully set the geographic stage for you.

Let's do it.

Like I said, the Isle of Wight sits a mere five miles off the south coast of England.

You can physically see it from the mainland.

And I'm Backup Dan.

We are coming at you back in Bristol after an exciting weekend on the Isle of Wight.

Yes, we've been at Fan TC Con on the Isle of Wight.

It's a wonderful local convention.

Very lovely vibe.

Yeah.

I went to the Isle of Wight.

I don't know if it's the Isle of Wight Festival or the Reading Festival.

Well, if you're on the Isle of Wight, it would have been the Isle of Wight Festival, wouldn't it?

Probably, yes.

Probably,

my god that'd be so good

Sam Fender is did I see him Isle of Wight it was one of the festivals anyway over the summer and I saw a video of it I was like this is going to be good crack

I think I saw him years ago when he was just starting out and you'd just be like, oh, yeah, your man's really talented.

And now he's blown up and now it's like, so hard to get tickets.

Yeah, I know someone that met him years ago.

He was a lorry driver on the Isle of Wight and he said he was really sound.

I know

that maybe he's doing propaganda, but he said, like, oh, he bought him a pint and stuff like that, but he's probably buying him a pint with his own money.

Well, hello and welcome to another edition of Sensational 70s, the Sensational 70s even, with me Pyro right here on Rock Island Radio UK on-demand radio broadcasting to you wherever you are.

And it's a very, very wet night as I'm recording this in Sandown on the Isle of Wight.

And I have some music that would cheer you up if it's raining where you're listening to the show today.

And we do have some great tunes.

And when you realise this, you forget, I'm tired, and you realise you're drifting further from the shore, you're like, oh man, I've got to go really hard.

You have to work hard, you forget that you're tired, and you start rowing back, because what's going to happen is I'm going to end up at the Isle of Wight, or I'm going to end up all the way down at Worthing or whatever, or the other way.

What's the other way? Selsey? That's nice, thanks.

Drifting rarely happens all at once.

He was talking about getting a new manager and he was running on empty.

On the 30th of August, 1970, It was the Isle of Wight's festival off the south coast of England.

It's an enormous event with a crowd estimated in the hundreds of thousands.

Hendrix goes on in the middle of the night, in the early hours of the morning, to a vast, restless audience.