The Pye Mobile was booked to record the entire Isle of Wight festival. We got there on Monday 25th of August and on arriving went to check out the site but didn’t start fully setting up until Wednesday 26th of August. Judas Jump were already performing and Neville and Alan were busy on stage setting up mics whilst Vic and I were in the truck checking that mic feeds were arriving to the desk correctly. There was a hard-wired onstage headset with mic attached, this was plugged into a large orange box that housed the Neumann U67 mic power packs. This was to allow us to have communications between the truck and the stage. As this was not always the most reliable method of communicating, it was one of my jobs to run between the two locations relaying messages. The arrival of the Boss: Judas Jump had nearly finished  ...