5/28/05, 64°F.
Another milestone night. Our biggest listenership of 2005 with the world premiere of Norway's Wobbler. Wobbler's forthcoming album has been the buzz since they were announced to play at Nearfest 05. Ken Golden was our guest for The Laser's Edge VOLUME II: The Golden Years 1995-2005. We featured each of Ken's releases from the last decade under the LE banner. Amidst our pre-recorded interview, we received word that a tornado was heading for Pemberton within 20 minutes. As I ran outside to investigate and close up the Jeep, there was not a bird or animal to be seen. I knew something was up. As I turned around, the black clouds arrived. Within minutes, a wind funnel had touched down in Burrs Mill, just 4 miles away. Yeesh! As the broadcast began, we peaked with 184 listeners at 10:30 at the premiere of the new Wobbler. Our servers at z889 were hit so many times simultaneously, that we were knocked offline 3x. Bittersweet I guess. I was spent by the end, but what a great show. We welcomed listeners in Cardiff, Nottingham, and Portsmouth England tonight, also in Oslo, Norway, and state side here in Jamestown, VA. This program ran 4 hours and 20 minutes.

5/21/05, 58°F.
Tonight was a replay of our Globalprogressive Rock Network's Top 100 of 2004: The Final 30. Annually, our top 100's are our most requested replay of programming featuring strictly new music. This program is a best bet for fence riders wondering if they should pick up a new disc or not. Lot of new stuff...one of my favorites of the year. Tonight's program ran 4 hours and 4 minutes.

5/14/05, 65°F.
Technology turned on us tonight for our 900th program. This marked the first time in many years we didn't do something 'commemorative' for a milestone program. And the prog gods may have been disappointed because our sever at the station with the live feed to the internet went down. Once again, Jaffa, our IT dude, with a big 'S' on his shirt, flew in and saved the night. After 3 tries..we were back online and through Aural Moon by 11:15pm. I affectionately refer to this program as Attack Of The Double CD's. Cuneiform was our highlight featuring all of the new May 10th releases. We featured Radio Massacre International, Present, John Surman, Graham Collier, and Miriodor. Along with the new Kayak, Gentle Giant remasters, Pierre Vervloesem, and the biggie we featured in the first and fourth hour, Van Der Graaf Generator's new Present double CD. We also featured our interview with guitarist Fareed Haque and unfortunately was only heard by our tri-state audience in the first half. By the second half we were back online and featured cuts from the new album cause Cosmic Hug. Tonight's program ran 4 hours and 2 minutes.

5/7/05, 53°F.
Tonight was a tribute the Female side of the genre. We featured a lot different acts new and old with surprisingly, more female callers than usual. They loved Emily Bezar's new one, Lana Lane and Toyah Wilcox. How sexy is she? We had a special guest tonight in Derek Shulman of Gentle Giant. He joined us to talk about the forthcoming Gentle Giant remasters. The interview was taken many different ways by our listeners. Some felt Derek was a bit distant on his feelings of Gentle Giant, while others felt that Derek has accomplished a lot in not only Gentle Giant, but his career as a producer, and head of numerous record labels. I enjoyed Derek's straightforwardness. Derek was honest and to the point, while touching on his personal feelings on his past. This may have been one of our favorites of the year. Our program peaked at the Midnight hour with 136 online listeners as we featured White Willow and flautist Tirill. Sadly, Pierre Moerlen passed away Monday night, we closed out with a tribute to him, with many heartfelt emails from our listeners. Still can't believe it. Too young. We welcomed new listeners from Barak, Israel; and Birmingham, United Kingdom. Tonight's program ran 4 hours and 6 minutes.