Grand National Championships

22/06/2023

2015

Shadynasty, performing in the Mike Eisenstadt Live Music Studio at WMNF Tampa 88.5 FM for Grand National Championships.gncsessions.com

01/06/2023

2014

Luxury Mane, performing in the Mike Eisenstadt Live Music Studio at WMNF Tampa 88.5 FM for Grand National Championships.gncsessions.comVideo shot by Carrie W...

27/03/2023

2013

The Mother Machine, performing in the Mike Eisenstadt Live Music Studio at WMNF for Grand National Championships.Camerawork courtesy of Carrie Waite

23/03/2023

2012

RedFeather, performing in the Mike Eisenstadt Live Music Studio at WMNF for Grand National Championships.wmnf.orggncsessions.commountainhollerredfeather.band...

16/03/2023

2012

Permanent Makeup, performing in the Mike Eisenstadt Live Music Studio at WMNF for Grand National Championships.Camerawork courtesy of Matt Kannenberg."Sugges...

13/03/2023

2012

The Pauses, performing in the Mike Eisenstadt Live Music Studio at WMNF Tampa 88.5 FM for Grand National Championships."The Beginnings of Things""Formerly""H...

07/03/2023

2012

Just Satellites, performing "Blonde Bone" in the Mike Eisenstadt Live Music Studio at WMNF Tampa 88.5 FM. Recorded by Alastair St.Hill for Grand National Cha...

24/12/2022

In the spirit of our official GNC motto, "Sorry It Took Us Five Years Or More To Do This", we present a live performance on WMNF Community Radio by Gullwing from March of 2017.

Gullwing, performing in the Mike Eisenstadt Live Music Studio at WMNF Tampa 88.5 FM for Grand National Championships on 3.29.2017.

12/07/2022

The Drain Outs, performing live on July 9, 2022.

12/07/2022

The Drain Outs - Live on Grand National Championships goes live at midnight!

The Drain Outs, performing live on July 9, 2022.

13/06/2022

It was two years ago this week that Grand National Championships stopped airing on WMNF. Some people have expressed curiosity about how that came about. It’s very uninteresting. Here we go.

It was June of 2020, three months into the pandemic, and management had asked programmers back to the studio, after most had been submitting their shows remotely since March.

Being in the studio meant having no guests, no bands allowed, taking my temperature before entering the studio, wearing a mask when not on mic, keeping a disposable hairnet thinger on the microphone, and wearing rubber gloves throughout my show. Then when the show ended, I had to wipe down “all surfaces” in the studio with disinfectant wipes.

In addition, the music library was off limits, the live music studio was off limits, and the production studios were unavailable to me. All in all, it was a most unpleasant place to be and I wasn’t able to do my show as I normally did at the station.

I returned to the studio for maybe 2 or 3 weeks when management started pushing for a return and I wasn’t feeling particularly good about it. The day after my show on 6/17, the station manager, Rick, sent me an email that I hadn’t cleaned up the studio properly; I had forgotten to take the hairnet off of the microphone.

I let him know that all these procedures and safety equipment that we had to use (especially the rubber gloves) made a slob like me uncomfortable and I didn’t think I was ready to come back, but if that was too much of a hardship for the station, I understood if my show had to be replaced.

The well-compensated station manager Rick told me, a 15+ years unpaid volunteer, that I was being self-serving and making it all about me, and Randy, the program director who had been CC’d on the conversation chimed in to say they were accepting the “resignation” that I had offered.

Randy then sent an email to the programmers group saying that I had resigned. It took effect immediately, and I was never offered a chance to air a final show after my time with the station.

I got a call from the operations manager of the station soon after, telling me that they had to collect my keys to the closed and off-limits Live Music Studio, presumably because they assumed that I was going to steal something.

And of course for some time after, I continued to hear many programmers doing their shows remotely.

That’s about it. It was mostly about rubber gloves.

I was left with some very bitter feelings towards wmnf. It is a nice place and a nice idea. There are some very lovely people there. There are other people there too.

09/04/2022

Here's the first new GNC Session in over two years. Welcome Daisy Vision!

Daisy Vision, performing for Grand National Championships on 2.26.2022.

07/01/2022

Our guest is Bobbi Douthitt.This week, we talk about: so many important, hilarious things and quizzes and such!Call us - 727.379.4335Email us - us@thegncshow...

04/09/2021

25/07/2021

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28/06/2021

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01/06/2021

Our guest is Billy Mays III (Infinite Third)This week, we talk about: surreal out-of-body experiences, aaron’s update, bc rich warlocks, audio interference, ...

31/03/2021

Courtesy of Aaron.

25/03/2021

This week, we talk about: tardiness, head tentacles, interstellar jazz, episode 844, steampunk nationalism, carbonic acid, the big mac challenge, dentistry, ...

19/03/2021

This week, we talk about: voicemails, fake laughs, instagram storefronts, being heavier, abusive mentors, seed collection, crinkly blankets, vaccinated by th...

06/03/2021

The youtube thumbnail may claim this show is from 2/27, but it's 3/6...big time!

Our guest is Morgan Burgess aka MongtronThis week, we talk about: audio shambles, tantrums, peaking, still having it, tjcgncpfhowphptbnaald, omens, hikes, te...

08/02/2021

This week, we talk about: hitting us in a sensual way, viewer calls, tie guys and their crazy knots, puppy bonds, pausing in a funny way, the least hot food,...

30/01/2021

This week, we talk about: good comedic premises, they who shall not be named, rim job steve, fantasy mebble, tangerine dream, rug flipping/posing, paintball ...