As the final concert dates for legendary quartet Phish approaches, fans can expect sensory overload by employing just about every new technology to cover the shows.

Promoter of the August 12-15 Coventry festival, Massachusetts-based Great Northeast Productions Inc., is leasing local radio station, WMOO, which will broadcast all six of Phish's sets as well as interviews, news and other special content. The station has been renamed 'The Bunny' and officially goes on-air at 8 a.m. August 12.

The Phab Phour began the tradition of renting their own radio station during the inaugural Phish multiday bash in upstate New York, which was attended by more than 100,000 fans. The band has always included animal themes in their repertoire including jams entitled 'Run Like an Antelope' or 'The Lizards', and pet-friendly pieces about a pig ('Guyute') or most frequently, dogs ('Runaway Jim,' 'Dog Log'). The 'Bunny' moniker first surfaced at last summer's 'It' festival.

Dave Werlin, president of Great Northeast, says the radio station will operate live from Newport State Airport (the concert venue) 24 hours a day with daily announcements about festival happenings, daily traffic updates and excerpts of From the Archives, a program by band archivist Kevin Shapiro. Of course, there will be live simulcasts of the actual August 14 and 15 performances.

The Bunny can also be heard worldwide on XM Satellite Radio on two separate channels.

As an added courtesy to ticketless Phishheads, the band will allow sounds and images from their final shows to be transmitted to the silver screen. Regal CineMedia entertainment services will also simulcast the gigs in two seven-hour blocks – via satellite and in high definition surround sound and video – to selected Regal Entertainment Group Theaters nationwide. However, more than 50,000 movie tickets went on sale last month and many of the screenings have already sold out.

All 70,000 tickets for both shows in the band’s home state of Vermont sold out weeks ago (with no more forthcoming), yet Werlin and state police are expecting upwards of 80,000 people to show up for the farewell festival.

According to state police, if every person in a vehicle does not have a ticket to the festival, the vehicle will be turned back. People without tickets are being asked by Werlin and state police not to attempt to come to the events. Members of the group have seconded the request.

'The most important thing to us about Coventry is that this thing comes off well and everybody respects that area,' Band member Jon Fishman told the Burlington Free Press. 'Of all the gigs that we would ever do in our whole lives, and of all the places to end on a positive note, this is the one that's most meaningful to us.'

The band recently agreed to donate $100,000 of the proceeds from the final concert to various Vermont nonprofit groups. In May, the Elektra/Atlantic recording group announced they would disband after these final two Coventry performances, culminating the group's 21 years together.