After The Static| Velvet Umbrella Radio: After Hours | Part 2 of 5
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After The Static| Velvet Umbrella Radio: After Hours | Part 2 of 5
August 8, 2026
with Mickey Fingers & Celeste Violet
1–3 am CST on WDRT 91.9FM | Listen Live »
By Celeste Violet & Mickey Fingers
✨ After Hours: Free For All | Mickey Fingers & DJ Tea✨
After The Static| Velvet Umbrella Radio: After Hours | Part 2 of 5
After the Static | Velvet Umbrella Radio: After Hours | Part 2 of 5
There is a moment after the noise stops when the room feels different.
Not empty.
Just clearer.
After the Static is two hours of shoegaze, dream pop, darkwave, ambient drift, cathedral echoes, and late-night songs that seem to glow a little longer in the dark.
We move through Brian Eno, All India Radio, Slowdive, Cocteau Twins, The Church, Lush, Beach House, The Chameleons, The Cure, Ride, Mojave 3, Kilbey Kennedy, and more.
This is not the place for shouting.
This is the place after.
The signal is still there.
The relay is steady.
And the music remains.
Welcome to After the Static.
THIS WEEK'S TRANSMISSIONS
This Week's Doors...
Mickey’s Notes
Five Doors, One Strange Little Universe
And After The Static! is only one door.
This week, the Velvet Umbrella opened into five different directions, each with its own mood, frequency, and particular method of dealing with reality.
There is the bright, beautifully peculiar world of Eclectic Wonderland.
The darker late-night drift of After the Static.
And then, beneath the Velvet Umbrella, things split again.
One path gets louder, angrier, funnier, and completely unfiltered.
The other gets quieter.
Eight hours quieter.
Five shows.
Two stations of mind.
Several open doors.
One strange little universe.
Pick the frequency you need. Through the Other Doors…
Oh Shitaki! brought the bright, weird, electronic side of Eclectic Wonderland back into focus: dancing mushrooms, cheerful oddities, questionable decisions, and music that wandered in without an appointment.
Then After the Static moved into darker air with shoegaze, dream pop, darkwave, ambient drift, and cathedral echoes for everyone still awake.
And over at Velvet Umbrella Radio | Petals & Hooks, things got considerably less polite.
Fuck This Playlist became more
than four hours of screaming with us
into the void: loud, explicit, furious,
funny, cathartic, and completely unfiltered.
For anyone who needed the opposite
kind of release, we also opened another door.
No Exit: Corridors One & Two offers two separate four-hour journeys into ambient spaces, distant signals, liminal rooms, and slower frequencies.
Eight hours total.
One door for letting it out.
Another for letting go.
Some weeks the universe hands you mushrooms.
Some weeks it hands you static.
Some weeks it hands you a playlist to scream into.
And sometimes…
it just leaves the corridor lights on.
Click Here for Video Playlist for Keep Scrolling
Mickey's Corner
Mickey’s Corner 🎙️✨
Some shows are built to wake you up.
This one is for the moment when you finally stop fighting the silence.
The signal is still there. You just have to listen differently.
— Mickey
After Hours expands into a two-hour overnight journey.
Fridays 1:00 AM to 3:00 AM Central WDRT 91.9 FM
Velvet Umbrella Radio Page....
🎬 This Week’s Promo Video
The Listening Room: Playlist + Mickey’s Moments
After The Static| Velvet Umbrella Radio: After Hours | Part 2 of 5
Brian Eno | An Ending (Ascent)
All India Radio | Lucky
Slowdive | Sugar for the Pill
Cocteau Twins | Heaven or Las Vegas
The Church | Electric Lash
Lush | Sweetness and Light
Beach House | Myth
Cocteau Twins | Violaine
The Chameleons UK | Swamp Thing
The Chameleons | Seriocity
Love and Rockets | The Telephone Is Empty
The Cure | A Night Like This
Echo & the Bunnymen | Nocturnal Me
The House of Love | Christine
Dif Juz | No Motion
Ride | Vapour Trail
Airiel | In Your Room
John Foxx & Robin Guthrie | My Life As an Echo
Mojave 3 | Love Songs on the Radio
Slowdive | alife
Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd | Sea, Swallow Me
Beach House | Once Twice Melody
David J & Tim Newman | All Colours of Earth
Kilbey Kennedy | Stretch Into the Stars
Kilbey Kennedy | Eternity Incorporated
All India Radio | Echo Other
Velvet Umbrella Radio
The Door That’s Open Right Now.....
📻 Eclectic Wonderland
Wednesdays
1 PM - 3 PM Central
Live on WDRT 91.9 FM Viroqua
Eclectic Wonderland is our flagship show and home base for musical adventures, unexpected discoveries, and strange transmissions.
🎭 First Week: Alternate Wednesday
(Covers, remixes, reinterpretations, and musical curveballs)
🎵 Third Week: Independent Artist Showcase
(Please send us your music)
🛸 Fourth Week: Audities
(Our weirdest shows, experimental broadcasts, novelty records, and unexplained events)
🌙 After Hours
Fridays (Overnight)
1 AM - 3 AM Central
WDRT 91.9 FM Viroqua
With Celeste Violet & Mickey Fingers
After Hours explores the darker corners of the record collection.
Dream Pop.
Darkwave.
Trip-Hop.
Late-night discoveries.
Moonlit roads.
Signals from beneath.
and now, twice as long.
After Hours with Celeste Violet and Mickey Fingers
After Hours is more of an Evening Vibe:
And then .....
🧜♀️ Petals & Hooks
Mixcloud Exclusive
Premieres Fridays at Midnight
With Celeste Violet & Mickey Fingers
Petals & Hooks is where the filters come off. Long-form themed journeys.
Dream narratives. Storytelling. Unexpected connections.
Beautiful mistakes. The things that don’t fit neatly inside traditional radio.
Most episodes run between three and four hours.
Some are explicit.
All are deeply strange.
Thanks, Goth Daddy, for everything you do...
and for assisting me in saving Petals & Hooks this week when all 3 hours vanished at the last moment.
You Rock. I do not know how you always keep your calm.
-Princess Danish Buns
Thank You For Visiting
Keep Exploring…
If you’re not quite ready to head home, there are still plenty of strange little corners waiting to be discovered.
🚪 Explore Our Sister Stations
Three different doors. Three different adventures.
• After Hours• Velvet Umbrella Radio• Petals & Hooks
🌂 Visit Velvet Umbrella Radio
📼 From the Vault
Archived transmissions, favorite episodes, and forgotten adventures from years past.
🌊 Continue the Story…
If you didn’t mean to leave just yet, Petals & Hooks is waiting just beyond the next door.
No rush.
Stay as long as you need.
Thank you for listening 💋
Stay Connected
Follow along, say hello, and join us as we continue building strange little worlds together.
Mickey Fingers
Celeste Violet
🦇 Stay with us… or come back when the lights go out.
Part of the Velvet Umbrella Radio: After Hours series. Originally developed alongside Eclectic Wonderland on WDRT 91.9FM Viroqua
Produced by DJ Celeste and Mickey Fingers for the Eclectic Wonderland universe.
The Folks We Blame For This…
Creative Direction & Visual Worldbuilding
Celeste Violet | DJ Tea | Mickey Fingers
Music Curation & Programming
Celeste Violet | DJ Tea | Mickey Fingers
Original Voice Overs & Incidental Music
Mickey Fingers
Writing, Storyworld & Show Notes
Celeste Violet | DJ Tea
Mickey Fingers
Video Production & Editing
Celeste Violet
Audio Production & Sound Engineering
Mickey Fingers
Celeste Violet
Featuring
Eclectic Wonderland
DJ Tea | Celeste Violet
Mr. Announcer Man
Mickey Fingers
Velvet Umbrella Radio
After Hours
Celeste Violet
Mickey Fingers
Petals & Hooks
Celeste Violet
Mickey Fingers
Special Thanks
To every independent artist who trusted us with their music.
To every listener who wandered in.
To every spoonie who reminds us that creating is an act of hope.
And to the wonderfully strange little community that continues to make this world feel like home.
💜
"Every place worth returning to was once built one small kindness at a time."-Mickey
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