April Showers
- Mickey Fingers
- 17 hours ago
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April Showers
April 1 , 2026
with DJ Tea, Mr. Announcer Man & Mickey Fingers
1–3pm CST on WDRT 91.9FM | Listen Live »
By DJ Tea (DJ Celeste) & Mickey Fingers
April Showers | Eclectic Wonderland
Part one of a two-part Velvet Umbrella Radio transmission.
April Showers plays like a reconstructed mixtape - built from covers, alternate versions, and post-punk echoes tied to a Good Friday weekend in 1988.
From Medusa’s dance floor to midnight record bins to late-night drives and morning-after soundtracks, this set traces the outline of the moments that almost became something more.
These are the tracks that set the scene - the ones that lived on the tape, in the car, and somewhere just beneath the surface.
The rest of the story drifts in later…
This Corrosion — Medusa’s Good Friday 1988.
Mickey's Corner
Mickey’s Corner: April Showers (The Tape)
Some nights don’t turn into stories right away.
They turn into tapes.
This week’s Eclectic Wonderland set *April Showers* is exactly that:
a reconstruction of a weekend that didn’t quite resolve.
Good Friday, 1988.
Medusa’s. Chicago.
A first real night out. No curfew. No plan beyond music, movement, and wherever the night decided to go.
What came after wasn’t a conversation.
It was a tape.
Songs pulled from record store bins, car stereos, dance floors, and the quiet realization that something had shifted - without ever fully announcing itself.
Part one is what you can play in daylight.
Part two?
That’s where the rest of it lives.
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Intro
1) Mickey Fingers – Opener: This Corrosion
2) The Smashing Pumpkins – Rhinoceros
Gish wasn’t out yet…
but that didn’t stop us.
One of those over-21 shows we absolutely had no business being at -
and somehow, Celeste made it through the door anyway.
Somewhere between the noise and the lights…
something else started taking shape.
3) The Way Moves – Crown of Thorns
4) Depeche Mode – Something to Do
5) Mickey Fingers – Intro: April Showers
6) Señor Coconut – Trans Europe Express (break)
Second Set
1) Mickey Fingers – That Moment
2) Lauryl Sulfate & Her Ladies of Leisure – This Corrosion
3) Mickey Fingers – The MixTape
4) Crippled Black Phoenix – She’s in Parties
5) SKOLD – Peek‑a‑Boo
6) Collide – Haunted When the Minutes Drag (Alleged Remix)
7) t.A.T.u. – How Soon Is Now?
8) Dub Pistols & Dubmatix – Blue Monday
9) John Foxx – He’s a Liquid (Instrumental Dub Version) [BREAK]
Third Set
1) Mickey Fingers – Same Frequency, Different Signal
2) Joker’s Daughter – Kyoto Song (feat. Danger Mouse)
3) Rainbow Arabia – Six Different Ways
4) Mickey Fingers – I.D.
5) Bauhaus – Telegram Sam
6) Bauhaus – Third Uncle
7) Bauhaus – Ziggy Stardust
8) Konqistador – Bela Lugosi’s Dead (feat. David J)
9) Tones On Tail – Instrumental (Instrumental) [BREAK]
Fourth Set
1) Marsheaux – My Secret Garden
2) Mickey Fingers – April Showers
3) Dum Dum Girls – There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
4) Red Fang – Listen to the Sirens
5) The Evolution Control Committee – Spandau Filet [BREAK]
Fifth Set
1) Mickey Fingers – MixTape Part 2
2) Moonshine Willy – Complicated Games
3) Mickey Fingers – No Big Moment
4) Kitty Hawk – If You Were Here
5) The Figgs – Suspended in Gaffa
6) Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – (Forever) Live and Die
7) Bryan Ferry – Slave to Love
8) Midge Ure – Edo [BREAK]
9) Mickey Fingers – Final Thought
10) Nouvelle Vague – The Killing Moon (feat. Mélanie Pain)
11) Mickey Fingers – Listen Friday For More Of The Story
“If you look closely… the playlist already knew what was happening.”
The Tape - As Mickey Remembers It...
From The Vault:
a night that didn’t quite finish…