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Forkin' Around With Mickey Fingers | The Forbidden Valentine Mix

Sliced red velvet cake with fork, steaming mug with lipstick stain, radio with "ON AIR" sign, curtain backdrop. Text: Forkin' Around with Mickey Fingers.

This is a velvet-noir Valentine mixtape full of darkwave seduction, trip-hop ache, post-punk longing, and songs that kiss like a bruise.


Featuring IAMX, Portishead, Depeche Mode, Placebo, Hooverphonic, Massive Attack… and a few Gala Violet tracks slipped into the shadows. Press play below to listen to the full Mixcloud broadcast.



Forkin’ Around with Mickey Fingers

The Forbidden Valentine Mix


February 12, 2026

with Mickey Fingers & Celeste Violet


💋 EXPLICIT CONTENT.

Wear headphones. Or don’t.


Slide into something scandalous and meet us under the red light for a night of forbidden love songs, shameless innuendo, retro lounge oddities, and the occasional kazoo solo.


It’s Valentine’s Day in Eclectic Wonderland, and your host Mickey Fingers is officially forkin’ around - in the kitchen, in your head, and somewhere in the backseat of a 1964 velvet-trimmed heartbreak machine.


This three-hour after-hours mix is full of musical misbehavior: dark cabaret moods, trip-hop ache, post-punk longing, velvet-noir seduction, and songs that kiss like a bruise.


Featuring artists like IAMX, Portishead, Depeche Mode, Placebo, Hooverphonic, Massive Attack, and a few Gala Violet tracks quietly slipped into the shadows.


Co-curated with DJ Celeste Violet, because obviously we couldn’t behave.



Not For Radio


Not for your mom.

Not for your emotional stability.


Some mixes are made for the airwaves.


This one was made for the shadows.


Forkin’ Around with Mickey Fingers is a not-so-radio-friendly Valentine playlist — a seductive, darkwave-leaning, trip-hop-laced velvet-noir mixtape designed for after-hours listening and questionable decisions.


The kind of playlist that doesn’t ask permission.


It just pours another drink and hits play.


The Velvet Umbrella After Hours Begins


This episode also marks the beginning of something new.


Velvet Umbrella Radio: After Hours is now an official series produced by DJ Celeste and Mickey Fingers, exploring the darker corners of Eclectic Wonderland - where the playlists get stranger, the stories get a little more theatrical, and the lights stay low.


Think:

• late-night radio theatre

• seductive darkwave detours

• spoken-word mischief

• musical deep cuts

• and the occasional kazoo-driven act of rebellion


Because sometimes the best radio happens after the FCC goes to bed.


The Kind of Love Songs That Leave Marks
















This mix lives in that space between longing and lust.


The songs don’t behave.


They smolder.


They ache.


They whisper things that probably shouldn’t be said out loud.


The best love stories don’t stay neat.


They leave fingerprints.


They leave lipstick.


They leave bruises.


And sometimes…


they leave a fork on the table with a message on it.



The Midnight Transmission


After Hours Links:













Transmission Fragments from the Velvet Umbrella
































































Listen to the Full Mix


Mickey Fingers – Intro Into Mickey’s Corner  








IAMX – Spit It Out  



She Wants Revenge – Tear You Apart  



Depeche Mode – Strangelove  



Nine Inch Nails – Closer  



Mickey Fingers – Spooning the Void  








Gala Violet – The Truth Between the Ribs


 

Mickey Fingers – 2nd Segment 








Gala Violet – Mirror Mirror on the Ceiling  



Goldfrapp – Ooh La La  



FKA twigs – Two Weeks  



Sevdaliza – Marilyn Monroe  



Róisín Murphy – Ramalama (Bang Bang)  




St. Vincent – Los Ageless  



IAMX – Kiss and Swallow  



Mickey Fingers - 3rd Segment


 






Mazzy Star – Fade Into You  



Chris Isaak – Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing  



Lana Del Rey – Gods & Monsters  



Cigarettes After Sec– K.  



Gala Violet– Almost 



BANKS – Waiting Game  



Fever Ray – Keep the Streets Empty for You



Gala Violet – Elephant In The Room 



Mickey Fingers - 4th segment 








Bat for Lashes – What’s a Girl to Do? (Radio Edit)  



Ladytron – Destroy Everything You Touch  



Garbage – #1 Crush  



Depeche Mode – It’s No Good


 

Goldfrapp – Strict Machine  



Trentemøller – Moan (Trentemøller Remix)


 

Micky Fingers - 5th Segment 








Portishead – Glory Box



Hooverphonic - 2Wicky



Depeche Mode - Blue Dress



Placebo – Pure Morning (Radio Edit)  



Goldfrapp – Lovely Head


 

Tricky – Overcome  



Dead Can Dance – The Ubiquitous Mr Lovegrove



Mickey Fingers - Hearts Intro








Collide – Haunted When the Minute Drags



IAMX – I Come With Knives  



Rasputina – Transylvanian Concubine 



Massive Attack – Angel



Depeche Mode - Stripped 




Mickey Fingers – Last segment 









Thank you for listening 💋




Mickey Fingers

Mickey Fingers


Celeste Violet | DJ Celeste | DJ Tea

Celeste Violet


After Hours is part of the Velvet Umbrella Radio After Hours series, produced by DJ Celeste and Mickey Fingers for the Eclectic Wonderland universe.



Velvet Umbrella Radio: After Hours

with Mickey Fingers & DJ Celeste Violet

Where the playlists get darker, the stories get stranger,

and the forks are rarely used for dinner.



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