Forkin' Around With Mickey Fingers | The Forbidden Valentine Mix
- Mickey Fingers
- 2 hours ago
- 3 min read
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
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.