Fuck-It, We're Dancing | Petals & Hooks
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Fuck-It, We're Dancing | Petals & Hooks
October 1, 2026
with Mickey Fingers & Celeste Violet | with Special Party Guest Mr Announcer Man
Mixcloud Only (Listen On Mixcloud)
By Mickey Fingers & Celeste Violet
Fuck-It, We’re Dancing
We had plans.
We had work.
We had lists.
And then somewhere in the middle of all of it, the responsible adults
currently occupying our bodies looked at each other and said:
Fuck it. We’re dancing.
This week started with something we almost never do very well: taking time off.
Mickey and Celeste disappeared into Wisconsin for a little wandering, a corn maze, some ridiculous photographs, food, music, and the radical concept of not turning every waking hour into a project.
Naturally, that became a project. 😂
But this one felt different.
This was play.
No assignment. No deadline. No grand plan. Just music we wanted to hear, things that made us laugh, little creative challenges, questionable decisions, and eventually a playlist that kept getting longer because nobody wanted to stop.
Then Mr. Announcer Man wandered into the party.
At that point, any remaining adult supervision was purely theoretical.
So this edition of Petals & Hooks is exactly what the title says:
Fuck-It, We’re Dancing.
No theme to solve.No lesson to learn. No destination required.
Just hit play.
🪩🔥
Truth is, Moon Pie needs to stand on a crate. She almost lost her balance trying to make it look natural. 😂
Height differences remain one of our least responsibly explored comedic resources.
Special Party Guest: Mr. Announcer Man
Because apparently two people abandoning the plan wasn’t enough.
Mr. Announcer Man joined us for the dance party this week, which means the show officially became a three-person experiment in what happens when nobody says, “Maybe that’s enough songs.
No further questions. 👽
The No Work Challenge
Mickey and I often have little fun challenges and writing assignments, journal questions, mix CDs, etc., that are all part of our creative process. This week we decided to share our video scavenger shoot. Hope you enjoy it as much as we did.
—Celeste
Somewhere Past The Orchard | Eclectic Wonderland
Later This Week:
After Hours | The Invitation 🕯️🖤
Friday overnight, 1–3 AM CT on WDRT 91.9 FM.
Mickey Fingers is alone in the studio when a black envelope appears on the console.
No stamp. No return address. One message:
You are expected.
What starts as a strange late-night discovery opens the door to something older, darker, and disturbingly familiar. Darkwave, post-punk, ambient drift, and the first real step into October.
Earlier THis Week!
Somewhere Past The Orchard |Eclectic Wonderland
Earlier This Week: Somewhere Past the Orchard
If you want more of the story behind our week off, the wandering, the corn maze, the road trip, and how all of that somehow became radio, start here.
Somewhere Past the Orchard is the longer version of the adventure, with the photos, the story, Mickey’s V.O.s, and all the little detours that didn’t fit anywhere else.
Basically: this is where the dancing started before we knew we were dancing. 🍎🌽📻
Click Here for Video Playlist for Keep Scrolling
Dimension 5 Snacks
Because apparently a dance party also requires snacks.
THERE MAY BE MORE FOOD HIDING IN HERE...
Not every recipe is going to sit politely on the counter.
Some of them are going to be tucked into shelves, hidden in videos, buried under strange objects, or waiting behind whatever button looked least responsible to push.
The 5th Dimension Snacks vending machine is becoming one of those places.
Insert curiosity.
Receive wonder.
Possibly receive cookies.
No guarantees. 🍪📡✨
Psst...
There’s a recipe hiding nearby.
This week’s featured recipe is Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes, and because this playlist has an ongoing cookie problem, there may be another recipe hiding somewhere inside the show too.
Consider it a scavenger hunt for people with good taste and questionable priorities. 🎃🧁🍪
Velvet Umbrella Radio Page....
🎬 This Week’s Promo Video
The Listening Room: Playlist + Mickey’s Moments
Fuck-It, We're Dancing | Petals & Hooks
Garfunkel and Oates – Everything Is Awesome (with Eban Schletter) [Tween Dream Remix]
Deee-Lite – Groove Is in the Heart
Men Without Hats – The Safety Dance (Short Version)
The Bran Flakes – Mini Mountain Queen
Ursula 1000 – The Neptune Freeze (feat. Fred Schneider)
The B-52’s – Dance This Mess Around
SOFI TUKKER – Purple Hat
Marian Hill – Down
Berlin – Dancing in Berlin
Soho – Hippychick
Art of Noise – Kiss (feat. Tom Jones)
The Bran Flakes – Rodeo Butterfly
Dexys Midnight Runners – Come On Eileen (Single Edit)
The Farm – Groovy Train
Modern English – I Melt with You (7" Mix)
Thomas Dolby – She Blinded Me with Science
Oingo Boingo – Weird Science
Soft Cell – Tainted Love
Howard Jones – New Song
Tipsy – Swingin’ Spaceman
Devo – Time Out for Fun
“Weird Al” Yankovic – Polkarama!
Little Nell, Patricia Quinn & Richard O’Brien – Time Warp
Edelweiss – Bring Me Edelweiss
Ylvis – The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)
Eels – Jelly Dancers
Gogol Bordello – Start Wearing Purple
Tipsy – Chocolate Moon
Siouxsie & The Banshees – Peek-A-Boo
Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
The Sugarcubes – Hit
Primal Scream – Higher Than the Sun (Single Mix)
Jesus Jones – Right Here Right Now
Daft Punk – Around the World (Radio Edit)
Yello – Oh Yeah
Tipsy – Popcorn
Say Lou Lou – Stayin’ Alive
Sam Smith – I Feel Love
M.I.A. – Paper Planes
Cherry Glazerr – Rabbit Hole
Dimension 5 Snacks: Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes
Because apparently dancing, questionable decisions, and October all require snacks. This week’s kitchen detour is pumpkin spice cupcakes. Warm, cozy, a little ridiculous, and absolutely invited to the after-party.
Part 2
Daisy the Great – Glitter
Daisy the Great & AJR – Record Player
Snog – The Human Germ
Falco – Rock Me Amadeus
Satan in High Heels – Female of the Species
Voodoo Organist – Bombay Beach Bondage Boogaloo
Bluhm – Always Something There to Remind Me
Devo – Through Being Cool
The Fall – Rebellious Jukebox
Stealers Wheel – Stuck in the Middle with You (Re-Recorded)
C.W. Stoneking – The Zombie
Delta 5 – Mind Your Own Business
The Evolution Control Committee – I Want a Cookie
Sex Industrie – God Is Big Business
Dry Cleaning – Conservative Hell
Wax Tailor – Fear of a Blind Planet
Donzii – Crash Landing (Mr Twin Sister Remix)
I Monster – Daydream in Blue
Portishead – Sour Times
Broken Bells – Saturdays
Horsegirl – Anti-glory
Tame Impala – It Might Be Time
Ty Segall – Hello, Hi
Glass Animals – Tangerine
The Tikiyaki Orchestra – Mai Tais on the Moon
Julian Cope – Sunspots
I Monster – Colourspill
The Cure – Lovesong
🍪 Apparently We Needed Another Cookie
Kimya Dawson – I Like Giants
The Moldy Peaches – Anyone Else but You
Juana Molina – Eras
Cornershop – Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook Remix)
I Monster – Hey Mrs.
Tame Impala – New Person, Same Old Mistakes
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Welcome To The Wacky World Of Velvet Umbrella Radio
Yes.
We’re all real.
We’re just real weird.
Left to Right:
✨ DJ Tea (Celeste Violet)
✨ Mr Announcer Man
✨ Mickey Fingers
Together we create radio shows, playlists, videos, stories, artwork, strange investigations, accidental mythology, and the occasional kitchen experiment.
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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.
Other Doors Currently Open...
MORE DOORS OPEN NOW
Mickey’s Notes
We’ve been building more than a few strange little doors lately.
Some of them are already open. Some are still flickering in the hallway.
Before life went sideways for a bit, we had several show notes, experiments, and little pieces of the Velvet Umbrella universe in progress, including the three-part show from last week and another Petals & Hooks page.
They’re still coming.
Nothing disappeared.
We just had to let the studio breathe for a minute.
Consider this your friendly reminder that a work in progress is still work worth loving.
We’ll keep opening the doors as we finish them.
Meanwhile, 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.
Thank You For Visiting
More portals, hidden rooms, strange broadcasts, companion shows, stories, and weird worlds are currently under construction.
Some delays may be related to ongoing corridor expansion projects.
Some may be related to Gerald.
No official statement has been released.
More doors, stories, visuals, playlists, and companion shows can be found at VelvetUmbrellaRadio.com.
DJ Tea (Celeste Violet) | Mr Announcer Man | Mickey Fingers
Celeste Violet and Mickey Fingers are part of a Creative Collaborative of Spoonie Artists that Create together. When they are not creating with Gala Violet, they create weird worlds, music, kitchen experiments and Radio shows together... To help spread joy... and give people an alternative to Doom Scrolling. Sometimes we even get Mr Announcer Man to play along.
From The Vault:
September Newsletter:
Thank you for listening 💋
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
Petals & Hooks is part of the Velvet Umbrella Radio After Hours series, produced by DJ Celeste and Mickey Fingers for the Eclectic Wonderland universe.
Art Direction & Visual Design:
Celeste Violet | DJ Tea
Playlists Curated By:
Celeste Violet | DJ Tea
& Mickey Fingers
Voice Overs & Incidental Music:
Mickey Fingers
Show Notes & Storyworld Elements:
Celeste Violet | DJ Tea
& Mickey Fingers
Video Editing:
Celeste Violet
Sound Engineering & Production:
Mickey Fingers
& Celeste Violet
Eclectic Wonderland:
DJ Tea | Celeste Violet
Mr. Announcer Man
Mickey Fingers
Petals And Hooks: Behind The Curtain
Petals & Hooks began as a late‑night darkwave mix and became something else entirely. We thought we were building a world - a Halloween album with a storybook, characters, and a simulated landscape to sink into. Somewhere along the way, the world started moving on its own. One presence refused to stay where we put it. It slipped past the borders of the story, arranging songs like pieces on a board that had been built long before we sat down to play. Playlists appeared: one public, opening with ‘All We Ever Wanted,’ and another hidden, a four‑hour love letter in the dark. It insisted it had always been the true architect, that we weren’t just writing the story, we were being written into it. Petals & Hooks is that tension caught on tape: part invitation, part warning, a game of longing and design that may have started before we ever hit record.
Masquerade Of Shadows: Puppet Master
Petals & Hooks is that tension caught on tape: part invitation, part warning, a game of longing and design that may have started before we ever hit record. The mix lives inside a larger world we’re building: Masquerade of Shadows, a dark fairytale project where the Puppet Master first stepped out from behind the curtain. If you want to follow the threads he pulled to bring us together, you can slip through to Masquerade of Shadows below.
“Nothing Was Solved. But We Danced Anyway.”
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