Petals Before Midnight
- Mickey Fingers
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Petals Before Midnight
March 11, 2026
with DJ Tea, Mr. Announcer Man & Mickey Fingers
1–3pm CST on WDRT 91.9FM | Listen Live »
By Celeste Violet (DJ Tea) & Mickey Fingers
Petals Before Midnight
This week’s Eclectic Wonderland episode begins innocently enough.
Jangly guitars, dreamy indie melodies, and a few songs that sound like they belong in the background of a road trip movie.
Belle & Sebastian open the door, The Sundays and The Shins keep things warm, and soon we’re drifting through the shimmering haze of Beach House and Slowdive.
But somewhere around the midpoint, Mickey Fingers starts hinting that the afternoon might not stay so innocent.
The guitars grow darker.
The synths pulse a little deeper.
By the time we reach Chromatics, Drab Majesty, and Molchat Doma, it’s clear the day is quietly slipping toward midnight.
And if you listen carefully…
You might hear a whisper about something called Petals & Hooks.
-Celeste Violet (DJ Tea)
🖤 Mickey’s Corner Blurb
What Crawled Out of the Record Bin This Week
This week’s Eclectic Wonderland show starts sweet and ends suspicious.
Belle & Sebastian and The Sundays open the afternoon with jangly charm before the room slowly fills with dream pop, shoegaze haze, and the occasional questionable life decision.
By the time Drab Majesty, Molchat Doma, and Lebanon Hanover arrive, the mood has shifted from sunshine to something much closer to midnight.
Let’s just say…
If you stay up late enough, you might discover where the petals end and the hooks begin.
Premiers Midnight On 3.12.26 Click Show Art To Listen Live | Midnight
Petals & Hooks – a 4‑hour After Hours mix, the latest chapter of the Velvet Umbrella Radio: After Hours project from Celeste Violet and Mickey Fingers. This darkwave / post‑punk ritual set premieres at midnight Eastern (11 pm Central), going into Thursday, March 12. [Click Show Art To Find Out More]
Petals Before Midnight airs live on WDRT; Petals & Hooks premieres on Mixcloud. Both shows will have easy “listen” buttons on eclecticwonderland.rocks, plus links on the Event Space and the Eclectic Wonderland Facebook page. There will be special show notes on Eclectic Wonderland, and replay options if you can’t make the live shows.
Playlist/tracklist for Petals Before Midnight will be on Spinitron. The 4‑hour Petals & Hooks mix will stream on Mixcloud with the full playlist embedded there.
– Mickey Fingers
Petals & Hooks – 4-Hour Dark-Wave Ritual Mix
Velvet Umbrella Radio • After Hours with Mickey Fingers & DJ Celeste
A midnight transmission stitched together as one continuous spell: 4 hours of dark-wave, cold-wave, post-punk and shadow-pop—drifting from dreamy noir into full cathedral-in-the-night grandeur.
Hour 1 – Velvet Door Opens
Chromatics glide into Boy Harsher and Lebanon Hanover before Mickey cracks the velvet door and lets Linea Aspera, Cold Cave, The Soft Moon and classic Cure seep through.
Hour 2 – Colder Cities / Cold-Wave Pulse
Molchat Doma, She Past Away, Motorama and Twin Tribes soundtrack snow-lit streets. A quick I.D. and we slam into Sextile, ACTORS and Gary Numan.
Hour 3 – Puppet Master’s Garden
Mickey’s whisper ushers in Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Portishead’s “Machine Gun,” Chelsea Wolfe, Fever Ray and a nine-minute communion with The Sisters of Mercy before Bauhaus and Dead Can Dance pull the veil tighter.
Hour 4 – Smoke, Static & Dawn Never Comes
Joy Division’s “Atmosphere,” Drab Majesty, Cocteau Twins, Twin Tribes, ACTORS and a final run of gothic epics—Sisters’ “Lucretia,” Fields of the Nephilim and Dead Can Dance’s “Host of Seraphim”—carry us to the edge of morning.
Stay awake if you dare; replay if you must.
Links, lore & late-night extras at EclecticWonderland.rocks and on our socials.
Midnight creatures—we’ll meet you under the Velvet Umbrella.
Peace, love, and cosmic bunny rabbits.
-Mickey Fingers & Celeste Violet (DJ Tea)
Set your reminders!
After Hours Links:
Playlist
✨ Dive into the full playlist below — with videos linked for every track, so you can watch, listen, and wander through the eclectic flow.
Set your reminders!
A Fun Little Promo!
Eclectic Wonderland Links (Links In Pink!)
Show Notes & The full playlist: {Links Are Pink!}
Intro
(01) Mickey Fingers – Show Intro: “Petals Before Midnight”
(02) Belle and Sebastian – Funny Little Frog
(03) The Sundays – Here’s Where the Story Ends
(04) The Shins – New Slang
(05) Alvvays – Archie, Marry Me
(06) Evan Blum & Michelle Raitzin – Endless Sky
Second Set
(07) Mickey Fingers – Intro: “Candle Light Songs”
(08) Beach House – Space Song
(09) Slowdive – Sugar for the Pill
(10) Mazzy Star – Fade Into You
(11) Still Corners – The Trip (2023 Remaster)
(12) Björk – Frosti
Third Set
(13) Mickey Fingers – Segment 2: “Poor Decisions and Good Music”
(14) Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps
(15) Phoenix – Lisztomania
(16) Vampire Weekend – A-Punk
(17) MGMT – Electric Feel
(18) The Evolution Control Committee – Spandau Filet
Fourth Set
(19) Mickey Fingers – Station ID
(20) Cigarettes After Sex – Apocalypse
(21) Angel Olsen – Shut Up Kiss Me
(22) St. Vincent – Digital Witness
(23) Interpol – Evil
(24) Raymond Scott – Lightworks (Instrumental)
Fifth Set
(25) Chromatics – Shadow
(26) Mickey Fingers – Segment 3: “Lights Get Low”
(27) TR/ST – Sulk
(28) The Kills – Future Starts Now
(29) Drab Majesty – Ellipsis
(30) Molchat Doma – Судно (Борис Рижий)
(31) Boy Harsher – Pain
(32) Lebanon Hanover – Gallowdance
(33) Mickey Fingers – Teaser for “Petals & Hooks”
(34) Angelo Badalamenti – Dance of the Dream Man
(35) Mickey Fingers – Outro, Part 1
(36) Echo & The Bunnymen – The Killing Moon
(37) Mickey Fingers – Closer
The Russian track Sudno (Судно) literally means “bedpan” because the song references a Soviet poem about dying in a hospital.
“Fun fact, this next song’s title basically means bedpan… which reminds me of the time I personally fertilized half the rail line between Moscow and Leningrad,”
-Celeste (DJ Tea)
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Peace, Love & Cosmic Bunny Rabbits!
-Celeste (DJ Tea), Mr Announcer Man, Dewey Lewis & Mickey Fingers