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Petals & Hooks: No Idea… Surrendered


Petals & Hooks: No Idea… Surrendered is a 3‑hour  long-form descent built from drift, release, and the quiet space that follows. What begins in tension slowly unravels—through darkwave, post-punk, and dreamlike textures—until the need for control dissolves completely.

This is not a playlist.

It’s a space. – just one long, stretch of Velvet Umbrella After Dark | Petals & Hooks [Mixcloud Only].


Petals & Hooks: No Idea… Surrendered

A continuous late-night environment


April 25 2026 12:00 am | Central

With Mickey Fingers & Celeste Violet


No plan. No exit. Just… stay.


This week didn’t begin with intention.

It began with overwhelm.



Taxes, tech failures, lost files, and the kind of pressure that builds quietly until something gives. What followed wasn’t a decision - it was a release.


Petals & Hooks: No Idea… Surrendered is the third movement in a week that moved from control… to confusion… to something softer, deeper, and more honest.


This is where the structure dissolves.


Built as a continuous mix, it drifts through darkwave, post-punk, ambient, and dreamlike textures - allowing repetition, emotion, and space to take the lead. Somewhere in the middle, something shifts. Not because it was planned… but because it stopped needing to be.


A faint thread returns - an echo of something from earlier in the week, a song that never quite resolved… appearing now like a memory rather than a destination.


And then… it lets go.


This isn’t about finding answers.

It’s about allowing what’s already there to be felt.


If you’ve been holding something…

this is where you can set it down.


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This Week, Mickey's In Charge. 3 Shows. No Idea




🎙️ MICKEY’S CORNER



Mickey’s Corner: Surrender


I tried to hold onto the plan.

I really did.


But somewhere between the noise, the signals, and whatever this week turned into…

it stopped making sense to keep trying.


So I let it go.


What came after that… wasn’t cleaner.

It wasn’t easier.

But it was real.




Collin showed up again - quietly, like he tends to do - and somewhere in between moving things around and testing sounds, something started to take shape.







Not a plan.

Not a structure.


Just… a space.


We stayed in it.


And that’s what this is.



The Room Where It Starts





  • IAMX – Bernadette  



  • Lebanon Hanover – Gallowdance

 



  • Tones On Tail – Burning Skies

 


  • She Past Away – Ritüel  



  • IAMX – I Come With Knives  



  • Boy Harsher – Pain  




  • Cocteau Twins – Fifty-Fifty Clown  




4) Florence + the Machine – Cosmic Love  



5) Austra – Spellwork  



6) Black Moth Super Rainbow – Forever Heavy  



7) The Evolution Control Committee – Spandau Filet [break]



  • The Smiths – A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours


  

  • The Cult – She Sells Sanctuary  



  • Love and Rockets – All in My Mind  




  • The Chameleons – Tears (Original Arrangement)


 

  • Blur – Beetlebum  



  • Florence + the Machine – Free


 

  • Midge Ure – Edo  



  • Cocteau Twins – Heaven or Las Vegas  



  • Dead Can Dance – The Host of Seraphim  



  • This Mortal Coil – Song to the Siren

 


  • Massive Attack – Teardrop  



  • Depeche Mode – It’s No Good



  • Chromatics – Shadow

 

  • Cocteau Twins – Cherry-Coloured Funk  

  • Mazzy Star – Fade Into You


  • Beach House – Space Song  



  • The Cure – Pictures of You  

  • Brian Eno – An Ending (Ascent)  

  • Brian Eno & Harold Budd – The Pearl  

  • A Winged Victory for the Sullen – Steep Hills of Vicodin Tears  

  • Stars of the Lid – Requiem for Dying Mothers, Pt. 2  

  • Gaye Su Akyol – Love Buzz  

  • William Basinski – Dlp 1.1.1  




The Corridor


Most people don’t make it this far.




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This Week, Mickey's In Charge. 3 Shows. No Idea





Part 3 of 3 (And We have nothing else to say about it)




First Show, No Idea… We Do Not Even Know








After Hours: Fridays overnight at 2am on WDRT.
No plan. No structure. No roadmap.



This Show: Petals & Hooks: Friday overnight at midnight on Mixcloud only






This 3-hour Petals & Hooks Mixcloud set blends darkwave, ambient, post-punk, and cinematic textures into a continuous late-night listening experience designed for deep emotional release and immersive listening.








Thank you for listening 💋



Mickey Fingers

Mickey Fingers


Celeste Violet | DJ Celeste | DJ Tea

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.





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.



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