Sea, Swallow Me
- Mickey Fingers
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Sea, Swallow Me
May 22, 2026 12:00 am | Central
With Mickey Fingers & Celeste Violet
“Sea, Swallow Me” is the third and final chapter in the Snapshots From The Boardwalk trilogy from Velvet Umbrella Radio and Velvet Umbrella Records.
What began in daylight through Eclectic Wonderland’s postcard romance, and drifted deeper into neon longing during After Hours: Darkroom By The Ocean, finally dissolves here into the tide itself.
This is the afterglow.
The hidden room after midnight.
The photobooth kiss that lingered too long.
The sound of waves moving beneath motel floorboards somewhere between memory and dreamtime.
Featuring music from Cocteau Twins, Massive Attack, Portishead, AIR, Slowdive, PJ Harvey, Placebo, Fever Ray, Beach House, Björk, Dead Can Dance, and more, Sea, Swallow Me drifts through dream-pop haze, noir romance, longing, ocean-static devotion, velvet shadows, and the beautiful surrender of becoming undone.
The trilogy unfolds like a looping memory:
young love, older love, the spaces between photographs, and the rooms we return to when the world becomes too heavy.
More transmissions, hidden corridors, companion pieces, and midnight frequencies await at VelvetUmbrellaRadio.com
Peace, love, and cosmic bunny rabbits. 🌊💋📻
Cool Shit Inside: The Boardwalk Trilogy
Somewhere between the postcard racks, photobooth curtains, soft neon, and ocean static… the trilogy started becoming something larger than playlists.
Not just broadcasts.
Artifacts.
The trilogy unfolds in three stages:
🌞 Eclectic Wonderland: “Snapshots From The Boardwalk”
The beginning. Young love. Daylight. The postcard version of memory.
🌙 Velvet Umbrella Radio: After Hours
– “Darkroom By The Ocean”
The nighttime version. Neon reflections. Film grain. Photobooth kisses lingering too long.
🌊 Petals & Hooks – “Sea, Swallow Me”
The final drift into dreamtime, longing, memory, and the ocean itself.
Tiny emotional weather systems stitched together through songs, memory fragments, seaside frequencies, fading photographs, and the strange little places we revisit when ordinary life starts feeling too loud.
And maybe that’s what Velvet Umbrella Radio has quietly become over time:
not escape exactly…
more like a hidden boardwalk for the hopeless romantics,
the overfeelers,
the night wanderers,
and the people still looking for magic in the static.
Which brings us to Mickey’s Corner… 💋📻🌊
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Mickey's Corner
The Tide Keeps The Photographs Anyway
Somewhere along the way…the boardwalk disappeared.
Not all at once.
Just slowly.
Like neon fading at sunrise.
Like postcards left too long inside glove compartments.
Like songs becoming memories before they even finish playing.
Sea, Swallow Me was never really built like a radio show.
It drifted together.
Late-night frequencies passed back and forth between friends.
Fragments of old dream-pop records.
Ocean static.
Photobooth ghosts.
The feeling of sitting beside somebody at 2 a.m. without needing to explain why the room suddenly feels haunted in a beautiful way.
By the time this third room opened, the trilogy had stopped behaving like programming and started feeling more like memory retrieval.
Not nostalgia exactly.
Something softer than that.
Maybe recognition.
Maybe longing.
Maybe the strange comfort of realizing some places never fully leave you once they’ve lived inside your emotional landscape.
The ocean keeps those things.
The songs do too.
And maybe that’s why we keep building these little Velvet Umbrella corridors in the first place.
Not to escape the world.
Just to leave tiny glowing rooms inside it for the people who still need somewhere soft to land.
-Mickey
“Slip One To Me” was never originally planned as an official Gala Violet release.
It drifted into existence slowly…
through late-night Velvet Umbrella Radio conversations, half-joking frequencies, cocktail noir aesthetics, seaside dream logic, and the strange emotional static that tends to appear whenever Celeste, Mickey Fingers, and Collin start building worlds together.
At one point, nobody was even sure if the song would ever leave the Velvet Umbrella universe at all.
Maybe it still hasn’t completely.
Now it exists somewhere between:
a Gala Violet transmission,
a private after-hours artifact,
a memory left humming inside motel neon,
and a lipstick-stained postcard from a dream place near the ocean.
Which honestly feels exactly right.
Some songs don’t belong to the industry.
They belong to the atmosphere.
-Mickey 🌊
The Room Where It Starts
All India Radio – Asphyxiate
Julee Cruise – Floating
Cocteau Twins – Frou-Frou Foxes In Midsummer Fires
Slowdive – Alison
Brian Eno & Harold Budd – The Pearl
Air – Playground Love (feat. Gordon Tracks)
Tiare Helberg – Blue Orchid
Hex – Monarch (2024 Remaster)
Matthew Simpson-Morgan – To Somewhere Far (feat. Lisa Belles)
All India Radio – Far Away
Cocteau Twins – Heaven or Las Vegas
Beach House – Once Twice Melody
Barrie – Clovers
Nina Gordon – Tonight and the Rest of My Life
Portishead – Roads
Massive Attack – Teardrop
Massive Attack – Angel
Björk – Hidden Place
PJ Harvey – When Under Ether
Goldfrapp – Black Cherry
Pulp – Pencil Skirt
Depeche Mode – Waiting for the Night
Portishead – Glory Box
Sneaker Pimps – 6 Underground
Curve – Horror Head
Garbage – #1 Crush
Depeche Mode – It’s No Good
Fever Ray – Keep the Streets Empty for Me
FKA twigs – Cellophane
St. Vincent – Digital Witness
Trentemøller – Moan (Trentemøller Remix Radio Edit)
She Wants Revenge – Tear You Apart
Bat for Lashes – Moon and Moon
Placebo – Pure Morning
Placebo – Running Up That Hill
Dead Can Dance – The Host of Seraphim (Remastered)
Brian Eno – An Ending (Ascent)
Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd – Sea, Swallow Me
Stars of the Lid – A Meaningful Moment Through a Meaning(less) Process
Velvet Umbrella Transmission Archive
The carnival has packed up…🎡
Crocodile skin water, city shadows wait
Put your head into your hands, the ending is so great
Take a ride to sundown, buy a ticket home
Take all the things I've bought you, leave all the rest alone
Marble skins turn human, people fade to gray
Put your head into my hands we'll make them go away
As you're crying softly, you won't ever be disturbed
Red on pink, the sun will sink, have you even heard?
And the colors take me down
It's no reason to be sad
And you leave without a sound
It's no reason to be glad
Salty tears are wasted, children lie awake
Put your head into my hands, don't let your spirit break
Black smoke from the chimneys, white smoke from the hills
Everything is moving, but we're standing still
Celebrations fading, boats upon the waves
Put your head into my hands, trying to be brave
The carnival has packed up, the storm has left us peace
Poppies sleep undamaged, we drive into the east
-Steve Kilbey
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COOL SHIT INSIDE | The Boardwalk Trilogy
Eclectic Wonderland drifts onto the boardwalk this week with “Snapshots From The Boardwalk” - Part One of a three-part Velvet Umbrella Radio story unfolding across daytime radio, After Hours, and Mixcloud.
This first chapter feels like walking in from the ocean through the back door of an old seaside memory… past flickering lights, faded postcards, neon signs, photobooths, and the ghosts of every version of yourself that ever fell in love.
Featuring dream-pop, trip-hop, lounge noir, soft-focus romance, and late-night cinematic shimmer from AIR, Saint Etienne, Goldfrapp, Hooverphonic, Cocteau Twins, Massive Attack, Mazzy Star, Zero 7, Sneaker Pimps, and more.
The story follows two souls across years of snapshots and shifting seasons… beginning sweetly in the daylight before drifting deeper into the night.
Wednesday from 1 to 3 p.m. Central…
“Snapshots From The Boardwalk”
Some memories fade.
Some stay developing in the dark.
Then Friday overnight…
Velvet Umbrella Radio:
After Hours continues the story with:
‘Darkroom By The Ocean.’
“Darkroom By The Ocean” continues the Velvet Umbrella Radio trilogy with late-night photobooths, ocean static, hidden places, slow-burn romance, and songs that glow like cigarette embers against the tide.
The postcard sweetness of “Snapshots From The Boardwalk” gives way to something more intimate here. The lights are lower. The waves are louder. The kisses linger longer between camera flashes.
Expect dream-pop, darkwave, noir romance, midnight longing, and seaside spellwork from Cocteau Twins, PJ Harvey, Massive Attack, Portishead, Hooverphonic, Depeche Mode, Siouxsie & The Banshees, and more.
Part Three Petals & Hooks
Sea, Swallow Me [Mixcloud Only]
Sea, Swallow Me is the third and final chapter in the Snapshots From The Boardwalk trilogy from Velvet Umbrella Records.
What began in daylight with Eclectic Wonderland’s dreamy postcard romance, and drifted deeper into neon longing during After Hours: Darkroom By The Ocean, finally dissolves here into the tide itself.
This is the late-night version of the story. The afterglow.
The photobooth kisses that linger too long. The sound of waves outside a hidden room somewhere between memory and dreamtime.
Featuring music from Cocteau Twins, Massive Attack, Portishead, Air, Slowdive, PJ Harvey, Placebo, Fever Ray, Beach House, Björk, Dead Can Dance, and more, Sea, Swallow Me moves through noir romance, longing, dream-pop haze, velvet shadows, and ocean-lit devotion.
The trilogy unfolds like a looping memory:
young love,
older love,
the spaces between photographs,
and the places we return to when the world becomes too heavy.
More doors, stories, visuals, and companion shows can be found at VelvetUmbrellaRadio.com
Peace, love, and cosmic bunny rabbits.
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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.
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