The Found PLaylist | RockToberrr week 3 (Part 1 Of 4) | Eclectic Wonderland
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The Found PLaylist | RockToberrr week 3 (Part 1 Of 4) | Eclectic Wonderland
October 14, 2026
with DJ Tea, Mr. Announcer Man & Mickey Fingers
1–3pm CST on WDRT 91.9FM | Listen Live »
By DJ Tea (DJ Celeste) & Mickey Fingers
✨ Eclectic Wonderland: ROCKTOBERRR | DJ Tea | Celeste Violet & Mickey Fingers
The Found PLaylist.
Eclectic Wonderland | ROCKTOBERRR 2026 Week 3 • Part 1 of 4
Someone Left the Records.
It should have been an ordinary afternoon in Eclectic Wonderland.
Well, our particular version of ordinary.
A few unusual records. Some familiar voices. Two hours of music with Celeste Violet, Mickey Fingers, and Mr. Announcer Man.
Then somebody left a stack of records at the radio station.
No explanation. No return address.
Just four words:
Play them in order.
Naturally, we did.
What followed was a series of peculiar discoveries. A hallway that seemed longer than it should have been. A door where no door had existed. A studio log recording events that hadn't happened yet.
And somewhere beneath the music, something that sounded almost like another radio signal.
Then came the photograph.
Two familiar faces, an ivory rose, and a date written on the back.
October 25, 1883.
143.
Suddenly, the records didn't seem quite so random.
Welcome to The Found Playlist, the next chapter of our ROCKTOBERRR adventure.
Listen to the transmissions. Examine the artifacts. Follow the music.
And remember, just because a story was imagined doesn't necessarily mean everyone in it has forgotten.
Mickey Fingers | The Studio Log
THE FIRST WRONG DOOR
Mickey noticed the door first.
Celeste remembered a mirror.
Which one of them was mistaken?
Perhaps neither.
There are places where memory and architecture don't quite agree. Apparently, our radio station has become one of them.
Mickey Fingers | The First Wrong Door
Celeste Violet | There wasn't A Door There...
Mickey Fingers | The Handwriting
SOMETHING IN THE MUSIC
At first, it was barely noticeable.
A little hiss. A scratching sound. Something resembling a radio being tuned between stations.
A peculiar thing to hear while you're broadcasting rather than receiving.
Celeste mentioned it.
And then, just as she was beginning to make sense of it, the sound disappeared.
For a while.
Celeste Violet | Something In The Music
THE PHOTOGRAPH
The photograph appeared to be very old.
The clothing, the pose, the elaborate details of the gentleman's coat.
Everything suggested another century.
But the faces...
Well.
There are some resemblances that are difficult to explain.
And others that are considerably harder to ignore.
On the reverse, somebody had written a date and three numbers.
October 25, 1883.
143.
Mickey had questions.
Celeste had rather more.
And the records were still waiting.
Mickey Fingers | The People In the Photograph
Celeste Violet | Wait Mickey, Let Me See That
Mickey Fingers | Two Places At Once
TWO PLACES AT ONCE
There are moments when a song stops feeling like a selection from a playlist and begins to sound like part of the conversation.
This was one of them.
Perhaps two stories can occupy the same moment.
Perhaps two people can recognize something they have never experienced.
Or perhaps the records know exactly what they're doing.
Listen closely.
The Church - Two Places At Once
Mickey Fingers | The Records Know Something
Mickey Fingers & Gala Violet | Too Many Mirrors (Instrumental) Masquerade Of Shadows
Mickey Fingers | The Entry I Haven't Written
A VOICE SHE ALMOST REMEMBERS
The strange sounds hadn't entirely disappeared.
Somewhere between the music and the static, Celeste began to recognize something.
Not a melody.
A voice.
That should have made things easier.
It didn't.
Because recognition and remembrance are not always the same thing.
Celeste Violet | I recognize the voice
Mickey Fingers | The Corridor Is Getting Longer
Mickey Fingers | A Invitation
Mickey Fingers & Gala Violet | A Prelude In Velvet (Instrumental) Masquerade Of Shadows
THE ANSWER
There are questions we ask aloud.
There are questions we never quite manage to say.
And sometimes, without realizing it, we answer something that nobody else has heard.
Celeste had been listening all afternoon.
Then she said two words.
Celeste Violet | Celeste Answers
“I'm coming.”
But to whom?
Mickey Fingers | The Door Was Open
The Music Box
THE MUSIC BOX
Five little notes.
A melody that seems to belong somewhere else.
We've heard it before.
We may hear it again.
The question is no longer whether the music box is playing.
The question is who's winding it.
THE DOOR WAS OPEN
And that, dear listeners, is where we're going to leave you.
For now.
If you're wondering what happened to Mickey and Celeste after the final record played, you're not alone.
Our next chapter, Velvet Umbrella Radio After Hours: The Rooms That Weren't There, follows a rather peculiar journey through a building that may not be a building at all.
And beyond that?
The Puppet Master's Tent.
Eight hours of music, impossible corridors, and more questions than any sensible person should have to answer.
Fortunately, nobody has ever accused us of being particularly sensible.
Follow the string.
Keep the music playing.
And do be careful which doors you open.
Your presence has been anticipated.
Show Art Will Link To Show Notes & Stories, Soon!
After Hours | THe Rooms THat Weren't There🕯️🖤 Friday overnight, 1–3 AM CT on WDRT 91.9 FM.
The radio station was supposed to be empty.
But the door was still open.
And someone had been expecting them.
Following Eclectic Wonderland: The Found Playlist, Mickey Fingers and Celeste Violet find themselves inside corridors that refuse to stay where they belong.
A dressing room bears their names.
An abandoned theater contains a program nobody remembers writing. Mirrors reflect people who aren't there.
And then comes the invitation.
October 25, 1883.
October 25, 2026.
143 years.
Someone has remembered an anniversary.
Someone has been keeping track.
Join us for gothic rock, dark alternative, theatrical oddities, and a radio mystery where memory, imagination, and reality begin to overlap.
ROCKTOBERRR Week 3 | Part 2 of 4 |
The story continues in The Puppet Master's Tent, an eight-hour musical journey.
Explore the complete adventure at VelvetUmbrellaRadio.com.
The music box is playing. Who's winding it?
The Puppet Master's Tent | Part 1: The Corridors Within
Velvet Umbrella Radio | Petals & Hooks ROCKTOBERRR 2026 • Week 3 • Part 3 of 4
The invitation has been delivered.
The music box has begun to play.
Your presence has been anticipated.
Following Eclectic Wonderland: The Found Playlist and After Hours: The Rooms That Weren't There, Mickey Fingers invites you deeper into the mystery.
Welcome to The Puppet Master's Tent.
This is no ordinary circus tent. Its corridors stretch beyond reason. Its rooms remember things you haven't told them. Behind the velvet curtains, familiar melodies become something else entirely.
There are no clocks here. No reliable maps. And perhaps no distinction between the stories we create and the memories we inherit.
Part 1 begins an immersive, four-hour journey through dark ambient soundscapes, gothic rock, ethereal voices, haunting instrumentals, and the extraordinary spaces between songs.
Listen closely to Mickey's transmissions.
Follow the music.
And should you find yourself remembering something that hasn't
happened yet, perhaps it's best not to mention it.
The Puppet Master welcomes you.
Some doors lead somewhere. Others lead to something you almost remember.
Continue into The Puppet Master's Tent | Part 2, the conclusion of our eight-hour journey.
Explore the complete ROCKTOBERRR story, companion artwork, artifacts, and earlier chapters at VelvetUmbrellaRadio.com.
Your presence has been anticipated.
Dark Ambient • Gothic Rock • Ethereal Wave • Darkwave • Experimental • Post-Rock • Drone • Cinematic Ambient • Trip-Hop • Gothic Storytelling
(Part 2)
The Puppet Master’s Tent | Part 2: The Performance Continues
Velvet Umbrella Radio | Petals & Hooks
ROCKTOBERRR 2026 • Week 3 • Part 4 of 4
You’re still here.
How interesting.
The corridors have grown quieter. The clocks have disappeared. The familiar rooms no longer look quite the way you remember them.
And somewhere, beyond the curtains, a music box continues to play.
Welcome to The Puppet Master’s Tent | Part 2, the final four hours of our eight-hour journey.
Mickey Fingers guides us through a shifting landscape of dark ambient, gothic, experimental, drone, post-rock, and cinematic soundscapes.
Time behaves strangely here.
Memories surface without explanation.
The deeper you travel, the less certain you become about whether you’re exploring the tent or whether the tent has been exploring you.
But beneath the unease, another possibility begins to emerge.
What if not everything waiting behind these doors is something to fear?
What if someone has simply remembered?
143 years.
An invitation.
A photograph.
A promise.
And a gentleman who has apparently never forgotten.
The story belongs to the listener. Some will hear a nightmare. Others may discover something tender and impossibly enduring.
We won’t tell you which interpretation is correct.
Listen to the transmissions. Follow the thread. And remember that not every ending means the performance is over.
Discover the earlier chapters of ROCKTOBERRR, including The Found Playlist, The Rooms That Weren’t There, and Masquerade of Shadows, at VelvetUmbrellaRadio.com.
The performance continues.
She need only remember.
Dark Ambient • Drone • Experimental • Gothic Rock • Darkwave • Ethereal Wave • Post-Rock • Neoclassical • Cinematic Soundscapes • Gothic Storytelling
The music stops. The story doesn’t. If you’ve noticed something strange along the way, you’re not imagining it. Follow the thread.
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From the Vault of Forgotten Warnings:
Don’t Trip on Your Sheet, Tommy.
Keeping the dead alive since 1957.
Velvet Umbrella Radio Page....
🎬 This Week’s Promo Video
The Listening Room: Playlist + Mickey’s Moments
The House Has Started Decorating Itself | RockToberrr Part 2 | Eclectic Wonderland
THE FOUND PLAYLIST
ROCKTOBERRR 2026 | Week 3 | Part 1 of 4
House of Mirrors (Reconstructed Endless Maze Mix) — Simon Shackleton
Celeste Violet – There Wasn't A Door There Yesterday — Mickey Fingers & Gala Violet
The Ghost in You — The Psychedelic Furs
Mickey Fingers | The Handwriting
Turn the Lights Off — Tally Hall
Celeste Violet – Something In The Music — Mickey Fingers & Gala Violet
Something in My House — Dead or Alive
Mickey Fingers | The People In the Photograph
Celeste Violet – Wait, Mickey...Let Me See That — Mickey Fingers & Gala Violet
The Killing Moon — Echo & The Bunnymen
Mickey Fingers | Two Places At Once
Two Places at Once — The Church
Mickey Fingers | The Records Know Something
Too Many Mirrors (Instrumental) — Mickey Fingers & Gala Violet [From Masquerade Of Shadows]
☕ Dimension 5 Snack Drop: Slow Cooker Pumpkin Spice Syrup with real pumpkin, maple syrup, vanilla, and warm fall spices. Add it to coffee, breakfast, or anything suffering from insufficient autumn.
Part 2
Little Ghost — The White Stripes
Love Will Tear Us Apart — Evelyn Evelyn
Mickey Fingers | The Entry I Haven't Written
Celeste Violet – I Recognize The Voice — Mickey Fingers & Gala Violet
Haunted When the Minutes Drag (USA Edit) — Love and Rockets
A Forest — The Cure
Spellbound — Siouxsie & The Banshees
Mickey Fingers | The Corridor Is Getting Longer
Lullaby — The Cure
The Music Box — Mickey Fingers & Gala Violet (Masquerade Of Shadows)
Evil Night Together — Jill Tracy
Mickey Fingers | An Invitation
Cry Little Sister (Theme from The Lost Boys) — Gerard McMann
Dead Souls — Nine Inch Nails
Prelude in Velvet (Instrumental) — Mickey Fingers & Gala Violet [Masquerade Of Shadows]
Celeste Violet | Celeste Answers
Mickey Fingers | The Door Was Open
The Music Box — Mickey Fingers & Gala Violet (Masquerade Of Shadows)
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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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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.
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From The Vault:
September Newsletter:
Thank you for being here.
Whether you laughed…
remembered someone…
or just let the weirdness carry you for a while…
We're really glad you showed up.
Thank you for Listening
Peace, Love & Cosmic Bunny Rabbits!
-DJ Tea, Mr Announcer Man, Dewey Lewis
& Mickey Fingers
People We Blame For This....
Art Direction & Visual Design:
Celeste Violet | DJ Tea
Mickey Fingers
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
Eclectic Wonderland is an independent radio show hosted by DJ Tea, Mr. Announcer Man, and Mickey Fingers on WDRT 91.9 FM in Viroqua, Wisconsin. Each week features carefully curated playlists, original narration, artwork, stories, and musical discoveries spanning indie, dream pop, shoegaze, post-punk, electronic, alternative, folk, experimental music, and college radio favorites. Continue the journey with Velvet Umbrella Radio | After Hours and Petals & Hooks, where the music wanders even farther after dark.
Returned: Heaven or Las Vegas Condition: Slightly tear-stained.
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