There is no sound between stars | After Hours | Part 2 of 2
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There is no sound between stars | After HOurs | Part 2 of 2
September 19, 2026
with Mickey Fingers & Celeste Violet
1–3am CST on WDRT 91.9FM | Listen Live »
By Mickey Fingers & Celeste Violet
✨ Velvet Umrealla Radio | After Hours | Mickey Fingers & Celeste Violet
There is no sound between stars
Something changed after Wednesday.
The signal got quieter.
Not gone.
Just farther away.
The jokes thinned out. The static stretched. The whole thing started to feel less like interference and more like distance.
So Friday night, Mickey and I followed it.
Into dream-pop, darkwave, shoegaze, post-punk, memory, silence, and the strange feeling that something can be very far away and still somehow reach you.
This is There Is No Sound Between Stars.
And somewhere inside it, the signal from Wednesday is still moving.
First Contact Part 1 & 2 | WE Apologize For The Tractor Beam....
There was just one problem.
The signal was no longer arriving in the correct order.
At first, nobody noticed.
A tone appeared a little early.
An answer seemed to arrive before anyone remembered asking the question.
A transmission referenced something that technically had not happened yet.
Small things.
Perfectly reasonable things to ignore when your radio station is already being investigated by extraterrestrials.
Then we looked at the timeline.
And the timeline looked back.
Because somewhere ahead of us was another transmission.
One we had already heard.
In it, the visitors had returned.
They had learned a few things.
They had apparently developed opinions.
And somehow...
they had even helped with the WDRT pledge drive.
Which begins tomorrow.
There was only one reasonable conclusion.
Next week had already happened.
Or this week happened later.
Or both.
At this point, we have stopped asking the calendar for assistance.
So before we open the next transmission file, there is something Mickey should probably explain.
NEXT WEEK Part 2 of 2 First Contact | Extraterrestrial Encore
Apparently the sequel arrived first.
The signal had already been responding.
Then it did something worse.
It called.
Not through a normal phone line.
Not through anything engineering wanted to admit was connected to
anything.
But the line rang anyway.
Three tones.
A pause.
Then more tones.
Then something that sounded suspiciously like somebody trying to figure out how a request line works.
Which is, frankly, a little rude.
Because if the extraterrestrials can figure out how to call the station, so can you.
And this week, that matters.
WDRT’s Sweet 16 pledge drive is here.
And if you’re reading this after the big day, you can still support the station anytime.
If you’re listening live, call in.
If you’re reading later, click the pledge banner below.
Either way, help keep strange little independent radio alive.
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Wednesday's Show: We apologize for the tractor beam
WHERE IT STARTED
If you came here first, Wednesday is the beginning.
Or maybe it isn’t.
Time has been acting weird.
We Apologize for the Tractor Beam is the daytime transmission where the signal first attached itself to Eclectic Wonderland, the timeline started slipping, and things got considerably less explainable.
Click the show art to go back to Part One.
Listen To Original Transmission
Click Here for Video Playlist for Keep Scrolling
Psst...
There’s a recipe hiding nearby.
Gluten-Free Brownies
Velvet Umbrella Radio Page....
🎬 This Week’s Promo Video
The Listening Room: Playlist + Mickey’s Moments
There is no sound between stars
The Signal Leaves Earth
Beach House – Space Song
Warpaint – Stars
Cults – Gilded Lily
Cocteau Twins – Heaven or Las Vegas
Distance Begins to Change Shape
Slowdive – Sugar for the Pill
Chromatics – Shadow
Still Corners – The Trip
Julee Cruise – Falling
This Mortal Coil – Song to the Siren
The Temperature Drops
Drab Majesty – Ellipsis
Black Marble – Iron Lung
Tempers – Strange Harvest (Acoustic)
🍫 Dimension 5 Snack Drop: Rich, fudgy gluten-free brownies made with almond flour, cacao, coconut sugar, and chocolate chips. Mickey has officially classified chocolate as morale-support equipment. Part 2
Linea Aspera – Synapse
All India Radio – Four Three
Into Deep Water
The Cure – The Same Deep Water as You
Peter Murphy – Strange Kind of Love
Kilbey Kennedy – Stretch Into the Stars
Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd – Sea, Swallow Me
What Still Reaches Us
This Mortal Coil – Another Day
Still Corners – Black Lagoon
Chromatics – The Page
Slowdive – Slomo
The Signal Finds Shore
Beach House – On the Sea
Velvet Umbrella Radio
Who Keeps Doing This?
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.
[Click The Art Above To Visit Our Home Page]
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.
🌐 More doors: VelvetUmbrellaRadio.com
📻 WDRT Archive (available for two weeks): wdrt.org
🌒 After Hours (unfiltered transmissions):[Mixcloud Link]
New Contact Pages & Bio Portals
Celeste Violet | DJ Tea
Mr Announcer Man
Mickey Fingers
From The Vault:
April Newsletter:
🌊 Continue the Story…
If you didn’t mean to leave just yet, Petals & Hooks is waiting just beyond the next door.
No rush.
Stay as long as you need.
Thank you for listening 💋
Stay Connected
Follow along, say hello, and join us as we continue building strange little worlds together.
Mickey Fingers
Celeste Violet
🦇 Stay with us… or come back when the lights go out.
Velvet Umbrella Radio | After Hours airs Friday overnights from 1–3 AM Central on WDRT 91.9 FM in Viroqua, Wisconsin, hosted by Mickey Fingers and Celeste Violet.
Produced by DJ Celeste and Mickey Fingers for the Eclectic Wonderland universe.
The Folks We Blame For This…
Creative Direction & Visual Worldbuilding
Celeste Violet | DJ Tea | Mickey Fingers
Music Curation & Programming
Celeste Violet | DJ Tea | Mickey Fingers
Original Voice Overs & Incidental Music
Mickey Fingers
Writing, Storyworld & Show Notes
Celeste Violet | DJ Tea
Mickey Fingers
Video Production & Editing
Celeste Violet
Audio Production & Sound Engineering
Mickey Fingers
Celeste Violet
Featuring
Eclectic Wonderland
DJ Tea | Celeste Violet
Mr. Announcer Man
Mickey Fingers
Velvet Umbrella Radio
After Hours
Celeste Violet
Mickey Fingers
Petals & Hooks
Celeste Violet
Mickey Fingers
Special Thanks
To every independent artist who trusted us with their music.
To every listener who wandered in.
To every spoonie who reminds us that creating is an act of hope.
And to the wonderfully strange little community that continues to make this world feel like home.
💜
"Every place worth returning to was once built one small kindness at a time."-Mickey
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