Artist: Miniature Submarines

Back home and once again from south of the border. This track comes from Mark Nelson and his better half Monika Fikerle ( love of diagrams ) on drums to form Miniature Submarines . Breaking away from his better known position as bass player for the stabs to release a debut 72 on the local rice is nice label. The A-side gives us 'The little room under the stairs' which develops a dark, narrow path of lyrics "I'm having trouble getting out of bed... I've been feeling pretty ordinary". It doesn't dare to lift off [...]

• Miniature Submarines - The Little Room Under The Stairs

As the The Stabs ' bassist, Mark Nelson is making some serious lo-fi grunge music with Monika Fikerle (from Love of Diagrams and Baseball ) as Miniature Submarines . Photo: Source They're just about to release a 7" that contains the b-side "I Heard That You Turned Into a Loser, Baby" and they may just be our answer to Sonic Youth complete with heavy feedback, fuzzy distortion and Nelson's soft vocals. You might think that [...]

• The Little Room Under the Stairs » 01 The Little Room Under the Stairs.mp3

PICTURE TO COME Northcote Social Club 30th September 2009 $35??? Miniature Submarines Panel of Judges Vivian Girls To tell you the truth I nearly forgot about this gig, and just realized I hadn't posted anything on it, as I really use this site to document gig I see in Melbourne. I didn't get to see Miniature Submarines(from Melbourne) so no comments on them, did see Panel of Judges but they did not hold my interested and left to talk to [...]