LAB's Lost On Campus gets back out onto the road from 1st April with Eat.Sleep.Attack. - the new acoustic project of former Fleeing From Finales frontman Sam Little.

We are currently taking bookings for the talented pair of singer/songwriters - who are happy to play on most bills, including house shows.

For more details or to register your interest, please e-mail: info@labrecords.co.uk.

LOC also plays two shows with InMe's Dave McPherson in March - visit our tour ticker for more details.

MiMi Soya have been named as one of the bands to watch next year by webzine AlterThePress.com.

The preview of the year, which also features such high profile names as Taking Back Sunday and Brand New, predicts that the group "will continue to establish themselves as one of the top rising UK bands."

Read the article in full here.

Those hardworking folk in MiMi Soya kick off 2009 on the road with Londoners We Have A Getaway, starting this Friday, 2 January.

The full dates are as follows:

MIMI SOYA/WE HAVE A GETAWAY JANUARY SHOWS:

2 JANUARY 2009 - KINGSTON, PEEL
(With 8th Time Luckie & A Major Motion Picture)

3 JANUARY 2009 - CAMBRIDGE, MAN ON THE MOON
(With Ascendia & Flick 66)

4 JANUARY 2009 - BRIGHTON, ENGINE ROOMS
(With Be My Guest)

5 JANUARY 2009 - NORTHAMPTON, RACECOURSE
(With A Major Motion Picture & My Only Chance)

6 JANUARY 2009 - LEICESTER, SHED

Are you on Facebook? Help promote the shows by inviting your friends on the tour Event Page. Otherwise, see you on the road - please come and collect a free LAB 2009 Sampler from the merch desk.

MiMi already have a number of shows confirmed for February, too, see full details on our tour ticker.

The band released 'The Four Penny Knee Trembler' EP in June - and it is available through both the LABStore and iTunes. New track 'Don't Stand On Ceremony' also features on our 2009 Preview Sampler.

One of the more criminally overlooked profiles we have online is on the music networking site LastFM.

Visit the LAB Records Profile to read more about our label, our bands and our releases - as well as being able to stream (and in some cases download) full tracks.

Perhaps the best feature, however, is the ability to study the listening habits of all Last.fm users who play LAB bands. Who listens to Lost On Campus and then ACDC? Who follows some MiMi Soya with a little Journey? Check it out!

On behalf of all the staff and bands connected with LAB Records I'd like to wish you a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

The start of 2009 will see another complete overhaul of our Official Website and MySpace Profile, as well as new releases from The Auteur and The Honeymoon Suite.

You can read our review of 2008 further down this page or in this blog.

Don't forget to spend any excess Christmas cash in the LABStore - we continue to ship orders through Christmas and New Year - whilst for instant delivery, MiMi Soya, Lost On Campus and My Actions Your Exit all have releases available on iTunes.

Hope to see plenty of you on the road at the start of January for the MiMi/We Have A Getaway tour - full dates are available on our Tour Ticker.

You can stream a brand new MiMi Soya track, entitled 'Rotten Boys,' right now on their MySpace.

The song was produced by another member of the LAB family - Joolz Bowen - who also drums in The Auteur.

Catch the guys and girl on tour at the start of 2009 - as they play five shows with Londoners We Have A Getaway from 2 January.

You can still pick up the band's June 2008 release, The Four Penny Knee Trembler EP, through the LABStore and iTunes. Another new track, 'Don't Stand On Ceremony,' also features on our 2009 Preview Sampler.

So here it is - the end of a long but fulfilling year, and this is what influenced us and our bands musically during it. No guilty pleasures, no red faces, just what got the most spins!

Terribly mad at someone’s opinion? Want to let a band member know that they’re your perfect boy? E-mail info@labrecords.co.uk and vent.

Joolz Bowen - Drums in The Auteur:
Releases:
1. The Bronx - The Bronx III
2. Weezer - Weezer (Red Album)
3. Smashing Pumpkins - American Gothic EP
4. Conor Oberst - Self-Titled
5. Frank Turner - Love, Ire And Song

Tips for 2009:
1. Lights & Sounds
2. Data Select Party
3. You Had Your Fun, Now Fuck Off

Buy one of the records of LAST year, The Auteur’s ‘Demos 2007’ EP, as well as their ‘Logo’ T-Shirt, in the LABStore.

Chris Nairn - Guitars in MiMi Soya:
Releases:
1. Four Year Strong - Rise or Die Trying
2. Forever the Sickest Kids - The Underdog Alma Mater
3. Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
4. Paige - If You Say So
5. White Snake - Good To Be Bad

Tips for 2009:
1. Tonight Is Goodbye
2. Paige
3. The Getaway Team

Buy one record that would be on everyone’s list if we allowed LAB bands - MiMi Soya’s ‘The Four Penny Knee Trembler’ EP - in the LABStore.

Rob Lynch - Everything in Lost On Campus:
Releases:
1. Lydia - Illuminate
2. City and Colour - Bring Me Your Love
3. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
4. Jack's Mannequin - The Glass Passenger
5. Sigur Ros - mea sua i eyrum via spilum endalaust and Portman - From Here To Your Eyes and Ears

Tips for 2009:
1. The Auteur
2. A Broken Robot
3. Scott McEwan and The Candle Thieves

Another record that sounds as fresh now as when it was released in 2007, Rob’s ‘...Tell Them I Had A Wonderful Life’ EP, is still available through the LABStore.

David ‘Macky’ McKinlay, LAB Recs Web Design and other fancy-looking things:
Releases:
1. Norma Jean - The Anti Mother
2. Valencia - We All Need A Reason To Believe
3. Azriel - A Will Of Fire
4. Every Time I Die - The Big Dirty
5. The Streets - Everything Is Borrowed

Tips for 2009:
1. You Me At Six
2. Architects
3. Yashin

Mark Orr, LAB Recs ‘Boss’
Releases:
1. Anberlin - New Surrender
2. Cut The Blue Wire - Revert, Restart, Reset
3. Fall Out Boy - Folie A Deux
4. Lydia - Illuminate
5. Lost On Landing - Take Your Time

Tips for 2009:
1. Data Select Party
2. Kill The Arcade
3. Tubelord

Nathen McVittie, LAB Recs American Correspondent:
Releases:
1. More Amor - More Amor
2. The Morning Of - The World As We Know It
3. Lydia - Illuminate
4. John Mayer - Where The Light Is
5. Confide - Shout The Truth

Tips for 2009:
1. More Amor
2. All Get Out
3. The Morning Of

That’s just about it from us this year - thanks again for all your support and see you refreshed, eager and excitable in 2009. Have a great Christmas!

The new Lost On Campus single, 'But A Bridge,' is out now through all good digital retailers.

You can pick up the song from iTunes worldwide and Amazon MP3 - both in the UK and the USA, for 79p or less.

The beautifully infectious track is taken from the singer/songwriter's new EP, scheduled to be out through LAB before Summer 2009.

You can stream the song now through the LOC MySpace, where you can also view the video for previous single 'Oh No!'

The six-track '...Tell Them I Had A Wonderful Life' EP is still available through both the LABStore and iTunes.

The Honeymoon Suite close out the year with two Manchester shows this week.

On Wednesday (17 December), they play the Pop Bubble Rock Christmas Party at Moho Live, alongside Furthest Drive Home and Twin Atlantic. Doors are 8pm and advance tickets are available for £5 from WeGotTickets.com.

Then on Sunday (21 December) they play a headline show at the Retro Bar alongside Drive Like I Do and The Night Life Crisis. Doors for this show are 4pm and it's £4.

The guys release their new three-track EP 'Calm Your Little Passions' through LAB in March next year - and you can currently download their 2006 release 'Matrimony' for free through RapidShare and MediaFire.

LAB's The Honeymoon Suite have made their debut five-track EP, Matrimony, available for free download.

Originally released in 2006, you can pick up the tracks through RapidShare and MediaFire.

The final few physical copies of the record are available now as part of our seven CD Christmas Stocking at the LABStore.

The Manchester five-piece enter Outhouse Studio to record their new three-track, Calm Your Little Passions, next month. It is scheduled for a March 2009 release.