May 20th
KEITH

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May 19th
RYAN
(reposted from Ryan Kelly forum)

Hi Everyone!

Thought I'd drop in and say "hello". As some of you may have heard I decided to spend a few days extra in Vancouver and New York before I came back home. It meant flying out of Vancouver on Sunday morning. This was great as it gave me a few days to explore what I had been told was a beautiful city - and I certainly wasn't disappointed. It truly is stunning.

However, the journey to New York wasn't quite as inspiring!! I had to fly to New York via Denver, which, although a bit of a hassle, wasn't totally awful. Well, not obviously until the kind people at the airline decided to cancel my flight to Newark....for no apparent reason! Cue a few hours of panic and desperation as I tried to work out how I was gonna walk with 3 cases from Colorado to New York when lo and behold, I was able to squeeze onto another flight to Laguardia airport instead. As great as this was, my cases decided they'd rather stay in Denver and check out the city for a day and catch up with me on Monday afternoon instead. Which meant I had to purchase some emergency clothing on Sunday night in any shop I could find open in NYC. Let's just say, most of that "temporary wardrobe" hasn't made it to the Emerald Isle!!

In saying all this, New York was great though. I got to meet up with a few friends and even caught a couple of Broadway shows - Chicago and The Lion King - which were pretty spectacular and, of course, get a couple of my obligatory runs through Central Park - I love the place!!

I flew home from NYC on Weds night and arrived straight from the airport on Thursday morning to the studio, where Phil was busy getting the new tracks laid down for the forthcoming CD with George and Dave Cooke. Keith had been in the day before and Damian was due that evening, with Paul coming later in the week - the "Celtic Thunder Production Belt" was in full force!!! The tracks are obviously the new tracks we performed on the Spring Tour, plus a few extra surprises which I'm sure you'll enjoy hearing! I'm not gonna give too much away, but there's a new track in there that Phil has written for me which, from the first time I heard it, I can't get out of my head - which is always a good sign!!

So now I'm finally home and get to recharge the batteries for a little while. Some of the lads are planning holidays or are actually away already. I've nothing planned yet, I'll see what the schedule is first, but may get away later on in the summer. In the meantime, I'm trying to get my bodyclock back to Irish time - which isn't easy! Plus, my beloved Celtics have given up their crown, so there's no need for me to be staying up to the small hours of the morning to follow their progress. Ah well, maybe next year again when KG comes back. I think LeBron and the Cavs look pretty unstoppable this year anyways and deserve a shot at the title.

For the summer now I'll be working away on my own stuff in the meantime. It's good to be able to sit down with the guitar again and get writing a bit more. It's one of the things I miss on tour because we're kept so busy with everything else.

As I always sign off these updates or "blogs" I suppose I can call them now, again I want to thank you all for your continued support. I do feel that, by every show and every day, we're gaining more and more fans and a lot of this credit must go to you all - the Street Teams Leaders, the bloggers and anyone really who even does so much as introduce a friend, a work colleague, a neighbour - even someone you don't like!! - to our music and our show. You are helping us grow. And, especially in these challenging economic times, we need this support to keep our show getting bigger and better so that we can be on the road - together with you all - for a long time to come.

Thanks for making the tour again so special and don't worry, I'll keep you all updated as to how things are going, how the new show is taking shape and what we're all up to when we're not across the water!

Take care for now,

Ryan x