Hello, Chasers everywhere!
It's great to be home. There's no place like it. I speak for the rest of the guys when I say THANK YOU for the support and encouragement you've shown us already this year. The best is yet to come...
How was Canada, you may be wondering. Our northern neighbors were amazing and showed us the warmest of hospitality. The country itself was beautiful, with its pristine mountain peaks towering above our bus, which, for the record, was mostly full of boots, scarves, and beards. What I'm dancing around is this: the weather was brutal. I know, I know, I haven't felt -72 like everyone from Calgary or Edmonton or Saskatoon, but I know when my mustache freezes. To our Canadian Chasers reading this, your country is lovely and we look forward to coming back soon (perhaps when the temperature is above freezing - ha!). Thanks for showing your support of our music.
A special thanks go out to the lovely folks in Alliston, ON who brought us the maple leaf mittens and Tim Horton's gift cards (scarves, too). My wife recently wore the mittens to shovel our driveway while I was in the UK and she marveled at how warm they were (and how that chore is my responsibility next time). Also, thank you to everyone who sponsored with World Vision during our intermissions or after the shows to support children in need worldwide. With your help, over 40 children were sponsored! We may never meet any of them, but your generosity will be felt indeed by those who truly need it. It was an honor to partner with World Vision for our tour and we look forward to doing so again in the future.
From Vancouver (our last stop of the Canadian tour), we spent about 36 hours at home and flew across the pond to London, where we spent six days promoting the UK release of "With A Twist." We were guests on the BBC Breakfast TV & This Morning programs (which helped me get through customs at Heathrow; apparently the gentleman thought I was much more of a VIP than I am when I told him why I was visiting England because he sat up, raised his eyebrows with an unintelligible affirmation of support, stamped my passport, and wished me a "Cheerio then, mate, fank you and good luck indeed, alright?"). We also spent time doing some press interviews with the "papes" and a spot on the Radio 2 (Sunday morning) program with a Welshman named Aled Jones. Aled made us feel at home and I will always recall him singing along with all of us over "Sir Duke" by Stevie Wonder before our interview. That song is sick.
Brits are some of the nicest people in the world (along with Canadians, of course). Everything is lovely this, brilliant that, lads here, darlings there. I tried my share of accents on our trip (much to the annoyance of everyone around me) and was told by a young lady at a pub that I sounded Australian or Cockney, she couldn't tell. I probably sounded like a moron, but then again, her impression of American accents was that we sound either like the cast of Fried Green Tomatoes or Snooki. My assessment of British accents is another blog entirely, though. I digress.
We also took advantage of the downtime while in London to do a photo shoot for some new promotional pictures for Atlantic City and (I think) the website. Two words: bow ties. Undone. OK, that was three words, but still. We felt like James Bonds in shiny suits minus the sports cars, martinis, and Halle Berry walking out of the ocean. We should be reviewing the shots soon, so stay tuned.
I gotta go make dinner so I'll close with another THANK YOU to everyone in Canada and the UK who showed us support over the past month. Good things are in store ahead. We appreciate you spreading the word about our music. Until next time, cheerio, eh? (See what I did there...)
Ryan
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