THE BIG UPDATE!

HELLO KELLY NATION!

We have hibernating for a long time!
And I apologize for the lack of journal updates, video blogs and even the simplest of things, updating the shows on our website!

Sigh. We've been busy!

Here's a bit of a rundown of what the heck I'm gonna shoot your way in this update!

1. The Tour
2. The Show
3. The MySpace
4. The New Song

1. The "East Meets West Tour"

We're going on tour again!
Hello Kelly has never been out to western Canada, but that will have changed in a month. On Saturday, we pile into the van for The East Meets West Tour. We'll drive around the Great Lakes, start in Steinbach, MB and end up in Vancouver, BC.
All of the dates are now posted on both www.hellokellyonline.com and www.myspace.com/hellokelly

Some of the details for the shows aren't posted yet. We'll have those up for you very soon, so no worries!

If you live out in Western Canada, we're REALLY looking forward to hanging out with you!

Also, if we don't have a show in your city, it's not too late! We're still trying to book some dates on our drive home from May 22nd to June 5th. And we'll be driving through anyway, so we'll probably be able to give you a great deal! If you're interested, get in touch at mail@hellokellyonline.com

2. The Show

Since January, we've been working with some trusted friends to make sure our show in 2009 is totally up to par with what you've come to expect from Hello Kelly and THEN SOME! In March, we tinkered with our new show on the Intensity in TEN Cities Tour with To Tell. Now, we're feeling super confident about it.

My brothers Adam and Jacob (their twins) are helping us out on bass and drums (respectively) for the rest of this year, and it's been a lot of fun on the road so far! We've added some new songs into the set AND brought back some older songs.

Even if you can't catch the East Meets West tour, we're booking up the summer in Ontario, PLUS we'll be playing a couple show in the north-east USA.

3. The MySpace

Tom from MySpace recently made it possible for every band to upload more songs. So we went for it!
I put up Thinking Positive and Favourite Arcade from our current record, and also The Perfect Place and Cavalry from our old record - because we've been getting tons of requests to post those.

Also ... I posted a demo of a song I wrote in Nashville with my friend Adam Smith. It's called Your Name in Vain. This song is REALLY important to me. I wanted to share a bit of the story.

4. The New Song

When I was in Nashville writing songs for the current record, our label had me writing with a bunch of different professional songwriters. Some of them (like Adam) were AWESOME. But some other ones weren't so great. They'd push me to add "Jesus" in a song just to make it climb the charts and earn us money.

That kinda rubbed me the wrong way, you know? Yes, I'm a Christian and I want to live in a way that shows people that I take my beliefs VERY seriously - but that doesn't mean every single song I write is going to be about Jesus, you know? I experience a bunch of different kinds of things in life, so I like to write about those too! :)

So in a writing session with Adam Smith (the writer I like), I was telling him about all this. I asked him: "If we were to put Jesus into EVERY SINGLE SONG WE WRITE, do you think God would be honoured by that ... or is it just using His name in vain?"

And we both kinda looked at each other and decided to write a song about it. Ha ha ha.

So, I hope you like it. It IS a bit more focused on faith and God than a lot of our other songs, but I hope that's cool with you cause it really comes from my heart!

Thanks so much for reading, everybody!!

francy