Westlife World Column
Sunday World Newspaper Sunday 30 July 2000
Shane comes home to horse around
Hi Shane here,
THIS week I finally got the chance to play with my 21st birthday present -
Carlton the horse!
Westlife got a few unexpected days off from work on our new album in Sweden,
so we all headed home.
I arrived in to Sligo during the early hours of Friday morning, so the
weekend has been spent with Carlton.
He's my pride and joy. Carlton, son of Clover Hill, is a big bay gelding and
my mam and dad gave him to me a pressie.
Unfortunately, due to all my travels with Westlife, I don't get the chance
to spend that much time with him. But he is going to be broken in and
trained as a show jumper and my brother will be riding him in the shows.
It's been great to get back home for a visit as it will be a while before
that happens again. We're off to South America on Wednesday to do more
promotion over there.
Wild
That's a territory we're really looking forward to visiting as the fans go
absolutely wild. It's the same reaction we get in Asia where they're all
really enthusiastic.
Then it'll be back into the studio to continue work on the album. Work
that's going really well. We have written about 20 songs and we hope to get
10 really good ones from those. If some of them make it on to the album
we'll be delighted, but it's not a main priority.
We're also getting fantastic songs from other producers and fans are going
to be really surprised.
The producers we're working with in Stockholm are the same guys who were
responsible for eight songs on our last album, as well as the singles If I
Let You Go and Fool Again. The step up from the last album is amazing, so we
hope you like it when it eventually hits the shops.
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