Shane Filan's thank yous

Westlife
This is one of the proudest moments of my life, sitting down to write my thank you’s for our first album. I’d like to start off by thanking my Mum and Dad for their constant love and guidance, you mean the world to me, I love you dearly. To my three big brothers Finbarr, Peter and Liam, you kept trouble away from me when I was growing up and I’m proud to say I’m your brother. To my three beautiful sisters Yvonne, Denise and Mairead, what can I say, you’ve always been there for me, thank you, I love you so much.
Thanks to our management team, Louis Walsh and Ronan Keating. Louis, thank you for giving me the chance of a lifetime and fulfilling my dreams. Ronan, for all your advice and encouragement and most of all for being a good friend. Big thanks to Anto, our Tour Manager, for looking after me, you’re the best.
To my best friends Paul, Keith, Brig and Graham thanks for being true friends, you’ve never changed. To my four bandmates Kian, Bryan, Mark and Nicky it’s been an unbelieveble year and the best laugh. It’s only the beginning, cheers lads, I love you. To Simon Cowell, thank you for believing in us, we could not have done it without you.
I would like to end now, by saying thank you to the person who bouht this album and everyone who as supported Westlife all over the world, this album is made for you. To everyone in my hometown, Sligo, thanks a million for all your support and to anybody I forgot, sorry and thank you.;
Love,

Shane

Coast to Coast
Here we are on the second album. Once again I would like to start by thanking my family. Mum and Dad thank you so much for your love and guidance, you mean the world to me. I love you. To Finbarr, Peter, Liam, Yvonne, Denise and Mairead, you have all supported me, looked out for me and loved me. Thanks a million.
To Louis Walsh our manager. Thank you for working so hard for us behind the scenes. You make it all happen, sir. Well done. To everyone at RCA, Arista and BMG Worldwide, especially our A&R Simon Cowell, thank you also for working so hard and for giving us the chance to succeed.
To my four bandmates, Nicky, Kian, Bryan and Mark thanks a lot lads, we’ve done it again and never thought we’d get this far. To Anto, our Daddy on the road. Anto, you’re a great friend, you’re not a bad Daddy, you work so hard for us and I’ll never forget that. Thank you. To Paul, our security. Thanks for all your hard work, Paul. You’re a legend. See you in the gym at 7.30 ya!!
To Ronan thank you for all your advice. To John Giddings, our agent, can I have a word!! Cheers John, you’re a good friend. To my best friends at home! Brig H, Graham K, Paul K, Keith M, Rory B and Barry C thanks for all the laughs and all your support lads, you’re still true friends. P.S. Graham thanks for keeping my feet on the ground and for looking after me at home.
And of course lastly the people that make it all possible, THE FANS. Thank you sooooo much, you are the reason we’re still here and still loving every minute. Anyone I forgot that has worked with us or helped us, sorry and thank you. See ya all soon!!

Love always, Shane xx

World Of Our Own
I can’t believe I’m writting my thank you’s for our third album already. The last 3 years have been the best years of my life. For the third time I’d like to start off by thanking my family. To Mum and Dad, I’m proud to be your son, I owe everything to you and I love you so much. To Finbarr, Liam, Peter, Yvonne, Denise and Mairead, thanks for being there for me and I know ye always will be. I love you all.
To Louis, the main man. I don’t know how you do it, but you do, you’re one in a million and a great friend. It’s a pleasure working with you and long may it last. Thank you very much SIR. To Simon Cowell, I think this one’s a smash.....! How do you always get it so right?!? Thank you so much for everything. To everyone at RCA and BMG Records Worldwide, especially Richard Griffiths, Sony Takhar, Dave Shack and Heather Metcalfe. Thank you for helping to make it all happen. I couldn’t ask for nicer people to work with.
To Anto, “What’s the craic like?!?” You’re the best in the world and we’re lucky to have you. Thanks a million buddy. To Paul, our security. Where are the toilets?Over... there?!? Thanks for looking after me, you’re still a legend and a true friend. A big thank you to our producers and writers Steve Mac, Wayne Hector, Chris&Graham, Andreas&Joseph, Per&David, Jörgen, Chris Laws, Steve Kipner&Andrew Frampton. To our agent John Giddings, thanks a million for all your hard work. To Steve Levett and Phay McMann cheers for everything.
To Ronan I appriciate everything you’ve done for us, thank you. To Ben thanks for all the great haircuts even though I still haven’t changed it!!!!To Dave, you’re a great stylist keep it up, thanks! Also our choreographers, Priscilla Samuels and Paula Barrett. Thanks a million! X
To all my friends, especially Keith, Brig, Rory and Paul. You never change. Thanks lads, ye keep me grounded. PS “Are we out tonight lads?”..... ahhh like Red Rats!! To Gillian, you’re my best friend and I love you. To Bryan, Mark, Kian and Nicky. What a great 3 years. You’re a great bunch of lads. PS Bryan more than anything I’ve enjoyed writing songs with you on this album and hopefully many more to come.
And lastly, the most important people I have to thank and the reason I am writing this, the fans. You’re always 100% loyal and I hope you enjoy this album because it’s made for you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. To anyone I forgot, sorry and thank you.

Love always,
Shane

Unbreakable
Hello again. Another year, another album, another set of thank you’s, but this time it’s different. These thank you’s are to celebrate our succees over the last 3 years. I’ll start once again by thanking my family. Thank you so much for all your love and support, it means so much to me. To Gillian, I love you so much baby and you mean the world to me.
To my Westlife brothers, what a great 3 years lads, let’s have another 3! To Louis, you’ve more confidence in me than I have in myself, I’ve so much to be greatful to you for. Thank you for making me who I am today. You’re a great manager but an even better friend, long may it last. To Anto, if there was an Oscar for the best Tour Manager in the world, you’d win it hands down! You’re one of my best friends and I’ve so much respect and gratitude for everything you’ve done over the last three years. To Paul and Dave, our security, sorry for all the late nights, maybe this year we’ll have a few early ones, but...maybe not! Thanks loads. To Ben, Tamara and Fi-Fi, is that Westlife in the bag there?!?!? Ha ha. Thanks guys, you’re all exellent at your jobs. To Keith and Brig, ye have no idea how much your frendship means to me, ye havan’t change and know ye never will, ye are me best mates! Ah-Da-Doo!
To Alan McEnvoy and all at Livewire. Thank you all for your honesty and hard work. To all our writers and producers, your name will already be on this album and other albums. Thank you for the world class songs. To Sony Takhar individually you’ve been outstanding threw your hard work, you’re a huge part of Westlife’s succees, we apriciate it more than you know. To all BMG Worldwide especially Hasse, Ged, Simon, Dave Shack, Jacqui, Sophie, Julie, Sarah V, Lorraine. Thank you for all your hard work and determination over the past 3 years.
To John Giddings, thanks for all the great tours, keep booking them!! Cheers John!To Ronan, your help and guidance at the start of the band made a huge difference, you’re a good and thank you. To Phay, Baz, Steve Levett, Grubby, Privet, Cara, our life musicians and all our touring crew, thank you and see you in April. To Rob and Biggy Trevor Payne our drivers, thank you. Alan Edwards, Paul Carey and David Reiss
To all the fans. In Ireland we have a saying called “Paddy last”, but I prefer the saying “Save the best for last” Ye are the reason I’m writing these thank you’s . Without your love and support none of this would be possible. Ye have made these songs the Greatest Hits and don’t worry, believe me there will definetly be more. I love each and every one of ye. Thank you infinitly.
To anyone I forgot, I’m very sorry and thank you.

Turnaround
Five albums five years...unbelievable! First thing is I'd like to say a huge thank you to my Mum and Dad, Brothers and Sisters and all my extended family for all their love and support over the last year for this album. To my wife to be, Gillian, I can't wait until the 28th of December. It will be the happiest day of our lives,I love you so much sweetheart.To Rosaleen and Michael and all the Walsh family, thanks for making me feel part of your family.To Louis Walsh, thanks for all your hard work and guidance over the last five years, each year it seems toget better. To everybody at S Records and BMG worldwide especially SimonCowell, Sonny, Ged, Dan, Sophie, Jacqui, Annette and Dave Shack.Thank you all for your hard work and dedication. To Steve Mac and Wayne
Hector thank you for your world-class songs,and Steve thank you for believing in me, you're a pleasure to work with and a good friend. To Chris and Dan, thankyou for your hard work, the laughs and the baked potatoes. To our team on the road: Jake Duncan, Dave Last, Gregg, Elliot and Ben Mohapi - thanks for making life easier for us every day.. not forgetting Paul Higgins a huge thank you for everything you'vedone for me, miss you so much and love you loads pal. To my two best buddies in the world Keith and Brig, our friendship means more to me than you can imagine.. thanks for always being there.
And P.S. are we out tonight??? To Alan and all at Livewire, thanks for all your advice and hard work. To Anita Kissane thank you very much, you're a genius! To Nicky, Kian, Mark and Bryan. We've been so successfull as a band because we stick together as friends and that's the most important thing. Love you all. And last but definitely not least as always to every single Westlife fan out there, your dedication and support is priceless, some of you are new and some have grown with us and together you make Westlife possible. Thank you all. See you soon. And for the fifth time if there's anybody I've forgotten I'm sorry and thank you.

Love Shane x

Face to Face
This time I'm going to start off by thanking the most important people of all: The Westlife fan, every year ye show your undying love and loyalty to Westlife and ye are the only reason why we make these albums. For the seventh time a million thank you's. To all my family, especially my Mam and Dad: Thanks for keeping me real and always being there for me no matter what... and Mam... thanks for all the bacon and cabbage dinners... I can't wait to get home for the next one! To all the Walsh family, I couldn't ask for better In-Laws and Michael, I couldn't ask for a better golf partner. To all my mates, especially Keith, Brig
and Paul, your friendship means the world to me and the nights out mean even more. Sorry love Robberrrd!! 'A Da Doo'. To Louis... you're always there for me when I need you. You're a great manager and a great friend. You believed in me from day one and I will never forget that. Thanks Louis. To everybody at Sony BMG and S Records, especially Simon Cowell, Sonny Takhar, Dan Parker, Jacqui Quaife, Dave Shack, Robin Wilson, Ben Karter, Nikki
Watkins, Ged Doherty and Rob Stringer. Thanks for all your hard work and for keeping the Westlife wheel turning. Here's to another great year. To our writers and producers, Steve Mac, Wayne Hector and all at Rokstone, thank you so much for once again excellent work Steve, you excel yourself every year, thanks mate. To all at The Location, it was a pleasure to work with ye and thanks for the great songs. To the people who made our tours possible: Caroline Downey, Dennis Desmond and all at MCD. Peter and Jim Aiken and all at Aiken promotions. Our agent John Giddings, Steve Levitt, all at Production North and our touring crew... Our band: Velroy, Andrew, Mark and Freddie. Karen and Jason Dantrum and Caroline. Thanks to you all for a great tour last year and hopefully an even bigger one this year. To Jake and Dave, you're both a pleasure to work with and you make the Westlife world a lot easier. To Alan McEvoy and all at Livewire, thank you. To Joanne Byrne and all at Presence PR. To Mark, Kian and Nicky. The time off was great lads, we'll try and organise some time off in another seven years. Here's to our best year yet, Cheers!

And finally... The most important people in my life - my beautiful girls. Gillian this year has been amazing and we are a family now. Nicole is number one in our family and it's the best number 1 I've had yet!! P.S Only 11 more to go... Haha! I love ye both so much and Nicole this album is for you. Hope you like it...

Love Daddy xx

The Love Album
To start us off…
We would like to dedicate this album to the most important people in our lives and thank them for their constant love and support in which they continue to give us day after day. So to all our Parents, Brothers, Sisters and to Georgina, Jodi, Kevin, Gillian, and little Nicole. Thank you. Without you we would not be able to continue “living the dream”.
We would also like to pay a particular and very special thank you to our outstanding manager Louis Walsh......... you have played an integral role in our career and have always shown unique ability to drive us forward, you constantly give us huge commitment and always made us believe we could be special while always being there through both the good and bad times.
To the man behind the music – Simon Cowell. You never cease to amaze us by your song choices and album ideas and for that we will always remain very grateful.
Another man who has devoted eight years to Westlife is Sonny Takhar. Sonny, you have always brought the ideas to reality and nobody could have done that better. Congratulations on your recent wedding.
Dan Parker, You are quickly creeping up that ladder with Simon and Sonny to guide you, you will do just fine! Thanks for the 24/7 work you do.
The production on these songs has been second to none. So to Steve Mac thanks for all your hard work, time and effort, you have never let us down. To Chris, Ren, Dan and all at Rokstone. Thank you.
To Andreas and Josef, once again it was a pleasure working with you and as well a great laugh.
To Per and David: Delta and Ourselves are delighted, what a result!
SONYBMG: We are proud to be with one of the biggest record labels in the world and from territory to territory, Westlife are growing bigger and better. So thank you to Rob Stringer, Ged Doherty, Tim Bowen, Jacqui Quaife, Sarah Vaughan, Annette Millar, Nirvana Chelvachandran, Ben Karter, Georgia Reeve, Abigail Williams, Leighton Woods, Mark Murphy, Alex Crass, Lynn Swindlehurst, Gary Hobson, Lee Morrison, Laura Henderson, Mike O’Keefe, Jackie Hyde, Hannah McMichael, Ali Barzilay, Roma Martynuik, Nicola Tuer, Jamii Layton, Steve Reeves, Jit Gondalia, Greg Lawton, Seb Weller, Matt Gibbon.
We would also like to say a big thank you to: Robin Wilson, Stylorouge, TBA Travel, Tourpro, James Barcham.
A special mention is reserved for all of our International Department. Especially Dave Shack, Paul Kindred and Co.
To all the staff in all the SonyBMG Offices globally that work so hard on us, there are too many to mention but you know who are you are. A big Thank you, see you all soon.
Our team on the road are definitely worth a thank you or two. So Dave Last (AKA Lasty!), Ben Cooke (AKA Cookie Monster), John Long (AKA Shorty), Soren (AKA we haven’t got one yet!) and William Baker and all at Never Trust A Stylist, Thank you.
A big thank you to our PR team: Alan Edwards, Stuart Bell and all at Outside Organisation.
Another special thank you to our Business Management Team: Alan McEvoy, Liam Murphy, and all the hardworking team at LIVEWIRE. With a big hug and kiss for Anita Kissane and all her time at PRICEWATER-HOUSE COOPERS. Our legal team who are currently helping to secure our future, Richard Bray and Nick Hart and all their staff at BRAY&KRAIS, Thank you.
As all of our fans know our live shows are something we thrive on and we have the best man in the business to put it all together. To Steve Levitt you are a great friend and your team including Karen, Jason and Mill are all a joy to work with.
To Priscilla Samuels and Paula Barratt, Cheers! “We got to do what we do”! and thanks to Nicki Cheeseman. Our agent has always come up trumps so to John Giddings and all at Solo thank you.
Our three lead promoters, Caroline Downey & Dennis Desmond at MCD, Jim & Peter Aiken at AIKEN Promotions, Barry Clayman at CLEARCHANNEL, THANK YOU. Mick, Rita, Shane and all the Devine Family and their skilled drivers. A Big thank you.
A particular thanks must go to our considerable array of support staff, touring and otherwise. We are very lucky to have you all again, far too many mention, but again you know who you are, thank you.
And last but at all not least to our droves of fans around the world, you will never know how much you touch our hearts and we appreciate every ounce of love and support you show us year in and year out. You guys really are one of a kind………. Enjoy our latest mix of Love Songs from years gone by, we have made them just for you, xxxx See you on tour in 2007. Be safe and “Live the Dream”.

Love the Lads. Kian, Mark, Nicky, Shane x

Back Home
This new album will take us into a new era. The past decade of recording and touring for us four has been just incredible... during that time our families and friends have always been there for us, so we'd like to dedicate this album to them and simply say thank you... also to our amazing fans all over the world, we hope you enjoy this album and we'll see you all on tour... love, the lads xxxx

Croke Park concert, 1st June 2008
"Well Croke Park, did you have fun tonight, yeah? We certainly did have fun tonight, This is defenitely the best night of our career guys, thanks very much. It's our birthday. It's the pinnacle. Thanks everybody for coming down and it's very very hard to put into words how we feel right now, but this is the best night of my life, I have to say. It's unbelievable. *gets teary-eyed & swallows*

I wanna say hello to my mum and dad, who are here. Without you guys I wouldn't be standing here. So thank you very much, from the bottom of my heart, I love you so much! To all my brothers and sisters, my friends and everybody who's here from Sligo, thank you guys for sticking with me for 10 years. Go Sligooo!

I also wanna say, my little girl Nicole is here tonight watching her daddy, I hope you enjoyed it and I love you very much. And to the one girl who stood by me for 10 years *puts hand on his heart*, my rock, my wife, Gillian, I love you so much, thank you!

And to everybody else, the crew tonight and all the staff from Croke Park thank you so much for keeping everybody safe. We will see you in 2010 guys, for now, good night!"

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