Hey guys,

Firstly, we hope u had an incredible Christmas and all got a little visit from Santa. I spent my xmas in the gorgeous Swiss alps, Charlie in sunderland with cutie jack, Pheebs in surrey with her famile and emz in tourquay with her family.

We're blogging to u guys from the beautiful Ireland. We have been supporting the yummy Shayne Ward for two nights in Killarney and are on our way to Castlebar for a show tonight. The Irish audiences are always awesome and last night was particularly amazing! After not gigging for a few weeks due to Xmas it was soooo exciting to get back on that stage and really enjoy ourselves. We came off screaming and buzzing and were hyper all night!! One thing's for sure we definitely haven't lost our love for performing, and are surer than ever of how much we want this!

We also wanna say thank u for all your awesome and supportive comments on our new music! We love reading ur opinions, it was so important to us that u guys-who have stuck by us since the xfactor days, liked our new direction and sound!! We can't wait to perform our new songs! The album is now really coming together and things are getting seriously exciting!

Love u all, keep the questions coming and soon as we're back we'll be online answering!! Invite everyone u know to officialhope.com!! Woooohoooo!!

Love uuuuuu

Raquelle, Charlie, Emily n Phoebe xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx