Texas star Spiteri ‘nonetheless dwelling the dream’ forward of Belladrum

Texas’ Sharleen Spiteri says her love of performing stay has not diminished – virtually 40 years after the Glasgow band was shaped.

Famous for hits together with Say What You Want and Black Eyed Boy, Texas accomplished an enviornment tour final 12 months and are about to play a sequence of dates throughout Europe.

“I by no means stroll out on stage pondering ‘I’m probably not within the temper tonight’,” says Spiteri.

“In that second I’m desirous about the individuals dragged alongside by their companions, who’re type of like ‘I do not actually like Texas’ – I’m desirous about ensuring they depart the gig pondering ‘Texas are the best band I’ve ever seen’.”

Texas loved chart success by the Nineteen Nineties and 2000s, with Summer Son in 1999 and 2006-released single Sleep amongst their different hits.

The rock pop band have performed the Glastonbury music competition twice, and can shut the twenty first anniversary Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival within the Highlands this August.

Today Bellshill-born Spiteri juggles the calls for of touring with household life.

She says: “When you are free and single you are occurring the street for years at a time. You do not care, you are away, you are dwelling the dream.

“I’m nonetheless dwelling the dream to be sincere.

“I get to do what I like greater than something – standing on these levels and enjoying the songs I like a lot.

“We’re doing festivals this summer time, working four-day weeks in June, July and August, after which I get to be dwelling the remainder of the week to recuperate. It’s excellent.”

Spiteri admits to nonetheless having the occasional “pinch herself” second.

“I do really feel very fortunate and really privileged,” she says.

“I do have these moments once I go ‘wow’. It may be surreal generally.

“A few years in the past, I used to be standing on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury and punching the air after which immediately looking and it was only a sea of individuals.”

She says a efficiency at Glasgow’s OVO Hydro final 12 months was significantly memorable.

“The first evening we walked on we could not hear ourselves, the viewers was that loud.

“We stood on the stage one another pondering ‘Oh my god’.

“I assumed ‘Don’t begin the songs, I want a second to get my breath’. It was so emotional.”

She provides: “We’ve been doing this for a very long time. We’re an outdated band and we’re nonetheless enjoying to all these individuals. That’s nuts.”

Texas beforehand performed Belladrum in 2011 and Spiteri says the problem of preserving a competition going shouldn’t go unrecognised.

The singer provides: “The music trade is admittedly laborious. We’ve seen what number of venues and studios have closed.

“It’s actually laborious work making a competition, and so many individuals assume they will do it and it is nearly placing a load of bands on and that is that.

“A large amount of thought goes into the acts that play.

“We’re proud to have been invited again to Bella for its twenty first. We will need to have completed one thing proper.”

Spiteri says the Highlands as an entire is a particular place, with Texas having additionally performed gigs in Inverness, a couple of miles down the street from the Belladrum web site.

“The air up there’s higher than anyplace else on this planet,” she says.

“When you are a singer that is fairly necessary whenever you’re taking in huge gulps of air.

“Breathing that Highland air you’re feeling prepared.

“And to stroll out into that lovely panorama, to play amongst that, that’s one thing fairly rattling particular.”