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

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

Well-known for hits together with Say What You Need and Black Eyed Boy, Texas accomplished an enviornment tour final yr and are about to play a collection of dates throughout Europe.

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

“In that second I am excited about the folks dragged alongside by their companions, who’re form of like ‘I do not actually like Texas’ – I am excited about ensuring they go away the gig considering ‘Texas are the best band I’ve ever seen’.”

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

The rock pop band have performed the Glastonbury music pageant twice, and can shut the twenty first anniversary Belladrum Tartan Coronary heart Pageant within the Highlands this August.

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

She says: “Whenever you’re free and single you are occurring the highway for years at a time. You do not care, you are away, you are residing the dream.

“I am nonetheless residing the dream to be sincere.

“I get to do what I really like greater than something – standing on these phases and taking part in the songs I really 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 residence the remainder of the week to get well. It is 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 after I go ‘wow’. It may be surreal typically.

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

She says a efficiency at Glasgow’s OVO Hydro final yr was notably memorable.

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

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

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

She provides: “We have been doing this for a very long time. We’re an outdated band and we’re nonetheless taking part in to all these folks. That is nuts.”

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

The singer provides: “The music trade is absolutely arduous. We have seen what number of venues and studios have closed.

“It is actually arduous work making a pageant, and so many individuals suppose 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 should have executed one thing proper.”

Spiteri says the Highlands as a complete is a particular place, with Texas having additionally performed gigs in Inverness, a couple of miles down the highway from the Belladrum website.

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

“Whenever you’re a singer that is fairly vital while you’re taking in huge gulps of air.

“Respiration 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.”