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

Texas’ Sharleen Spiteri says her love of acting are living has now not reduced – virtually 40 years after the Glasgow band was once shaped.

Famous for hits together with Say What You Want and Black Eyed Boy, Texas finished an area excursion closing 12 months and are about to play a chain of dates throughout Europe.

“I never walk out on stage thinking ‘I’m not really in the mood tonight’,” says Spiteri.

“In that moment I’m thinking about the people dragged along by their partners, who are kind of like ‘I don’t really like Texas’ – I’m thinking about making sure they leave the gig thinking ‘Texas are the greatest band I’ve ever seen’.”

Texas loved chart luck during the 1990s and 2000s, with Summer Son in 1999 and 2006-released unmarried Sleep amongst their different hits.

The rock pop band have performed the Glastonbury track competition two times, and can shut the 21st anniversary Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival within the Highlands this August.

Today Bellshill-born Spiteri juggles the calls for of traveling with circle of relatives existence.

She says: “When you’re free and single you’re going on the road for years at a time. You don’t care, you’re away, you’re living the dream.

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

“I get to do what I love more than anything – standing on those stages and playing the songs I love so much.

“We’re doing gala’s this summer time, running four-day weeks in June, July and August, after which I am getting to be house the remainder of the week to get well. It’s easiest.”

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

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

“I do have the ones moments after I move ‘wow’. It may also be surreal on occasion.

“A couple of years ago, I was standing on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury and punching the air and then suddenly looking out and it was just a sea of people.”

She says a efficiency at Glasgow’s OVO Hydro closing 12 months was once specifically memorable.

“The first night we walked on we couldn’t hear ourselves, the audience was that loud.

“We stood at the level taking a look at every different pondering ‘Oh my god’.

“I thought ‘Don’t start the songs, I need a moment to get my breath’. It was so emotional.”

She provides: “We’ve been doing this for a long time. We’re an old band and we’re still playing to all these people. That’s nuts.”

Texas up to now performed Belladrum in 2011 and Spiteri says the problem of protecting a competition going must now not move unrecognised.

The singer provides: “The music industry is really hard. We’ve seen how many venues and studios have closed.

“It’s in point of fact exhausting paintings creating a competition, and such a lot of other folks suppose they are able to do it and it is with regards to placing a load of bands on and that’s the reason that.

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

“We’re proud to had been invited again to Bella for its 21st. We will have to have achieved one thing proper.”

Spiteri says the Highlands as a whole is a special place, with Texas having also played gigs in Inverness, a few miles down the road from the Belladrum site.

“The air up there’s higher than any place else on the planet,” she says.

“When you are a singer that is lovely vital when you find yourself taking in giant gulps of air.

“Breathing that Highland air you feel ready.

“And to stroll out into that stunning panorama, to play among that, this is one thing lovely rattling particular.”