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” On his 20th Anniversary tour: I’m very proud of the fact that I’ve been able to remain in the industry for such a long period of time, and it really is, from my perspective, something to celebrate. ” I can imagine. Just to get out and see you and also see friends again. Because we’ve all had to give up a lot of our life! What can we expect from the tour? It’s a collection of material from the last twenty-one years of my recordings. It’s the repertoire that I think the fan base would expect first and foremost and then similarly a few surprises in there. I think it’s all the material and repertoire that underpins the last twenty-one years of my recording career. I’m very proud of the fact that I’ve been able to remain in the industry for such a long period of time, and it really is, from my perspective, something to celebrate. Does it feel like it’s been twenty-one years since you recorded your first album? You know what, when I think about all the things that have happened to me over twenty-one years it feels like two lifetimes! But when I actually look back in retrospect to, say for instance, when I first went into the studio with my producer Nick Patrick in 1999, it literally feels like the blink of an eye. It feels like it was last week! It’s such a strange feeling, but life is like that isn’t it? I think all those moments that we feel underpin who we are, the successes in our lives, the failures, the difficult times, they’re the moments that we single out and they are they key elements in our lives. They are part of a big jigsaw, and when you look back on them it doesn’t feel like they were that long ago but when you think about all the water that’s gone under the bridge in between it feels like I’ve done so much, and I’ve been incredibly fortunate in my career as well. It’s like looking at old pictures of yourself back in the 80s. Did I really have a mullet? I did. I know what you mean. I look at pictures from that period, particularly with reference to my teenage years and even though, stylistically, some of the stuff I was wearing was odd, I just look back on it and think ‘Oh my god, that was such an uncomplicated period of my life’. It just seemed like it was sunshine every day of the Summer, and snow in the Winter and everything just seemed so massively uncomplicated. So you’ve been busy with a new album? No, there’s no new album this year. I’ve decided to take a year off from recording. But last year at the beginning of 2020 I went into the studio to make to 20th anniversary recording which was released last Christmas. So they’ll be nothing this year. I just sort of feel like I want to let the dust settle on 2021 and then maybe next year, if everything is fully operational again and we have some sort of semblance of normality, then maybe we can look at another four quarter release for 2022. During your career you have played at some amazing venues around the world. Does it still make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up when you walk on stage? That can happen for different reasons. It’s not necessarily with regards to the location I’m performing in. But it can happen if I get a moment in a song where there’s maybe a memory of a certain moment or somebody that maybe I’ve lost in my life and a memory comes in. But with regards to being in venues where I would most definitely look out and think: “My God how did I end up here? This is awe-inspiring.” I mean the Vatican is one of those moments that I can single out. It was just tremendous, not least of all because the Pope was there as well. No pressure there then! You know what? I’ve never really felt pressure. It’s funny, it’s something that was born into me and it’s not something I ever really think about. I just go on there and I do what I do. It doesn’t matter whether I’m singing to ten people or ten thousand people. I go on and I do what I do, and I do it with the same enthusiasm and technique as I would do it anywhere. I remember doing the opening ceremony for the Commonwealth Games, and there was one of the yellow bibbed stewards stood at the side of the stage. I was waiting to go on and he said to me: “You alright there Russell mate?” I said: “Yeah I’m good thank you.” He said: “You’re not nervous are you?” I said: “No, I’m fine.” He says: “There’s a lot of people out there, about forty-thousand people in the stadium I’ve heard.” I said: “Really? Great!” He continued, saying: “All the athletes from all the nations, all with their banners. They’re all out there.” I said: “Lovely.” He then says: “Her majesty the Queen is out there, yeah she’s out there too. And I’ve heard there’s about a billion people watching live on TV.” I said: “Right, please be quiet now because you are making me nervous!.” Who would you say are you musical influences? Believe it or not, my biggest musical influence as a child would have been my Gran! Whenever I would go round my Gran’s house, she was a massive classical music fan. I’ve been listening to everything from Chopin, Schubert, Schumann…all those greats. Mario Lanza was a constant fixture in the house so I was very familiar with a lot of those big classical artists from an early age. So she was a big influence. But in regards to artists, Luciano Pavarotti was a big favourite of mine. But as a kid it was all about Paul Weller and The Jam and The Beatles to a degree. I mean The Beatles were slightly before my time, but still I had my old semi-acoustic guitar and I used to bash out tunes with my old pals, sit up in our bedrooms or whoever’s garage we could use and jam away to the old Beatles bumper book of 101 songs. Great memories, they were probably my biggest influences. How can we find out more information on the tour? You can find all the information you need on the website including the dates that we are doing. It’s russellwatson.com, so you’ll find all my new dates on there, plus you are able to book through it too so that’s great. www.minervamagazines.co.uk | 11
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