Boyle admits to feeling nervous ahead of long-awaited Edinburgh debut
Susan Boyle has opened up on a looming debut for the Britain’s Got Talent star – her first performance at the Usher Hall.
Despite her fame across Scotland, the 58-year-old from Blackburn has never appeared at the prestigious Edinburgh venue. She will break new ground when she opens her new tour at the Lothian Road venue on 1 March and admitted: “I’m excited right now and a bit nervous actually.
“I have never sung here before so it will be a whole new experience for me. It’ll be quite something stepping onto that stage. I’ll have to up my marketnow. where do you go from here?” The nerves, she insists, are a good thing.
She said: “It’s good nerves. I channel them into whatever I’m doing and try to do good at it. I’ve been promoting the concerts, doing a bit of everything, and that has helped build up my excitement.”
Boyle’s The Ten Tour, as the title suggests, celebrates the Britain’s Got Talent hopeful turned global superstar’s ten years in the spotlight – a decade in which she went from singing her local Blackburn karaoke to performing for the Pope and in front of millions on TV worldwide.
“It all feels a bit surreal,” she admits. “When big things happen, they’re what I call my ‘pinch-you’ moments and there have been quite a few ‘pinch-you’ moments over the last ten years.”
Appearing on the ITV talent show led to further appearances on its US counterpart, America’s Got Talent, and brought Boyle daily recognition.
“I got chased into a loo once,” she says. “So sometimes it’s OK, sometimes it’s not.
“Then you get the funny ones who come up to you and say ‘you’re Susan Boyle’, and I say, ‘well that’s what it said last time I looked at my birth certificate’, but on the whole the public tend to be protective of me.”
Boyle added: “I love the atmosphere of being on tour. I love the fact that we are all together as a team, we all gel ... it doesn’t just happen itself. If it wasn’t for the crew and all the team we just wouldn’t have a show.”