Patti is featured in Fireworks magazine’s May/June issue with a double-page interview article. You can buy a copy of the magazine in selected stores in the UK and in the Rocktopia online shop – check for issue number 63. They have UK, EU and US delivery options.
If you can’t get hold of a copy, there’s a full transcript of the article below.
The wait is over, people! Patti’s solo EP XO!! is now available for download.
XO!! features Patti’s songs Bring Me a Bible and a Beer, How Long, One Door Opens and Here We Are.
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So we thought the UK tour was over, but it just keeps on going: Patti will be playing the sold-out Isle of Wight Festival on Sunday, 15 June 2014.
If you’re going, make sure to check her out on the Strongbow Garden stage!
French music site Rock Meeting has posted a new interview with Patti, discussing her recent UK tour and her own music.
Interview PATTI RUSSO 18/05/2014
by Florence Bouvrot
While touring with Meat Loaf for nearly twenty years, Patti Russo’s voice and stage performance have already seduced dozens of millions of people in the whole world. Over the years, she has also worked with numerous famous artists including Cher, Queen, Bryan Ferry, The Trans-Siberian Orchestra… Not to forget the theatre stage as she played Esmeralda in Notre Dame de Paris and Killer Queen in Las Vegas production “We Will Rock You”.
Singer-songwriter, Patti is now launching her own solo career that began with a UK Tour in April and she has also released an EP of four songs: Xo!!.
A talk with the most European singer from the States…
1/ Hello Patti, you’ve just performed the first gig of your UK Solo Tour. I’d really like you to share with us your feelings during that show.
“It was a pretty amazing moment for me, I must say. Though I’ve been on that stage before as a guest singer, this time is was me fronting a band. I should’ve done this years ago ! Seeing all those familiar faces in the audience was equally amazing and made me feel very honored that they came out to support me.“
2/ You’re really loved by all your fanbase around the world. How would you describe your relationship with your fans?
“They’re great! I’ve known some of them for years and have seen their kids grow up. They’ve been extremely supportive and kind. And they will travel the globe to see you! Very grateful to all of them.“
3/ Everybody was so looking forward to seeing you on stage by your own. Which event finally gave you the impulse to work on this tour? And why did you decide to come first to the UK?
“Waking up to an email, telling you that you no longer had a job after 20 years will get your brain scrambling pretty fast, I’ll say. Performing is my life and who I am, so given what had happened and how it happened, it was an obvious decision to go out there and finally live my childhood dream. I mean, what else can you do really? You can sink or swim and I chose to swim. I chose the UK because it has always felt like home for me. I try to get to there whenever I can.”
It’s been almost a month since Patti kicked off her first solo tour of the UK with a gig at the Brook in Southampton. And now you can re-live the memories with this gorgeous photo set, courtesy of Jim Templeton-Cross / TX63 Music Photography.
We’ve got more photos from the tour on the photos page, and don’t forget to check out the tour round-up with the full setlist, videos, reviews and more.
In case anybody is still feeling the post-tour blues, here are some lovely new photos to cheer you up! From Patti’s gig at the O2 Academy Islington in London on 27 April, where she was joined by special guests John Partridge and Queen’s very own Spike Edney. Photos by Jim Templeton-Cross / TX63 Music Photography.
It’s been a busy week for Patti. After heading back to the US to appear at the Make-A-Wish foundation’s charity gala in New Jersey last weekend, she was back in London yesterday joining John Partridge at the Radio Academy Awards.
Patti appeared on BBC Radio 2 today sharing some of her memories related to songs from the 1970s. She picked Tom Jones’ She’s a Lady which, as she told host Johnnie Walker, takes her back to her childhood and singing the song using her mother’s candlesticks as a microphone, as well as Emma by Hot Chocolate, which she said has stayed with her until this day.
You can listen to the full interview here:
The tour may be over but the photos keep coming in. Here’s a beautiful set from the gig in Brighton on 21 April, by Jim Templeton-Cross / TX63 Music Photography.
Don’t miss this: Patti will appear on Johnnie Walker’s Sound of the 70s on BBC Radio 2 on Sunday, 11 May from 15:00.
From the programme description:
Johnnie Walker celebrates the decade of Rainbow, Roberta Flack and the Ramones, playing some of the finest songs the seventies had to offer.
This week he hears the seventies memories of vocalist Patti Russo. Best known for her work with Meat Loaf, performing with him for over twenty years, she has also worked with the likes of Queen, Jeff Beck and Cher. She also appeared in the West End production of Notre Dame De Paris and was asked by Brian May and Roger Taylor to perform in their Las Vegas production of We Will Rock You.
Tune in:
Sun 11 May 2014
15:00
BBC Radio 2
