I was lucky enough to catch up for the last official chat with Amy Macdonald the very day before she jetted out for her wedding in Vegas with her football playing man, ex-Rangers star Richard Foster. 

I met Amy at Scone Palace for BBC Music’s Biggest Weekend and almost missed her after I miscalculated how long the diversions would take from Glasgow to get to the festival site. 

The mix of sweltering sunshine and my tardiness left me hot and bothered but Amy remained cool as ever after her kind management allowed me of speak with her backstage. 

She told me she was going for a casual affair at the wedding with lots of cocktails and friends. I’d suggested that her wee dog Arnold might have looked good walking her down the aisle and she agreed she’d consider it - but I reckon his doggy passport couldn’t be rushed out in time.

Amy, who I’ve known since she began on her music journey (I shadowed her on her first tour round churches), told me she didn’t want any pressies on the big day - that her friends being there would be enough. 

She keeps her good friends close and has even written songs about her girlie gang in the past. 

She said: “Under Stars was written about my best mate who moved to New York and that song was about her. Dream On was about my other mate, so they always give me ideas.”

Amy’s appearance at Scone kicked off her UK festival season, but she claimed she started them as early as April in Europe -halfway up a Swiss mountain.  

She said: “We seem to start earlier and earlier now, but the best weather is in Scotland. This is the first of my UK festivals. It’s obviously a bit more exciting when you’re home and it feels a bit more magical. 

“I’ve been so lucky with the support I’ve got all round Europe. I do kind of feel like I’m at home in places like Germany and Switzerland now. 

“I have had such a loyal fanbase for such a long time, so it’s always the same faces there, but there is something very special playing a home crowd.”

Amy also suggested anyone wanting to follow in her footsteps would have to play Toilet Tours. 

She explained: “Just perform as much as possible, that’s the thing. I just constantly went to open mic nights and did millions of little gigs and it meant that, when the time came, that suddenly I was meant to be professional and doing proper gigs that I was used to doing it.

“A lot of younger artists are kind of thrust in to the spotlight with no experience of actually performing live. To me, that’s the most important part.  hat’s where you really prove that you can do it.

“I think, with so many people, they don’t get that experience early on and it’s a bit harder for them to sustain it.

“So, for me, I would just say keep playing and play anywhere really. They call them the toilet tours - they’re the ones that you do at the beginning, so do as many toilet tours as you can.”