IT’S been 18 years since Beverley Craven made her name with Promise Me.

In the years that followed, she’s sold more than three million albums worldwide, before turning her back on the showbiz parties and globe-trotting to raise her three daughters (Mollie, now 17, Brenna, 14, and Connie, 12) with her songwriter/musician husband Colin Campsie.

“I was disillusioned by the music industry,” she explains.

“I’d been on the road for years and family was more important.”

In 2004, Beverley embarked on a comeback, making a handful of live appearances, but soon received devastating news when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Following treatment she was finally given the all-clear, and is now once again returning to the stage with a live tour and her new album, Close To Home.

“The difficulty is balancing the two – it’s the same for all working mums, I think,” says Beverley.

“I go from being onstage to making the packed lunches and mopping the floor. I don’t feel much like a star when I’m pushing the trolley round in Waitrose.

“Although maybe it’s a bit more glamorous than Lidl or Aldi. I keep getting tempted to go in. Everyone loves a bargain, don’t they?”

Now she’s preparing to bring her live show to Liverpool.

“It’s pretty intimate, I sing about pretty personal stuff,” she explains.

“I have a great relationship with the band – I suppose you have to when you’re on tour because you live in each others’ pockets. They are hot, hot, hot. I really rate them all as musicians, between them they’ve worked with Duran Duran, Girls Aloud, everyone really.

“I’ve not played Liverpool, so it’s something I’m looking forward to.

“I love The Beatles – although they used up all the best ideas before anyone else could get round to writing those songs.

“So many people copy them, but I always think you have to plough your own furrow.