Wet Wet Wet - Love Is All Around

 Wet Wet Wet are a Scottish soft rock band formed in 1982. They scored a number of hits in the UK charts and around the world in the 1980s and 1990s. The band is composed of Graeme Clark (bass, vocals), Tommy Cunningham (drums, vocals), Neil Mitchell (keyboards, piano, vocals) and, since 2018, lead vocalist and former Liberty X singer Kevin Simm, who replaced founding member Marti Pellow after he left during the previous year. A fifth, unofficial member, Graeme Duffin (lead guitar, vocals), has been with them since 1983. The band were named Best British Newcomer at the 1988 Brit Awards.

They are best known for their 1994 cover of The Troggs' 1960s hit "Love Is All Around", which was used on the soundtrack to the film Four Weddings and a Funeral. It was a huge international success and spent 15 weeks atop the British charts. One week before potentially equalling the record for the most consecutive weeks at number 1 on the UK singles chart, held by Bryan Adams' "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You", it dropped to number two.

The quartet formed at Clydebank High School in Clydebank, Scotland, in 1982, under the name "Vortex Motion", mostly playing covers of The Clash and Magazine. "It was either crime, the dole, football, or music — and we chose music," said Tommy Cunningham. The original line-up consisted of: Neil Mitchell (keyboards), Tommy Cunningham (drums), Graeme Clark (bass), Mark McLachlan (a.k.a. Marti Pellow) vocals and original guitarist Lindsey McCauley.

Clark and Cunningham met on the school bus and became close friends. Mutual friend Neil Mitchell, prompted by his pals' positive attitude, promised to supply keyboards when he could scrape together enough money from his paper round. To complete the quartet, Clark approached Mark McLachlan, who at the time was training to be a painter and decorator. He said, "At break we all went behind the kitchen for a fly smoke, and there in the corner was this quiet kid who said very little, but when he sang, everyone listened." It was sometime in 1983 that Graeme Duffin joined Wet Wet Wet, after the departure of co-founder Lindsey McCauley. Duffin had previously been in a Glasgow-based band called New Celeste and recorded two albums with them High Sands and the Liquid Lake (1977) in Holland (with sleeve notes by Billy Connolly) on the Universe label and On the Line (1979) in Berlin on the Hansa Records label. The band combined folk, rock and jazz players.

With the line-up complete, rehearsals took place in Mrs. Clark's kitchen. They rehearsed for about two years, working on song producing and writing skills. They eventually made their live debut at Glasgow's Nightmoves venue. At this gig they met Elliot Davis, who would become the band's manager. The band name Wet Wet Wet was chosen from a line in the 1982 Scritti Politti song "Gettin' Havin' & Holdin'" ("it's tired of joking... wet, wet with tears"), and McLachlan changed his name to stage name "Marti Pellow". Their first professional gig was a New Year's Eve show at Glasgow's Barrowlands.

David Bates signed the band to PolyGram in 1985. One of the first demo songs they did was "Wishing I Was Lucky". When the band took the demo to Bates in late 1986, he discarded it as a poor effort. The band decided at this point that they could no longer work with him. Six months later, the band and their new A&R Manager, Nick Angel, released the single, and it reached number six in the UK singles chart. "I was in a queue in a fish and chip shop in Glasgow when it came on Radio Clyde," Cunningham remembers. "I felt like shouting to everybody, 'That's me and my mates!' It was an incredible feeling I've not forgotten." The parent album, Popped In Souled Out, also became a hit and produced three more hit singles, namely "Sweet Little Mystery", "Temptation", and "Angel Eyes". They supported Lionel Richie on his UK tour.

In 1988, Wet Wet Wet scored their first Number 1 hit with a cover version of the Beatles' "With a Little Help from My Friends", recorded for the charity ChildLine. Another Beatles song, "She's Leaving Home", was equally-billed on the flip side, performed by Billy Bragg. In the same year, an album - entitled The Memphis Sessions - was released from their spell in the United States prior to hitting the big time. It was produced and mixed by Willie Mitchell. It was recorded at his Royal Studios in Memphis, Tennessee.

The following year the band released their third album, Holding Back the River, which was also a success and produced the hit single "Sweet Surrender". The album was well-received, relying more on strings and other classical arrangements. At the end of 1989, the band appeared on the Band Aid II charity single.

In 1992, the band released a fourth studio album, entitled High on the Happy Side, which spawned the Number 1 hit single "Goodnight Girl" – the only self-penned chart-topping single they have had to date. The song proved something of a saviour, as the previous two single releases from the album had failed in the singles charts, although the album reached the top of the UK Albums Chart. In total, five singles were released from it. The following day saw the release of a special-edition album, Cloak & Dagger, released under the alias "Maggie Pie & The Impostors". "Maggie Pie" was Marti Pellow, and the "impostors" were (on album cover, clockwise from top left) Neil Mitchell, Graeme Duffin, Tommy Cunningham, and Graeme Clark.

The band's first greatest-hits package, End of Part One, was released towards the end of 1993. The eighteen-song selection included "Shed a Tear" and "Cold Cold Heart", which were recorded with Nile Rodgers in New York City especially for the album and released as singles.

In 1994, Wet Wet Wet had their biggest hit, a cover version of The Troggs' single "Love Is All Around", which was used on the soundtrack to the film Four Weddings and a Funeral. It was a huge international success and spent 15 weeks atop the British charts. The week before it could have equalled the record for the longest-standing number-one single, held by Bryan Adams' "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You", Pellow insisted on its deletion because he wanted to focus on getting their next album, Picture This, finished.^[11] However, even after its deletion, there were still enough copies in the shops to get the song to number 2 in its 16th week, finally knocked off the top spot by Whigfield's debut single "Saturday Night". In any event, it remained in the Top 40 for the remainder of the year. In the official UK best-selling singles list issued in 2002 (the 50th anniversary of the chart), it was placed 12th. "Love Is All Around" also featured on the 1995 album Picture This, their sixth, which also spawned the hit single "Julia Says" and "Don't Want to Forgive Me Now". The album, although well received by critics, would ultimately live in the shadow of "Love Is All Around".

In 1995, they became the shirt sponsors of their hometown football club, Clydebank F.C.

During the rest of the 1990s the band maintained a strong UK following, although success in the singles charts became more sporadic. Their seventh studio album, 1997's Ten, celebrated the group's decade at the top.

After the tour in support of 10, things turned sour over a dispute about royalty-sharing. Revenue from the group's songwriting had been a four-way equal split. Cunningham turned up for a routine band meeting, only to discover that the other three members wanted to revise the policy, paying the drummer a lesser amount. Cunningham instantly quit the group saying that the band had run its course and that the band was no longer a healthy place to be.

In 1999 Pellow also quit the band, to focus on getting himself healthy again after succumbing to a debilitating alcohol and drug addiction. Pellow succeeded in kicking his habits, and returned to the public eye in 2001 with his debut solo album, Smile.

In March 2004, the band cautiously reformed in order to work on an eighth album. A single entitled "All I Want" was released in November 2004 from the band's second Greatest Hits, released a week later. They undertook a successful tour of the UK the following month.

In July 2005, Wet Wet Wet played at the Summer Weekender festival in England, and were one of the headline acts at Live 8 Edinburgh in Scotland. On 31 December 2006, Wet Wet Wet were the headline act for Aberdeen's Hogmanay celebrations when the celebrations in all other Scottish cities was held off because of strong winds and heavy rain. They performed thirteen songs in an hour-long set.

A single, "Too Many People", was released on 5 November 2007, and its parent album, Timeless, on 12 November. These preceded a sold-out December tour, a taste of which was given at their Newmarket concert in August. In preparation for the tour, the band also announced that they will be playing two intimate dates at zavvi stores in Glasgow and London in November. "Weightless", the second single from the album, was released on 4 February and charted at Number 10, giving them their first top-ten hit in eleven years.

In March 2012, it was announced that the band would perform its first concert in over five years, at Glasgow Green on 20 July, to celebrate their 25th anniversary of the release of their debut album, Popped In, Souled Out.

In May 2013, UK music promoter Stuart Galbraith of Kilimanjaro Live confirmed a ten date UK tour for Wet Wet Wet commencing in December 2013.

On 8 October 2013, Wet Wet Wet announced via their Twitter page that they would be releasing a new Greatest Hits album, Step by Step: The Greatest Hits, on 25 November 2013. The album features three new tracks as well as songs from their back catalogue.

On 28 July 2017, it was announced that Pellow had quit Wet Wet Wet to focus on his solo career.

On 25 September 2018, the band announced that Kevin Simm (formerly of Liberty X) was their new singer. Simm started singing with the band at two shows: St Lukes in Calton, Glasgow, and 229 The Venue in London in November 2018. Following on from their sold-out shows, they announced a nationwide 18-date tour, starting in April 2019.

In November 2020, the band announced the 2021 release of new album The Journey, their first studio album since 2007 and the first including vocals from former The Voice UK winner Kevin Simm, who also re-recorded the vocals on a number of their hits for the bonus CD (which comes with the 2CD/DVD version of album).

In May 2022, drummer Tommy Cunningham announced that he quit the band due to his hearing problem, and keyboard player Niel Mitchell also left the band.

Phil Perry / Vesta Williams - After the Love Has Gone

Philip Eugene Perry (born January 12, 1952) is an American R&B singer, songwriter, musician and a former member of the soul group, The Montclairs, from 1971 to 1975. He was also known for performing the opening song to Disney’s sitcom, Goof Troop.

Discovered by Catholic nuns while singing high masses in his Catholic Church (St. Elizabeth in East St. Louis), and a high-school talent show favorite, Phil Perry wrote and recorded his first single "Hey You" with The Montclairs, who were also based in East St. Louis. They were signed to the Archway Records label just before Perry turned 17 years old in 1969. The song is considered to be the first of a classic soul collection of Perry 'Old School' singles popular in the 1970s.

In 1972, The Montclairs recorded for Paula Records with minor soul ballads that included "Dreaming's out of Season," "Prelude to a Heartbreak," and "Begging's Hard to Do." The Montclairs left Paula Records and disbanded in 1975. Perry then moved to California with former Montclair Kevin Sanlin, recording as a duo, resulting in two albums at Capitol Records in the early 1980s that were produced by Chuck Jackson and Dr. Cecil Hale. One song, "Just to Make You Happy," had a respectable level of success in radio.

In the 1990s, Perry scored his first number-one R&B hit "Call Me" (previously recorded and written by Aretha Franklin), a remake of the 1970 hit, as well as the top-forty R&B singles "Amazing Love" and "Forever" (written by Brenda Russell), all from the album The Heart of the Man (1991), his first solo release. Perry is also featured on many GRP Records projects, and is considered to be a GRP all-star, featured with such smooth-jazz icons as guitarists Lee Ritenour and Russ Freeman, and pianist Don Grusin.

Perry is a featured vocalist on recordings by Michel Colombier, Don Grusin, Dave Grusin, Freddie Hubbard, George Duke, Najee, Bill Withers, Barbra Streisand, June Pointer, Johnny Mathis, The Benoit-Freeman Project (David Benoit & Russ Freeman), Sergio Mendes, Bobby Womack, Chaka Khan, Fourplay, George Benson, and Will Downing, among others. Solo hits also include "Love Don't Love Nobody" and "One Heart, One Love." He is also featured on the Bebe's Kids soundtrack singing a track with the late Renee Diggs. Other film song credits include Roots, Pretty in Pink, Short Circuit, Mr. Wonderful, Nice Girls Don't Explode, Riding Bean, Captain Ron, and a cameo appearance in the 2009 release of the Harrison Ford film Crossing Over.

In 1991 he released his first solo album on Capitol Records, and toured with labelmate Dave Koz for the next several years, going on to record 4 more albums.

On September 11, 2001, Perry was scheduled to perform at the World Trade Center's lunch-hour jazz concert series between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. As fate would have it, he was spared from the devastation of the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers. However, for the next few years, he sank into an artistic depression, and did not record again until invited by longtime friend Don Grusin, who he joined in September 2003 for a collaborative venture titled "The Hang." This CD/DVD project was nominated for a Grammy Award, and included Dave Grusin, Harvey Mason, Patti Austin, Natali Renee, Abraham Laboriel, Alex Acuna, Ernie Watts, Lee Ritenour, and others.

In 2006, former co-producer of the Magic album, Chris "Big Dog" Davis, urged Perry to record a collection of R&B hits titled Classic Love Songs as an independent one-off project for Shanachie Records. Since that time, Perry has recorded four projects for that label with Davis, including a project with Melba Moore. In 2007 he reunited with Dave Koz and toured the country. The same year, he released the album "Mighty Love," for which he was voted the 2007 Male Vocalist of the Year in the SoulTracks Readers' Choice Awards. In 2008, Perry recorded a duet album with Tony Award-winning vocalist Melba Moore titled "The Gift of Love." It was awarded the Duo Album of the Year Award in the SoulTracks Readers Choice Awards.

After returning from a South African trip, Perry became ill during a performance with Pieces of a Dream, in October 2009, at Southern Connecticut State University. Unsubstantiated rumors began to circulate that he had died. While there is no definitive medical diagnosis for the collapse, he was treated at a local New Haven hospital and released with the strong recommendation that he take some time off and rest. In 2010, "Ready for Love" was released by Shanachie. Inspired to continue writing after his health scare, this effort featured more Phil Perry originals than in any of his earlier releases, which was said to be of great satisfaction to him.

March 2013 saw the release of Say Yes, his 10th solo album, and the 5th on Shanachie. It charted in the Top Ten on Billboard and A.C. Smooth jazz charts, as well as receiving Smooth Jazz top vocal credits. Two years after its release, Say Yes continued its steady climb to become one of Billboard's 2014 top smooth-jazz singles, featuring Perry in a classic duet cover of Where Is the Love? with Chanté Moore.

The 11th solo release from Perry on the Shanachie label—"A Better Man"—was #1 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz chart in the first week of its release.

Mary Vesta Williams (December 1, 1957 – September 22, 2011) was an American singer-songwriter, who performed across genres such as pop, jazz, adult contemporary and R&B. Originally credited as Vesta Williams, she was simply known as Vesta beginning in the 1990s. She was known for her four–octave vocal range. She once sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" for the Los Angeles Lakers game opener using all four of those octaves. Although Williams never had any albums certified gold nor any Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, she scored six Top 10 hits on the United States Billboard R&B chart from the mid–1980s to the early–1990s that included "Once Bitten, Twice Shy" (1986), "Sweet Sweet Love" (1988), "Special" (1991), and her 1989 single and signature song, "Congratulations".

Born in Coshocton, Ohio, United States, Williams' father was a disc jockey. Her family moved from Ohio to Los Angeles in the 1960s. While there, Williams and her three sisters, Margaret, Marte and Marlena, appeared on the television show Jack and Jill as "The Williams Sisters". Later, she returned to Ohio but decided to go back to Los Angeles in order to launch a solo career. Former Fifth Dimension member Ron Townson put Williams in his band Wild Honey. Following that stint, Williams found work as a backup singer, working with artists such as Chaka Khan, Gladys Knight, Sting, Stephanie Mills, Anita Baker and Gordon Lightfoot. Williams sang on the original version of Joe Sample's "The Survivor", and met producer David Crawford while working with his group Klique. After doing session work, she landed a recording contract with A&M Records and her debut album, Vesta, was released in 1986. The album featured her first Top 10 R&B hit "Once Bitten, Twice Shy", which became her only UK hit and performed modestly on the US R&B charts.

Her 1988 release, Vesta 4 U, produced the Top 10 R&B hits "Sweet Sweet Love", "4 U", and "Congratulations", with the latter peaking at #55 on the Hot 100 chart and #5 on the R&B chart. "Congratulations" was Vesta's only single to enter the Hot 100 chart. The album was also her most successful, and her only album to appear on the US Billboard 200, peaking at No. 131. There were persistent rumors that the song was inspired by the dissolution of her long-time relationship with Bruce Willis and that Demi Moore was directly responsible for ending it. In 1991, Williams released her third album entitled Special, with the title track as a single. "Special" became her highest-charting song on the R&B chart at #2, but sales of the album were less than that of Vesta 4 U. Her next album, 1993's Everything-N-More, produced only a minor R&B hit, "Always".

In 1989, Polygram Records purchased A&M Records. Williams' 1998 album Relationships was released under the Polygram name, and it became a modest seller, appearing on the R&B charts. Following the release of Relationships, A&M/Polygram did not renew her contract. Williams continued to work as a session singer, landing spots on albums by such artists as Phil Perry, Howard Hewett, and George Duke. Her voice could be heard by radio listeners in jingles for advertisers that included McDonald's, Nike, Baskin-Robbins, Diet Coke, Revlon and Exxon. That same year, she performed the opening theme to the ABC miniseries, The Women of Brewster Place.

Williams portrayed a saloon singer in the 1993 film Posse, directed by Mario Van Peebles. During this time period she had a hit with the SWV song, "Rain", recorded alongside smooth jazz musician Norman Brown. Williams had a recurring role as "Monica", Jackée Harry's best friend, in the television series Sister, Sister in the 1998–99 season. Her singing voice is featured in the theme song of UPN's Malcolm and Eddie.

In 2000, Polygram released a compilation album, featuring songs from Williams and former A&M artist CeCe Peniston. In 2007, Williams released an album of R&B songs on Shanachie Records entitled Distant Lover. Produced by Chris "Big Dog" Davis, Distant Lover was a cover album featuring songs originally recorded by Bill Withers, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, Sade, and Deniece Williams. Her last recording was the song "Dedicated," released on 7 December 2010 on Stimuli Music.

By 2002, Williams had become a radio personality, and was co-hosting a morning show on KRNB in Dallas/Fort Worth. In recent years, Williams had lost 100 pounds, going from size 26 to size 6. It was at this time that Williams became an advocate for the prevention of childhood obesity and juvenile diabetes.

Her final performance occurred on September 17, 2011 in Portsmouth, Virginia at the Autumn Jazz Explosion, just five days before her death.

She was scheduled to perform at the 21st annual "DIVAS Simply Singing!" in Los Angeles on October 22, 2011. Shanice performed "Congratulations" during the show as a tribute to Williams. There was also a tribute to the late singer Teena Marie. Williams was taping an episode of TV One's Unsung at the time of her death. It aired January 2, 2012.

On September 22, 2011, Williams was found dead in a hotel room in El Segundo, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. According to the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office, she was found dead at 6:15 p.m. (PDT), A spokesperson for the coroner's office stated that the autopsy did not say the cause of death. In late December 2011, the family released this statement through singer/producer Norwood Young, reporting her official cause of death: "Following three months of intensive coroner's autopsy and toxicology research, it has been definitively determined that the cause of death for our beloved Vesta was 'natural death' from 'hypertensive heart disease,'" adding: "An enlarged heart can remain undetected for many years."

Vesta Williams was laid to rest at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) on October 4, 2011 following a memorial service at West Angeles Church of God in Christ in Los Angeles, California. Attendees included Wanda Dee, singer Peggi Blu, Freda Payne, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Loretta Devine, Kellita Smith, Norwood Young, Michael Collier, Miki Howard, Karel Bouley, Kiki Shepard, Jackée Harry, Luenell, and renowned blues singer Linda Hopkins. A private reception was held following the interment. 

She is survived by her mother, daughter, three sisters, a brother, and three grandchildren.

All Saints - Lady Marmalade

 All Saints es un grupo musical británico que se formó en Londres en 1993. Publicó su primer disco en el año 1997. Formado por Melanie Blatt y Shaznay Lewis (fundadoras de la banda), y las hermanas canadienses Natalie y Nicole Appleton, integradas más tarde en el grupo. Han vendido 11.000.000 de copias hasta la fecha.

Melanie y Shaznay comenzaron su carrera musical cantando como coros en el ZTT Recording Studios en All Saints Road, Londres. En 1993, Melanie, Shaznay, y la tercera miembro original llamada Simone Rainford decidieron formar un grupo musical y grabar un disco juntas. Según Simone, pensaron en llamarle al grupo Spice, pero decidieron que eso no era buena idea, y decidieron llamarse All Saints 1.9.7.5., nombre de la calle donde se conocieron y el año de sus nacimientos. Fueron contratadas por ZTT Records UK.

En 1994, All Saints 1.9.7.5. actuaron por primera vez en el Touch Magazine en el Notting Hill Carnival. Las tres grabaron tres canciones, pero fracasaron. Además, Melanie y Simone tuvieron conflictos en cuanto a la dirección del grupo que causó serias tensiones en la banda.

En el verano de 1995, Simone Rainford dejó el grupo y ZTT Records despidió al grupo. A pesar de todo, Melanie y Shaznay decidieron continuar y buscar reemplazo para Simone. Después de muchas audiciones, el padre de Melanie conoció a Nicole Appleton, quien conoció a Melanie días después en el Sylvia Young Theatre School. Shaznay apoyó a Appleton para que se uniese al grupo. Su hermana Natalie Appleton fue la última en integrarse al grupo, después de que diese a luz a su hija Rachel dos años antes, y no quería dejar su maternidad al margen. Pero los padres de Nicole y Natalie le ofrecieron ayuda para criar a su bebé, para que pudiese seguir con su carrera musical.

Después de formarse como nuevo grupo musical en mayo de 1996, las cuatro conocieron a Karl Gordon, miembro de la banda Outlaw Posse, con quién grabaron un demo "I Know Where It's At". El siguiente paso fue buscar un nuevo contrato musical, pero muchas de las discográficas británicas querían llevarlas a convertirse en un duplicado de las Spice Girls. Afortunadamente, el demo consiguió entrar en London Records, donde John Benson cerró el contrato de las chicas en noviembre de 1996.

En 1997, "I Know Where It's At", su sencillo-debut, debutó en el #4 de las Listas de Ventas Inglesas. El siguiente sencillo, "Never Ever", fue el comienzo de la consagración como grupo en el mundo de la música, vendiendo más de 1 000 000 de sencillos solo en el Reino Unido, y más de 1 000 000 en el resto del mundo. El sencillo ganó 2 Premios Brit en 1998, por el Mejor Sencillo y el Mejor VideoClip. Otros premios son: "Artista Revelación en los MTV Europe Music Awards", Poco después, "All Saints" sería su álbum-debut, del que vendieron más de 5,000,000 de discos en todo el mundo. Su tercer sencillo, "Pure Shores", fue un éxito en las listas de ventas de todo el mundo, debido a que fue usado para la película de Leonardo DiCaprio "La Playa" The Beach, convirtiéndose en el segundo Best-Selling Sencillo de 2000.

Durante toda su carrera musical, la banda anotó cinco #1 singles. Después de publicar su segundo disco "Saints And Sinners", el grupo decidió separarse en 2001, después de numerosas especulaciones y rumores.

Nicole y Natalie formaron el dúo Appleton, con el que grabaron un solo disco con la discográfica británica "Concept Records UK", antes de Polydor Records, pero debido al fracaso de su disco, se marcharon a Concept, donde publicaron su último sencillo "Everything Eventually". Su primer y último álbum fue "Evetything's Eventual", que llegó al #9 en el Reino Unido, vendiendo menos de 80 000 copias, y menos de 100 000 en todo el mundo, siendo insuficientes para Polydor que las despidió.

Melanie Blatt publicó solo dos singles, con muy poco éxito en el Reino Unido, que fueron "Do Me Wrong", llegando al #18 y siendo despedida de London Records, y "See Me", banda sonora para la película "Robots", fracasando en el Reino Unido, llegando al #82.

Shaznay Lewis publicó a través de London Records su álbum-debut "Open", que fracasó en el Reino Unido, debutando en su primera semana en el #22, pero bajando en su segunda semana al #57. Sus dos singles publicados fueron "Never Felt Like This Before", que llegó al #8 en UK, y "You", llegando al #56 en UK.

El 24 de enero de 2006 fue anunciado el regreso del grupo. All Saints firmó un contrato multimillonario con Parlophone Records UK, discográfica de, entre otros, de Kylie Minogue, Pet Shop Boys o Jamelia. Casi un año después, el 13 de noviembre de 2006 publicaron su tercer álbum "Studio 1".

El primer sencillo escogido fue "Rock Steady", publicado el 6 de noviembre de 2006. El sencillo se eimitió por primera vez en el programa radiofónico británico The Chris Moyles Show, de la BBC Radio 1 el 21 de septiembre de 2006. NME anunció que la banda haría una gira extensiva por toda Europa para promocionar el disco y su regreso.

Después de que se separasen en 2001, el grupo actuó el sencillo "Rock Steady" en el famoso y exitoso programa de la ITV 1 "Ant & Dec's Saturday Takeaway" el 21 de octubre de 2006. Además, han participado en el Mobile Phone Company 3, en el programa "3FrontRoom", programa sobre actuaciones de grupos famosos.

El sencillo Rock Steady debutó en las Listas de Singles del Reino Unido como #3, siendo un gran éxito. Además, el sencillo tuvo un éxito muy moderado en las listas de Europa, pero un teniendo un gran éxito en las listas de Asia, llegando incluso al #1 en China o en Israel.

Después del #3 en el Reino Unido, el grupo esperaba que el disco Studio 1 tuviese el mismo éxito, y que conquistase el UK Top 10. Pero nada de eso ocurrió. El disco solo llegó al #40 en el Reino Unido, después de caer al #75 en su segunda semana. En el Reino Unido el disco ha vendido menos de 40,000 copias, siendo un fracaso total para el grupo. En Europa, el disco fue publicado el 20 de noviembre, siendo también un fracaso muy importante, destacando el #73 de Suiza o el #89 de Alemania. En Asia, el disco disfrutó de un moderado éxito, llegando al #30 en Israel, al #24 en China o al #57 en Japón.

El segundo y último sencillo de Studio 1 fue Chick Fit, canción que nunca se puso a la venta en formato CD en el Reino Unido, pero sí de forma Digital. El sencillo entró en una decepcionante posición #256 en el UK Singles Chart, conforme a las ventas en las Descargas. Debido a esto, All Saints y Parlophone rompieron de mutuo acuerdo el contrato, pudiéndose llevar los derechos de "Studio 1" para poderlo publicarlo de nuevo, o publicar nuevos singles promocionales. En Rumanía, el sencillo fue publicado, llegando al #64 en las Listas de Ventas, y en Asia, el sencillo solo fue publicado en Israel, China y Japón, publicándose el 12 de marzo de 2007, y llegando al Top 40 en ambos países.

Durante los últimos días de febrero, se ha rumoreado la posible marcha del grupo de Parlophone, debido a la escasa promoción que la discográfica ha hecho del disco y de los sencillos, y podrían conseguir un nuevo contrato en Polydor Records, discográfica de cantantes y grupos tan exitosos como son Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Nelly Furtado, Take That o Girls Aloud.

El 25 de mayo de 2013, la miembro original de All Saints, Simone Rainford, murió de cáncer de riñón un mes después de su cumplir 38 años de edad, en su casa de Greenwich.

En noviembre de 2013, se anunció que el grupo se reformaría oficialmente por segunda vez para respaldar a los Backstreet Boys durante cinco fechas en todo el Reino Unido e Irlanda en 2014.

El 27 de enero de 2016, confirmaron el lanzamiento de su cuarto álbum de estudio Red Flag el 8 de abril de 2016. El sencillo principal del álbum, "One Strike", precedió al álbum el 26 de febrero de 2016.​ Tras su lanzamiento, el álbum debutó en el número 3 en la lista de álbumes del Reino Unido.

El 22 de febrero de 2016, All Saints anunció su primera presentación en más de una década en el KOKO de Londres.​ El 15 de marzo de 2016, el grupo anunció su primera gira como cabeza de cartel en 15 años promocionando su álbum regreso de 2016, Red Flag.​

El 22 de octubre de 2016, anunciaron que serán los artistas soportes de Take That en su gira por Reino Unido e Irlanda en mayo y junio de 2017.​