Nicole Appleton has revealed that her son Gene Gallagher inspired her to revisit Appleton with her sister Natalie Appleton.
The duo have recently released Falling Into You – their first new single for over 20 years – and Nicole says that Gene, 24, whom she has with Oasis rocker Liam Gallagher, was instrumental in their decision to return to the act that formed after All Saints first split in 2001.
The 51-year-old star told Rolling Stone: “I remember one day Gene said to me, ‘Mum, why don’t you just go back into the studio with Auntie Nat?'”
Natalie, 52, added: “(Our kids) are our harshest critics and if they didn’t think it was a good idea, they would have said, ‘Nah!’
“They’re massive fans and I think they thought we should’ve maybe thought more of ourselves and they just gave us that little nudge to give it a go.”
The sisters say they are looking forward to Gene and the rest of the Appleton family seeing them perform at shows this summer.
Natalie said: “I think they’re going to be very emotional I think.”
Nicole echoed: “They’ll shed a tear probably.”
The pair are closer than ever and revealed that they speak to each other on a daily basis.
Natalie said: “We’re loving sisters. Every single day we speak.”
Nicole added: “Today, we had to get here early so we could talk before this even started even though we spoke this morning on FaceTime for about an hour too.
“We talk in the car on the way home and then we’ll FaceTime when we get home again.”
Appleton are making plans for a new album after the response to Falling Into You but Natalie admits the pair had “no plan” and “no expectations” beyond the single.
She explained: “We just had such an incredible reaction to the single and after that we were like, ‘We’re going to have to do more.’ I mean, there’s a few we’ve been working on.”
Natalie says that the album will be a “natural progression” from their 2003 record Everything’s Eventual.
She said: “It’s just always going to have the same vibe. It will be along the same genre of what we’ve always done.”