All Saints to carry on

All Saints have vowed to continue as a band, despite confirming they have been dropped by their record label.

The all-girl four-piece released their comeback album "Studio 1" last year, to muted critical and commercial reaction.

The group have now released a statement confirming their departure from Parlophone, but insist they have no plans to split.

In a posting on their MySpace, All Saints commented: "First of all the four of us just want to say that we're really sorry you didn't get to know about the recent news i.e. the split from our label before anyone else.

"It really wasn't that clear cut for a while and we wanted to let things settle for a while and give ourselves a break. As usual the press seems hell bent on repeating their negative reporting and we just felt it was time to say something official.

"Of course we're really disappointed that things didn't work out with our album, 'Studio 1', on Parlophone. We've just hit some very weird turns along the way with some of the media which is such a shame for our fans as we know you love our music."

They conclude: "We're going to continue making our music and we'll keep you in the picture as things go."document.write(unescape("