Una Healy has opened up on her time with The Saturdays ahead of the 15th anniversary of their debut album ‘Chasing Lights’ (2008).
The five-piece girl group, also starring Frankie Bridge, Mollie King, Rochelle Humes and Vanessa White, made their Top 10 debut in that summer with their first single, If This Is Love.
It featured alongside Up, Issues and Work on the hit record, and while celebrating the release of her latest solo single This Is Your Life, she looked back on their chart-topping era.
“It was crazy. We used to bring a single out every three months – imagine,” the singer-songwriter tells Retro Pop. “We’d do the single and all the promo that goes with that, and then we’d start again [on the next single]. So we literally never took a break. We just kept going…”
Her time in The Saturdays may have been non-stop, but Una insists she “loved” every moment with the band and she’d “go back and do it all again if [she] could”.
On the prospect of a reunion to celebrate the upcoming anniversary, she shares: “I would love to do something – and I think it would be a shame not to. I don’t know whether it’ll be 15 years, or 16 years…
“Personally, I would love to do something with the girls again. It would never be the same as it was – as intense as it was – it would be a different version of it,” she says, adding of the possibility of a reunion tour: “We’d have to get everybody on board. It would be nice if we did do something again, that it would be all of us. We always said that if we did anything again, we’d want it to be all of us.”
It comes as Una returns with her latest solo track This Is Your Life – a song she started writing as a teenager, 25 years ago. She explains: “It was one of the first songs that I wrote and that I got quite excited about at the time. It was one of my party pieces – I sang it as part of a music exam for school. it was very deep and philosophical for a 15 year old, but I knew one day I would release it
“I was doing a writing session with the singer-songwriter Anna Krantz. We wrote a couple of tracks together and I was like, ‘Can I play you something that I have been sitting on for a long time?’ She really loved it and she said, ‘Let’s do a new version of it’.”
Does she have other unreleased songs that she plans on revisiting in the future? “I did that before, one of The Saturdays’ B-sides was called Had It With Today and that was a song that I wrote when I was a teenager. So it has happened in the past where I’ve revisited songs. There might be a couple, but I’m looking forward to actually going into the studio and writing new music.”
This Is Your Life is out now.
