In February 2000, All Saints released the single ” Pure Shores ” as the soundtrack for the film The Beach , written by Shaznay Lewis and William Orbit , with the latter also producing the song. “Pure Shores” became their fourth number-one single in the United Kingdom and the second best-selling single of 2000, with 824,000 copies sold; The song won an Ivor Novello Award for Most Performed Work. Also in 2000, the Appleton sisters and Blatt made their film debut with Honest , which was directed by former Eurythmics member Dave Stewart . Honest is a black comedy set in Swinging London in the late 1960s, in which the singers playing three saucy streetwise sisters who head “up West” to pursue a life of crime. The film received attention for the Appleton sisters topless scenes. Their performances were widely panned; one critic remarked, “It is the worst kind of rubbish, the kind that makes you angry you have wasted 105 minutes of your life watching it”.
released single ‘Pure Shores’
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