Amy Winehouse heads back to hospital after lacklustre gigs
Amy Winehouse has reportedly checked back into hospital after her two performances in two days.
After singing at the Nelson Mandela 90th Birthday Concert in Hyde Park on Friday and at Glastonbury last night, Amy is said to have travelled back to London and the £2000-a-night private hospital, The Clinic.
A source explained: “She’s back at the Clinic. She likes it there and feels secure. She doesn’t have any worries while she’s in there.
“She even went back after the show on Friday night because she prefers it to her home.”
Both performances have been criticised for being patchy - with her slurrying the words and singing out of tune at times, largely attributed to her current chest infection - and for her behaviour on-stage, including spitting her chewing gum into the audience and apparently hitting an audience member as she walked around at the front of the crowd.
Amy was guided back onto the stage by security staff after the incident, which is said to have been provoked when the audience member grabbed at her infamous beehive.
An onlooker explains: “Even though the show was a bit of a shambles, most of the crowd were loving it and Amy went down to see the people at the front.
“She had her hand in the crowd and someone tried to grab it, then another person tried to grab her hair, causing her to react instinctively.”
In between songs, Amy made frequent references to her jailed husband Blake Fielder-Civil, who is currently awaiting sentencing for assault and perverting the course of justice - at one point, she told the audience: “My husband is out of jail in two weeks”.
She also dedicated her hit ‘Back to Black’ to Blake, saying: “This one was another one where I never thought I would see Blake again. I said, ‘Blake I never thought I would see you again’. I thought I would die with the man and then never see him again. I love him.”
Certain sections of the audience were less than impressed with her commentary but when they began booing, Amy took it in her stride saying: “Don’t boo. I’ll find your phone and ring your mum and tell them about your bad manners. Manners cost you nothing.”













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# June Bright on June 30th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Lack lustre gigs? Are you serious? She was electric at both.
You may not like her, but please don’t let this clould your judgement. You are distorting the truth.
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# Lucy on June 30th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
I very much like Amy’s music and her usual performance style actually, and I would love to see her have the long and fantastically successful career that she deserves.
But comparing either of these gigs to earlier ones, in my opinion, these ones are lacklustre. At the Nelson Mandela gig - for example these video of Rehab here - she looks to be going through the motions and not sparkling as much as she has done previously.
I don’t really blame it on her - drugs stuff aside, she’s clearly not in the best of health at the moment and her beloved husband is in jail - and won’t hold it against her but it is my honest opinion that these gigs weren’t her best. If you think they were great, then to-may-to, to-mar-to :)
-lucy :)
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# Pam on June 30th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
I am very sorry to say that I thought Amy Winehouse should not have been allowed to appear certainly at Glastonbury, which I saw.
She was barely able to hold herself straight and looked completely out of it, for whatever reason. Her rendition of Rehab was awful only that she has such a naturally amazing voice she was able to bluff it out. I think she is a very talented and special artist but unless she gets herself together she wont be able to trade on past history forever.
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