Troubled Amy dedicates song to jailed husband
Troubled soul singer Amy Winehouse returned to the stage for the opening night of her UK tour, dedicating one of her songs to her husband who was locked up earlier this week.
In a sometimes brilliant, but often shambolic, set in Birmingham last night, Ms Winehouse devoted the song Wake Up Alone to her husband Blake Fielder-Civil which features the lyrics: “This face in my dreams seizes my guts. He floods me with dread.”
She told thousands of fans at the city’s National Indoor Arena: “This is for my husband.”
Her set included hits such as Back To Black and Tears Dry On Their Own and closed with Rehab, which she stumbled through.
Towards the end of the show, as scores of fans headed for the exits, she challenged some who were booing saying: “To them people booing, wait ’til my husband gets out of incarceration. And I mean that.”
Dressed in a black mini skirt and shiny silver top with her trademark beehive hairdo, the 24 year old, if at times a little unsteady on her feet, still managed to belt out her best known songs, showing her recent rumoured problems with drink and drugs had not affected her vocal performance.
But the closing number, a cover of The Zuton’s Valerie descended into chaos when she stopped singing, dropped the microphone and walked off stage.
The Londoner has rarely been out of the headlines in recent months, dogged by rumours of alcohol and drug abuse as well as furious rows with her husband.
She cancelled summer shows and spent time in rehab earlier this year.
Earlier this week, Fielder-Civil was remanded into custody at Pentonville Prison on charges of perverting the course of justice over a court trial in which he is accused of assaulting a pub landlord in north London in June last year.
The UK tour finishes in Manchester on December 13.
