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Posted on 09/08/07 at 04:48:24 pm
If you’ve been anywhere near NME.COM today you’ll be more than aware of Amy Winehouse’s latest bout of "Exhaustion".
When I’m exhausted, what I usually do is have a lie down, a cup of tea and spin the Fionn Regan album. I don’t get my stomach pumped and an adrenalin injection.
Recently everyone’s been making light of Amy’s no-shows and boozy behaviour.
Especially me, after a couple of weeks ago I saw her in the tiny backstage green room at Club NME, sozzled as a teenager after their first bottle of White Lightning, knocking back bevies with hubby Blake.
I couldn’t help but laugh when, at about 1am, Amy’s friend deliberately knocked over an entire drink on the bar.
With the hapless bar-maid distracted, Amy snuck behind her and pilfered two cans of Kronenburg 1664 from the bar fridge. It was funny, until I remembered I’d paid three quid for my can.
But should a multi-million selling, critic-creaming artist be swiping booze from a grimy (but fun!) Camden nightclub?
Isn’t being a rock (OK, “pop-jazz”) star supposed to be about balancing a liver-crippling life of hedonism with the music, not at the expense of it?
Amy’s career might be a very big shining light indeed, but this latest incident signals big beer can-shaped blimp threatening to eclipse it for good.
She’s a grown woman, so is responsible for her own health and well-being.
Still, husband Blake, by metaphorically holding the funnel to her mouth every night while she pours more Club NME-swiped booze into it isn’t what you’d call the rigid spine of a healthy support network.
Without a sudden booze embargo in Camden, I’m not sure things are going to change.
What do you think? Is Amy’s music being eclipsed by her boozing? Is her recent hospitalisation another nail in the coffin of her career? Post your comments below.
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DecLon 3000 [Visitor] //August 10 2007 at 00:22
Mrs Winehouse will be the next Joplin with half the legacy at this rate if she continues to miss gigs, freak out on stage and carve herself up in in interviews. The Pop charts and middle class festival goers aren't checking for pop-jazz chanteuses acting like Iggy Pop. Katie Melua isn't going all G.G. Allin for a reason. If her fall leads to the return of Jamie Cullum to any sort of prominence she'll be headhunted and scalped by me personally. Self harming self indulgent twig women that look like they are dressed for a Halloween party with the theme being "3rd world
malnutrition" are still preferable over emo haired "jazz punks"playing cover versions and acting like Jerry Lee Lewis if he was a foot shorter and lacked any lyrical talent.
Jamie [Visitor] //August 10 2007 at 10:37
Poor Amy Wino, it must be awful having to sing a few songs a couple of times a week AND fit in going on the lash every night!
It seems getting pissed up is her main focus at the moment
and I think fans will only put up with it for so long (although
having said that
getting so arsed you can barely speak doesn't seem to do old
Pete D's rep any harm does it!)
Kirsty Telford [Visitor] //August 10 2007 at 12:46
It's a real shame becuase Amy has such a great personality and fantastic voice. She really needs to slow down! Her boozing is definitely taking over..... more than her hair!
Angry Dave. [Visitor] //August 10 2007 at 13:27
Poor Amy......should put her and that twat Doherty together, buy em a shed load of skag and leave em to it.
Fookin loosers...
By the way when is the NME going to change it's name to - The Sun?
It wasn't like this my day son, I remember when you used to be good!
NME pass the bog roll please.
amy wino or amy offlicence [Visitor] //August 10 2007 at 16:26
coke head, go to rehab, yes yes yes
Joe [Visitor] //August 11 2007 at 04:31
Amy Winehouse is an incredibly talented musician and, like almost all musicians at her level, she has personal problems including drugs and alcohol. It's just the way it is. From Kurt Cobain to Jimi Hendrix and so on. Enjoy her music and let her do what she will.
Carol [Visitor] //August 11 2007 at 13:01
Although extremely talented, she seems to have all the baggage that goes along with her personna, if she don't straighten out soon, she will be just another sad statistic
Vince Berkeley [Visitor] //August 13 2007 at 13:45
I would be surprised if she didn't have booze and drug
problems. The sensitivity required by artistes and
performers often needs sluicing in depressant substances.
The problem is, she's a lass and that makes her more
vulnerable and susceptible. The not eating thing is a problem,.
She needs to have some proper breakfasts and eat loads
of sandwiches and drink plenty of tea. Then she can get
arseholed without much to worry about, and do gigs.
BTDTBTTS [Visitor] //August 13 2007 at 18:46
So Amy reckons that rehab is a cop-out and all she needs is some time with her dear old dad? Cobblers!
For those of us who don't have that kind of support, Rehab and such like can be a life saver (literally).
All of her comments on the subject sound to me just like any other addict in denial so in one way she is right, rehab won't help. Nothing will until she accepts and admits that she is an habitual abuser of drugs and alcohol and needs professional help with that and the underlying problem/s.
I feel sorry for her dad, I don't believe that he's a professional in the field of drug and alcohol abuse and must be finding the situation increasingly stressful. The arrangement is clearly not helping her either. If I were her dad I'd start intervention right now.
A period of enforced sobriety might give her something new (even positive) to write about, who knows?
Melanie [Visitor] //August 13 2007 at 18:58
sooooo disappointing. She is the first great talent I have heard in soooo long. All I've listened to for months (since her release in the states). If she dies it will be back to the cookie cutter pop tarts that are generated by record labels.
Amy, please don't die. I have tickets that I paid good money for... what a waste that would be.
[Visitor] //August 14 2007 at 14:56
As an Astrologer, I've seen her chart, its intense, as would be expected, but what is unexpected is that she is so young to be
be weighted with notoriety and peer pressure and that her p recious talent will get drowned or wasted and die like her counter ..
parts legends all...Amy, please slow down. Breathe and save your gift.
Blessings,
Selke
Mark Sampson [Visitor] //August 14 2007 at 16:16
I agree with Kirsty Telford. Amy Winehouse is an
incredible talent - the best female voice for a generation.
It's a great shame. Let's hope she regains control of her life
before she goes the same way as Janis Joplin.
Derek from: Canada [Visitor] //August 14 2007 at 17:15
Just another drug addicted role model for today's youth. We had them in all decades. There were heroin addicted Black Jazz musicians in the 40's. This use transitioned to Rythm and Blues, Blues and Rock.
They come and they go. Far too internalized and self-serving to understand that they hurt far more than themselves. Suicide is the most selfish of all acts and consistent drug use is a form of slow suicide.
It's a shame that there are so many more of these self-seeking drug addicted "Stars" to attract the youth of today. Someday a form of eugenics will *weed* them out before birth.
soho j [Visitor] //August 14 2007 at 17:22
why don't you all leave her alone. whats in her personal life stays in her personal life. so what she missed some gigs shes rescheduled nearly all of them. and she still performs 100%. and rehab is for quitters no wonder she says 'no,no,no'
Joey [Visitor] //August 14 2007 at 17:41
Amy Winehouse, I agree 100%+, is a phenomenally refreshing new female talent on a par with the greats:
Joplin, Hendrix, Morrison, and Cobain, most of whom only made it to the age of 27. I think her personal life is her business as long as she makes good on her gigs and reschedules. Self-destructive behavior with alcohol and drugs are a big part of the music scene: nothing new. She's very young and is a celebrity. Unfortunately, her private struggles are her own until
they are plastered all over the tabloids. We all learn through trial and error, if we are lucky enough to live through it. I believe that her outstanding musical talent
will help her survive. I just think she needs some mentoring from the living legend singers/musicians that she admires. Amy Winehouse you are amazing and the most refreshing talent I've heard in years. I vote that you will survive. Please keep on writing and singing. You are brilliant!
Ms. Moten [Visitor] //August 14 2007 at 19:55
Adults we are, right? Let's not sugarcoat this. Ms. Winehouse has serious problems.
"They try to make me go to rehab ..." No one can make her go anywhere. Let us pray and hope that by miracle or otherwise, she owns up to what is obviously a problem and goes to rehab on her own to get a handle on whatever is moving her to "exhaustion" before it's way too late.
There is nothing cute or funny or "in style" about a celebrity or any human being in the throes of an addiction (or, pray tell, any other behavior which may or may not include casual drug use/abuse). All we merely need do is take another look at the recent photos of the Lindsay Lohans and Britney Spears' and our own Ms. Winehouse to really know that whatever moves them to act as they do is definitely not in their best interests!
KC Whitener [Visitor] //August 16 2007 at 08:50
What's the matter with this little angel .. and why
does she appear to hate herself so ?
Though she may have millions of fans .. it appears
she has few if any real friends that love her enough
to do anything but stand by and watch her downhill slide ..
What a pity .. Such self destructive behaviour shows
she doesn't fully appreciate her own gifts,
let alone how desperately the music industry needs
such a breath of fresh air as she has brought it ...
to help shake it loose from it's death defying grip on
mindless, boring Hip Hop .... I love this woman's music,
and wonder where is the love of a husband .. who seems to delight in throwing banana peels on the floor
in front of her ... so he can laugh at her when she falls
"That isn't love Amy" .. is what her parents should be telling her
"get better angel .. please don't let yourself go go go"
dan botten [Visitor] //August 16 2007 at 18:29
amy winehouse??
the world shrugs
adam [Visitor] //August 16 2007 at 21:31
What a dick amy whinehouse, is her music is crap and she should just bugger off and stop letting her fans down. Its always nice to 2 that the money u spent on her cds and gigs is feeding her coke and drink habit.
Fashion Victim [Visitor] //August 16 2007 at 23:38
She's still a lash
Mattster [Visitor] //August 17 2007 at 08:04
A non-event! How many people get p*ssed up every night of the week (answer = LOTS!). Just because this one warbles a few tunes, does that make her special....not really!
She's as relevant as the the myriad of other trite spectacles the media obsesses over, and it's all rather boring, actually.
Dave Clark [Visitor] //August 17 2007 at 08:26
Festival appearances can't be rescheduled - V has a pretty naff line up as it is without a major crowd puller cancelling. Have they found anyone half decent to replace her? I very much doubt it.... I'm sick of these poxy 'stars' not being able to take control of their lives. Its pathetic. I wasn't planning on going to see that other drugged up loser, Pete Doherty, but at least he might turn up!
[Visitor] //August 17 2007 at 08:28
I don't think she cares any more, and that's just plain sad on all counts really.
Nando [Visitor] //August 17 2007 at 08:55
It is quite upsetting for everyone as I read on this blog,as it
is for me to see Amy's behaviour lately (actually almost
since the beginning of her musical existence). And it is
so because she's is just different from many crap
musicians (at least is what they call themselves) who
show off their drugs and -Oh I'm not meant for this world-
way of life. She's is definitely way above them, and from a
truly selfish point of view I really hope she recovers
(someday) so we don't have to worship another corpse
and think what would it be is she was still alive...
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