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Iceman

19-06-2011, 11:20 PM

Amy Winehouse's attempt at a European concert tour ended in Belgrade, Serbia, with a train wreck of a performance Saturday night in which she staggered around the stage and stumbled through several songs.

The audience eventually chased Winehouse off the stage with loud boos several numbers into what was supposed to be the opening show in a 12-date tour.

A representative for Winehouse said her next two concert dates have been canceled.

Winehouse representative Tracey Miller did not directly confirm that the "Rehab" singer, who has a history of battling drugs and alcohol, had fallen off the wagon. Winehouse only recently left a British rehab program that a representative said was intended to prepare her for the European concerts.

"Yes, Amy has cancelled appearances in Istanbul and Athens for the coming week," Miller told CNN Sunday. "Despite feeling sure that she wanted to fulfill these commitments, she has agreed with management that she cannot perform to the best of her ability and will return home."

Video clips of the musical disaster, recorded by concert-goers' cell phone cameras, were quickly posted on YouTube. They showed Winehouse failing in every attempt to sing more than a few slurred lines of her songs. Audience members could be heard filling in the gaps, along with her back-up singers.

"She would like to apologize to fans expecting to see her at the shows but feels that this is the right thing to do," Miller said.

When Winehouse entered a rehab program at London's Priory Clinic last month, a representative told CNN that "she wants to be ready for performances in Europe this summer and decided to seek an assessment."

Rehab anyone?

InOne

19-06-2011, 11:23 PM

Bored of her now, she's never gonna come back :bored:

Iceman

19-06-2011, 11:23 PM

Actually did anyone have her in the death thread? :laugh:

Omah

19-06-2011, 11:24 PM

She's rubbish .....

Smithy

19-06-2011, 11:40 PM

Actually did anyone have her in the death thread? :laugh:

I think i did :eureka:

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

19-06-2011, 11:42 PM

new album or ****

joeysteele

19-06-2011, 11:43 PM

She came back too soon, but maybe it's time for her to call it a day now.

Stu

19-06-2011, 11:43 PM

Her management company needs to stop milking her for money. The poor girl needs serious help.

Fetch The Bolt Cutters

19-06-2011, 11:44 PM

She came back too soon, but maybe it's time for her to call it a day now.

when was this?

Iceman

20-06-2011, 12:35 PM

Her management company needs to stop milking her for money. The poor girl needs serious help.

I agree, I know people are sick of seeing her like this and complain a lot but she obviously has a very serious problem with addiction and needs a very long stint in Rehab.

Chuck

20-06-2011, 12:37 PM

Poor Amy :(
I think Kerry posted yesterday night a video of her concert in Serbia and it was a complete mess :bored:

Omah

20-06-2011, 12:39 PM

I agree, I know people are sick of seeing her like this and complain a lot but she obviously has a very serious problem with addiction and needs a very long stint in Rehab.

..... won't do her any good - she's bent on self-destruction ..... ;)

Niamh.

20-06-2011, 12:40 PM

Her management company needs to stop milking her for money. The poor girl needs serious help.

Yeah, I agree. You'd have to wonder does anyone actually care about her at all, sending her off on a tour when she's in that kind of state is madness.

Iceman

20-06-2011, 12:45 PM

..... won't do her any good - she's bent on self-destruction ..... ;)

No I doint think thats it, she's being forced to do these concerts when she's clearly in no fit state to, she needs to be sectioned and helped.

joeysteele

20-06-2011, 01:10 PM

when was this?

Okay, she tried to come back too soon.

I think as a poster said above, she needs serious help, not lip service from those around her.

Ammi

20-06-2011, 01:13 PM

So sad to see someone in that state and so publicly poor girl

Omah

20-06-2011, 01:19 PM

No I doint think thats it, she's being forced to do these concerts when she's clearly in no fit state to, she needs to be sectioned and helped.

Take it from me - some addicts don't want help ..... ;)

Ammi

20-06-2011, 01:23 PM

Take it from me - some addicts don't want help ..... ;)
I guess wanting help is the first step, otherwise she'll just end up back there again

Iceman

20-06-2011, 01:27 PM

Take it from me - some addicts don't want help ..... ;)

Yeah and some need it, Im not saying she wants it, she clearly needs.

Chuck

20-06-2011, 01:31 PM

Take it from me - some addicts don't want help ..... ;)

D:

Omah

20-06-2011, 01:32 PM

I guess wanting help is the first step, otherwise she'll just end up back there again

Absolutely ..... :)

My ex-wife went down the same route as Amy and many others - joined AA, had NHS detox and rehab, but after several emergency hospital admissions agreed to go Clouds House (http://www.actiononaddiction.org.uk/treatment/clouds_house) - she was there 6 months, came out clean and dry, but within 2 years was dead from too many relapses and eventual multiple organ failure - at the age of 40 ..... :shocked:

Ammi

20-06-2011, 01:42 PM

Absolutely ..... :)

My ex-wife went down the same route as Amy and many others - joined AA, had NHS detox and rehab, but after several emergency hospital admissions agreed to go Clouds House (http://www.actiononaddiction.org.uk/treatment/clouds_house) - she was there 6 months, came out clean and dry, but within 2 years was dead from too many relapses and eventual multiple organ failure - at the age of 40 ..... :shocked:

That's really sad, so sorry but unfortunately people can't be forced to be helped. If Daniella Westbrook's nose dropping off wasn't a clue to her that she needed to rethink her lifestyle. Anyway she did eventually, thank god, when she was ready to make that choice herself

Omah

20-06-2011, 01:52 PM

That's really sad, so sorry but unfortunately people can't be forced to be helped. If Daniella Westbrook's nose dropping off wasn't a clue to her that she needed to rethink her lifestyle. Anyway she did eventually, thank god, when she was ready to make that choice herself

After losing her "career" and her money, Kerry Katona was given a new "lease of life" this year - what has she done with it ?

Wasted it by preferring to drink herself to vomiting point ..... :rolleyes:

Like I said, some addicts ..... :(

Jords

20-06-2011, 02:30 PM

Silly cow ruining her life.

joeysteele

20-06-2011, 11:38 PM

Mrluvaluva

21-06-2011, 12:28 AM

I saw some clips today from her concert on Saturday. She ain't ever gonna change. Surprised she hasn't self destructed by now.

Iceman

21-06-2011, 06:10 PM

Amy Winehouse has cancelled her entire European tour in the wake of her much-maligned performance in Belgrade on Saturday.

It was confirmed on Sunday that Winehouse had canceled performances in Istanbul and Athens this week after being booed at the Belgrade concert for slurring her words and appearing incoherent throughout the performance.

The 'Rehab' singer has now officially canceled all 12 dates of her upcoming tour, which would have seen Winehouse perform in Austria, Italy, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Romania and Hungary throughout the summer.

"Amy Winehouse is withdrawing from all scheduled performances," the singer's spokesman confirmed. "Everyone involved wishes to do everything they can to help her return to her best and she will be given as long as it takes for this to happen."

Following a short stint in the London Priory clinic at the end of May to treat her addiction to alcohol, Winehouse is now said to be continuing her treatment as an outpatient.

Winehouse has yet to release any new material since her 2006 Grammy Award-winning album Back to Black.

Niall

21-06-2011, 06:14 PM

Idec about this stupid alchy anymore. :bored: She pisses me off doing this bull**** all the time. Why can't she go away, actually get better then return, record an album and actually tour when she's physically capable? Its like she wants all these headlines. -_-

Iceman

21-06-2011, 06:19 PM

It didnt look to me like she wanted to be there so I'd hardly say she wants all this?

Pyramid*

21-06-2011, 06:37 PM

Take it from me - some addicts don't want help ..... ;)

Absolutely true. And my sympathies Omah, I know only too well the road you've travelled.

If addicts do not want help, no matter what 'they need' (help I mean) - they need to recognise they need help, and want the help, and want to work at it.

Some simply are too far gone to realise the difference and have neither the want or care.

I hate to say it, but I truly believe this is one young woman who simply will never recognise when she has hit rock bottom. I seriously doubt she will ever fully recover.

joeysteele

21-06-2011, 06:40 PM

Absolutely true. And my sympathies Omah, I know only too well the road you've travelled.

If addicts do not want help, no matter what 'they need' (help I mean) - they need to recognise they need help, and want the help, and want to work at it.

Some simply are too far gone to realise the difference and have neither the want or care.

I hate to say it, but I truly believe this is one young woman who simply will never recognise when she has hit rock bottom. I seriously doubt she will ever fully recover.

I don't think she will either Pyramid.

Pyramid*

21-06-2011, 06:56 PM

I don't think she will either Pyramid.

Same path as others who have come, gone and on their way out: George Best, Gazza to name two. Talented but with their own demons. I see this being a recurring theme and most likely, it won't be the booze it will kill her, it'll be an overdose / suicide or massive organ failure. Sad, but a real possibility.

Zippy

21-06-2011, 07:11 PM

Kerry

21-06-2011, 08:09 PM

The videos are vanishing off YouTube like hotcakes (no surprise) but yes, I did post one the other night

I've found this but it won't stream for me. Think my 'nets on a slowgo

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cub

21-06-2011, 08:35 PM

She clearly has the hots for one of the backing singers.

I think the record company and her management have exploited the 'tortured Amy' image to a large extent ever since Rehab, in an effort to iconise her to all the other legendary torchered singers from the old days.

But all this on-the-wagon/off-the-wagon has just made her look boring - plus there's no new product. I'm tired of Back to Black and Valerie now. Where's the new album?

The worst thing to happen to Amy Winehouse career was boredom. And it's now that's happened, so buh-bye.

Plus: We have Adele now.

Niall

21-06-2011, 08:41 PM

Jesus I thought she'd be better than the mess she is in that video up there. :bored:

Kerry

21-06-2011, 08:48 PM

Jesus I thought she'd be better than the mess she is in that video up there. :bored:

Believe it or not, I think that was one of her better performances of the night...... The one I saw she was sitting on the speakers and alsorts. How she stayed upright I'll never know......

Stu

21-06-2011, 08:57 PM

I have good faith that she will recover eventually. Most people do. I know it's popular to naysay and declare that those in the public eye on this path are going to stay on the path because it sounds all authorative and obvious but it's been demonstrably proven that the majority of people change.

Music has far more reformed dinosaurs than dead heroes.

Iceman

21-06-2011, 11:45 PM

AMY WINEHOUSE has been retired by her bosses and won't be appearing on stage again "for years".

Her manager has finally laid down the law after she sneaked a stash of booze backstage before embarrassing herself in Belgrade, Serbia, at the weekend.

RAY COSBERT has always refused to tell her how to live her life - arguing it's not his place to do so.

But for the sake of her health he's stepped in and has retired her from performing "indefinitely". A source close to the singer said: "It has been hard for Ray to watch her get into trouble over the years.

"There's only so much he can do - but enough's enough.

"She's going away and this time it could be for years."

All the remaining 11 European tour dates have been cancelled and Amy is facing another long period in rehab.

Sadly it's not the first time we've been here - humiliation has become more common than chart success for Amy.

But why does it keep happening? Why can't her family sort things out?

Ask any parent who has been through the horror of having a son or daughter with addiction issues - they will tell you how hard it is to intervene.

But it's time for extreme measures.

Ray has dedicated more than a decade of his life to making the hugely talented singer he calls "my girl" a success.

But he's not her dad or a sibling and how do you tell a millionaire how to live her personal life?

This has to be the final humiliation - she needs an extended break, away from London with full-time care.

It may take years - but she can afford it.

What she can't afford is for the pantomime to continue.

If it does, we all know it won't end happily ever after.

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/3649299/Amy-Winehouse-They-said-Go-Go-Go.html#ixzz1PxPQ63i6

Omah

22-06-2011, 12:22 AM

Good riddance .....

Iceman

22-06-2011, 12:24 AM

Its the absolute best thing for her though which is good, if she never makes another album again i dont mind so long as the woman gets the help she so desperately needs

Kerry

22-06-2011, 12:33 AM

I'm not sure I can see her getting help but I'd hope she would

Iceman

22-06-2011, 12:34 AM

So do I Kerry, I hope at least the press wont keep following her (I'm not saying that she doesnt want that, but for her recovery it would be the best thing if they just blanked her completely)

Iceman

22-06-2011, 11:18 AM

Amy Winehouse was pushed on stage drunk despite not wanting to perform in Belgrade, according to a witness backstage.

Winehouse was booed at the concert over the weekend after slurring the words to her songs and appearing lost and incoherent while on stage in Belgrade.

The 27-year-old singer has subsequently cancelled all of her remaining European tour dates following the incident, with her team adamant to help the star return to health.

However, Ana Zoe Kida - whose group Zemlja Gruva shared the bill with Winehouse in Belgrade - told The Sun: "Four British bodyguards simply pushed her to step up on stage.

"She did not want to and was making a scene trying to escape them. It was distressing to see, she obviously needed help."

Source: DS

:(

Pyramid*

22-06-2011, 08:37 PM

Believe it or not, I think that was one of her better performances of the night...... The one I saw she was sitting on the speakers and alsorts. How she stayed upright I'll never know......

Sounds very much like the youtube clip I saw: staggered onto stage, went over to cuddle into band member, staggered toward speaker, tried to take shoe off, sat on speaker (back to audience), took one shoe off, tried to stand up, staggered all over, tried to take shoe off, bend double to steady herself on speaker. took shoe off chucked it towards audience, went over to 2nd black band member (all the while, band were trying to play her in with drummer - trying hard to smile which then dissapated), this 2nd backing singer that she went to cuddle, he gently grabbed her hand and asked if she was okay. He leads her toward the mike...... then the incoherent rambling started - with her sniffing and wiping under her nose, then picking at her right arm - then started clawing at her left arm.

Completely and utterly out of her head - and I defy anyone to say it was just booze.... the clip showed her looking right into the 'camera' that was taking this particular clip - and her eyes were rolling all over the place.

Stu

22-06-2011, 09:05 PM

Kerry

22-06-2011, 11:01 PM

Sounds very much like the youtube clip I saw: staggered onto stage, went over to cuddle into band member, staggered toward speaker, tried to take shoe off, sat on speaker (back to audience), took one shoe off, tried to stand up, staggered all over, tried to take shoe off, bend double to steady herself on speaker. took shoe off chucked it towards audience, went over to 2nd black band member (all the while, band were trying to play her in with drummer - trying hard to smile which then dissapated), this 2nd backing singer that she went to cuddle, he gently grabbed her hand and asked if she was okay. He leads her toward the mike...... then the incoherent rambling started - with her sniffing and wiping under her nose, then picking at her right arm - then started clawing at her left arm.

Completely and utterly out of her head - and I defy anyone to say it was just booze.... the clip showed her looking right into the 'camera' that was taking this particular clip - and her eyes were rolling all over the place.

Yeah, thats what I saw. Seems it (or most of the show) has been taken offline now

I'm not sure if she was just drunk or drunk and high or what. Definately had a skinful. Part of me wants to say we've all made mistakes. All shown ourselves up at somepoint and feel so sorry for her as she seems very isolated but of course you have the nagging 'try and sort it out lass' :(

Kerry

22-06-2011, 11:04 PM

Booze can do that. I'm not saying she's clean of everything else but I see nothing from her in those clips that booze alone can't do and by all accounts it's replaced crack as her big problem drug because it's the one she can't seem to quit.

Yeah, booze alone can certainly get someone in that state. I've been there many moons ago. Godknows how much vodka I'd drank on that night out but it was apparently fine to throw myself AT a taxi to stop it.....

I almost admire Amy for staying upright :joker:

joeysteele

22-06-2011, 11:04 PM

I agree with Kerry and Pyramid and as Pyramid said on another thread, she is in need of serious help, sadly the people she likely has around her are not the people she really needs at this time in her life. How sad and what a waste.

Vicky.

22-06-2011, 11:11 PM

Kerry

22-06-2011, 11:16 PM

This is going to sound really heartless...but I find it hard to feel sorry for people who are in that state via their own doing. And I dont think she wants help either. Needs it, yeah, but doesnt want it.

Not heartless. Just honest

I am a little mystified why she did it more than anything else. I mean, you know you're about to do a concert...... Dutch courage, fair enough but thats not Dutch courage

Vicky.

22-06-2011, 11:18 PM

Not heartless. Just honest

I am a little mystified why she did it more than anything else. I mean, you know you're about to do a concert...... Dutch courage, fair enough but thats not Dutch courage
Exactly

Everyones meant to feel sorry for the poor little girl. When its her own damn fault. Of course they made her go on...people had paid to see her, and she will have known about the concert ages in advance too...not like they just told her that morning.

Kerry

22-06-2011, 11:27 PM

InOne

22-06-2011, 11:28 PM

Hasn't she only had one good album? Like I know she's done a few but wasn't it only one that got big? One could argue she was a flash in the pan anyway...

Kerry

22-06-2011, 11:31 PM

Hasn't she only had one good album? Like I know she's done a few but wasn't it only one that got big? One could argue she was a flash in the pan anyway...

I've never liked her stuff or her really. Don't like seeing people crash though

Vicky.

22-06-2011, 11:32 PM

I have a feeling her management etc. like her being a mess.

Keeps her in the limelight doesnt it. Not like she really has the talent to last without some kind of controversy :/

Kerry

22-06-2011, 11:34 PM

I have a feeling her management etc. like her being a mess.

Keeps her in the limelight doesnt it. Not like she really has the talent to last without some kind of controversy :/

Just had a similar thought actually

Stu

22-06-2011, 11:41 PM

Hasn't she only had one good album? Like I know she's done a few but wasn't it only one that got big? One could argue she was a flash in the pan anyway...
To be fair she had the first critically acclaimed, high selling album and then the second ... critically acclaimed, high selling album. The debut and the breakthrough.

I'd hardly call her recording career inconsistent. It obviously stopped dead though.

joeysteele

22-06-2011, 11:42 PM

Actually, the more I think about it.... why didn't any of those backing singers/band stop her? Why did nobody at all stop her going on? Who on earth let her actually walk on that stage in the first place? Surely her fans would have rather had her cancel than humiliate herself? You can't tell me NOBODY saw she was in a state before she actually got onstage

I don't feel sorry for her except in that these people always have the wrong people around them when they need to have the right people there and because she knows them she feels safe with them despite all evidence to the contrary .

The people who let her go on despite her state, (and of course she herself is more to blame for even attempting this while she is still in the state she is),those people make money from her, they know Amy had stage presence to her strong fans at any rate, that normally would mean she could do almost anything and get away with it,they will have thought she would just be accepted despite the mess she was in and that would be that,it backfired heavily and I'm pleased it has.

Whether that will make her really throw all the bad influences out of her life and really get herself sorted I doubt that completely,however it will be the only way she has any hope though of getting anywhere near sorting herself out at all.

bbfan1991

22-06-2011, 11:43 PM

She has the talent but her own fault things have ended up this way, a shame really:(.

cub

22-06-2011, 11:43 PM

I've already said all that.

23-06-2011, 04:38 PM

This is going to sound really heartless...but I find it hard to feel sorry for people who are in that state via their own doing. And I dont think she wants help either. Needs it, yeah, but doesnt want it.

That's my opinion on her too. She's not really my cup of tea but I do like Back to Black, I just think it's ridiculous that people are still harping on about her being a trainwreck when she's been a trainwreck for the past, what, four years? She's barely done anything new musically in the past four years to my knowledge and it's just sad to see someone become more notorious for their problems than for their talent, when she is a very talented woman. But as others have said, some people don't want help and some people can't be helped, I'm not sure which of those two she is but I disagree with Eoin (I think it was) who said he hopes the press leave her alone - I think that might send her into an even worse frame of mind if she thinks everyone's forgotten all about her, depends on her perception of her own image I guess. She's tragic and I think she needs to be forced to go away for a very, very long time.

Omah

28-06-2011, 09:19 AM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-13880593

The ex-husband of singer Amy Winehouse has been jailed for 32 months for carrying out a burglary "while in the grip of heroin addiction".

Blake Fielder-Civil and Christopher Sylvester, both 29, raided the home of Paul Maplesden in Rawdon, Leeds.

The two men made off with electrical items, including an Xbox and DVD player, and jewellery worth £4,000.

Fielder-Civil has a conviction for causing grievous bodily harm and one for a drug offence in another country.

'Professional burglary'

Fielder-Civil, of Sleaford, Lincolnshire, and Sylvester, of Roundhay Park in Leeds, were equipped with a hammer, black tape, balaclavas and gloves when they raided Mr Maplesden's family home.

A fake handgun was found under the passenger seat of the car the two men had driven to the scene of the burglary but was not used in the daytime raid, Leeds Crown Court was told.

The fake firearm and haul of stolen goods were recovered after a policeman, who was on duty nearby, noticed the two men acting suspiciously and went to investigate, the court heard.

Mr Maplesden had left to go to work and his children were at school when the raid took place.

The items were stashed in the boot of the car and were recovered and returned to the homeowner.

Both men admitted possessing an imitation gun and burgling a dwelling.

Judge Scott Wolstenholme said the offences were "very serious", adding that they went equipped for a "serious, professional burglary".

Jailing them both, he said: "This case illustrates the depth people will sink when in the grip of heroin addiction.

"It is no comfort to people who are preyed on by drug addicts that the people preying on them are drug addicts."

Black tape

He said he accepted the fake weapon was not taken on the raid but remained in the vehicle and had been acquired by Sylvester to protect himself from drug dealers who had attacked him in the past.

Fielder-Civil mouthed "thank you" to the judge as he was sentenced.

Prosecuting, Alisha Kaye said: "A police officer saw the defendants walking up the road, he became suspicious and saw the two men disappear but reappeared in the car parked nearby. The defendants were sat in the car."

She added: "Mr Maplesden returned home to find his property had been burgled that teatime."

She said black tape had been used to alter the number plate on the vehicle.

Sylvester has 31 previous convictions, including offences involving drugs, violence and burglary.

Fielder-Civil, a former music video assistant, married Winehouse in May 2007 but the couple divorced in 2009.

I guess that won't please Amy .....

cub

26-07-2011, 03:33 PM

I feel bad about my rather harsh comments on this thread. But I do stand by what I said at the time - people were getting bored of the constant reports about her recovery/decline/recovery/decline. I blame the media.

Livia

26-07-2011, 03:52 PM

I'm sure eveyone feels justified in what they've said; smug, even. You know... how she chose to be like that, how she could have helped herself but didn't... It's very easy to set yourself up as judge and jury when you know nothing about her, her history or her habit. It's also easy to make assumptions from the security of the moral high ground. Of course, no one here has ever moved in her circles or has any conception of what it must be like to be young and famous. How many talented, creative people over the years have died through drink and drugs? Addiction isn't a new thing. If it was so easy for everyone to steer clear, why is there still a problem? Unless it goes deeper than that; unless the answer isn't as simple as "just say no", because if it was, there would be no addicts, no lives destroyed by drink and drugs.

The Arts is littered with addicts, many of which have given us some of the best art, literature, music etc. that we have. But they did it to themselves, right? No sympathy.