I just got back from St. Lucia where I was booked to photograph Amy Winehouse’s live “comeback” at this year’s St. Lucia Jazz-Fest. No real Jazz musicians ever play these festivals but Amy has been living on the island for the last few months writing new material so she was the perfect person to headline it. Recent photos suggested she was doing better and she was booked to take part in Island Records’ 50th anniversary, so the pressure was on. Backstage I heard she’d written an all reggae album, which Island had refused to release. Locals in the crowd also told me how it easy it was to get drugs on the island and how Amy had been spotted out and about, railing in public.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, I can tell you that Amy Winehouse is as fucked up as she’s ever been. She stumbled onstage and immediately started wailing and skatting to replace forgotten lyrics. Is there a person in the world that doesn’t know all the words to “Rehab?” She wore a tiny blue skirt, which showed her knickers every time she bent over for a drink, which was at least 17 times. I later discovered she has a guy whose main job is to fill up her glass with rum and coke. What a great job to have in this economy.
In between songs she’d stare into the crowd, grab at her dress, scratch her legs, and secretly pray she was back at the hotel doing smack. When she got bored of doing a few messy ska covers (I could have sworn I heard her say “Crack Rock Steady”) she cut her band off and removed her shoes before blabbing incoherently to the crowd. Then she spat chewing gum at them. Ugh. When even the stage lights gave up on her and decided to short circuit, the crowd began to boo. Amy walked off in a rage but instantly came stomping back and hollered, “We may have lost the power but we haven’t lost THE POWER!” Seeing a tiny Ronnie Spector dressed as a cartoon chicken that screams Chuck D anthems went far beyond ridiculous and became – boring.
So what next for Amy Winehouse? I would guess nothing at all. This just goes on and on until we stop caring. Look at Pete Doherty’s career. Did you know he’s a drug addict? Yes. Did you know he just put out a new solo album? No, me neither and I’m one of the few people still in contact with the guy. The world made it clear they wanted a sassy, 50s chick who refuses to get clean but they got way more than they bargained for. Ooops!
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Hey Lady Cadaver,
The next time someone suggests you go to rehab, think about it for longer than it takes to heat a spoon with a disposable lighter.
05.11.09 at 9:33 am
You guys don’t get her, it’s all about style.
She’s going for Holocaust Victim Chic, trés chic indeed.
05.11.09 at 10:15 am
Cmon Crak isnt addictive,
ITS GREAT
05.11.09 at 10:48 am
are six nearly identical pictures really necessary?
05.11.09 at 10:57 am
Oh yeah!! Amy’s back and in charge of things! I see nothing but a bright future for this fine young lady!
05.11.09 at 11:36 am
Knock it off ;shes hard-core!
05.11.09 at 11:54 am
Might I suggest an ESL course.
05.11.09 at 11:56 am
these photos are terrrrrrrrrible
05.11.09 at 12:10 pm
Just filthy.
05.11.09 at 12:29 pm
A pox on baggy white undies. But better than nothing at all…
05.11.09 at 1:09 pm
what am i looking at under her dress? a diaper? it is isnt it?
05.11.09 at 1:47 pm
^ get off me ws @ 11:54
I love watching this trainwreck
05.11.09 at 2:12 pm
Good article. I like how the pictures of her evoke the concept of vomit and herpes.
05.11.09 at 2:32 pm
yikez
05.11.09 at 3:47 pm
Gl. Prof. All American male seeks cracked out one hit wonder for LTR.
Trainwrecks ok, STD’s are a +.
Maybe we can meet up, take a stroll in riverside park, watch the sunset and share a needle?
Must be ok with children and the elderly.
05.11.09 at 4:39 pm
I would still fuck her.
05.11.09 at 7:39 pm
Well I know Pete Doherty has a solo album out and I don’t even know the guy. You sound like a shitty friend. Doherty and Winehouse are not in the same league at all.
05.11.09 at 8:34 pm
shit son I’ve been waiting for a new album (yeah I liked it, I am not too cool to like it donut worry) and this “news” isnt surprising but still a bummer. like getting a C on that essay you completed the night before but at least proofread before handing in.
05.11.09 at 10:37 pm
I whanna kiss the meth out of her mouth.
05.12.09 at 1:59 am
Hey Medina,
how come you always get on the tropical gigs?
great post.
05.12.09 at 3:30 am
[...] forgotten lyrics,” says a photographer hired to shoot her “comeback” show. In a post on Street Carnage, photographer Jamie-James Medina – who attended the St Lucia Jazz Festival – says that she’s [...]
05.12.09 at 5:54 am
i’ve never listened to her. is she famous for going to rehab?
05.12.09 at 7:49 am
This reads like a British tabloid.
05.12.09 at 9:33 am
Amy Winehouse is the last real rock star left….and she’s a crack head jew who sounds like a fat black woman in Harlem.
05.12.09 at 1:18 pm
this is not street carnage worthy. If we need some real musicians to talk about start with a band called Selfish Cunt.
05.12.09 at 2:17 pm
^^hahahahahahahaha!!!!
05.12.09 at 6:21 pm
She is trash!
05.22.09 at 10:15 pm
She s a great women, I Love her. I want her whith me in Brazil
06.06.10 at 9:00 am