Such a Shame

Firstly sorry about my abscence..there has been so much going on at home and coupled with bouts of illness with everyone it's been a hard couple of weeks. But last night was an event i have been looking forward to for weeks, the Amy Winehouse gig at the Eden project. It was a toss up whether or not she'd turn up after cancelling a lot of gigs at short notice the last couple of weeks but as the Eden project said it was on we ventured down and got there at about 4, in time to hear and watch the sound checks including Amy coming on for a couple of songs.

In my mind there is no doubt that this woman is the greatest british female talent for years, possibly ever...and as 9.30 came, the 6,000 strong crowd were going crazy. On she came and although she looked scrawny and weak, she bantered with the crowd and belted out around 4 songs with that amazing voice of hers....then she disappeared off stage...only for around a minute, maybe two. It was clear after she'd come back that there was somethng wrong, she cried through the next two tracks, started slurring...several times she smacked herself in the forehead deliberately with the mic and at one stage she even slapped herself across the face. The deterioration was unbelieveable and it was really sad to see. About 45 minutes into an hour and a half set...she swore at someone, spat towards the crowd and walked off. The band followed a minute later. After about 10 minutes, she came back on and looking at one of the guys on her left shouted 'lets just do f***ing 'Valerie' and that's it!'. She did, slurred and then they all disappeared. Some peope were peed off, obviously you don't like paying money to see half a show...but you could see the sadness in most peoples eyes.....she obviously has MAJOR personal issues and i hope to god that she manages to sort out her demons before her career goes down the pan...or even worse.

On another note, i've decided to scrap the scrap it challenge as i just wasn't getting enough entries to justify carrying it on. I will however be sending both entrants this month a little goody bag for having a go at it.