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Amy Winehouse was let out of the “virtual prison” that is her home (I say that with marked sarcasm) to perform at the Rock in Rio music festival yesterday. Amy’s record label let her off her leash – or maybe just got one of those invisible fences people use to keep their dogs from wandering – to perform her third concert in a week. By most accounts she did a decent job – but she openly drank red wine throughout her performance. Because having a couple drinks is much, much more important than doing a good job performing for people who spent a lot of money to see you. And it’s more important than your career. Or your life.
Soul diva Amy Winehouse sipped from a glass of red wine and looked a bit unsteady on her feet as she appeared in front of a large audience at the Rock in Rio music festival southeast of Madrid on Friday.
Then, as tens of thousands cheered, she threw off a pair of high stiletto heels in favor of white moccasins, donned a white electric guitar and settled into an intense rendition of some of her best known songs, including “Rehab.”
Winehouse delivered a strong vocal performance accompanied by her octet plus two male backing vocalists.
Once finished at Rock in Rio, she did not stay for an encore and left the outdoor concert venue by helicopter.
[From the Huffington Post]
There’s a new website out there that has people guess when Amy will die. The winner gets an iPod or something. I know it’s meant to be funny, but I think that’s pretty crass. Clearly the girl needs all sorts of help, and it’s hard to have much faith that she’ll be able to get her act together anymore. Every two weeks we hear some proclamation about how she finally gets how badly off she is, and she’s ready to change. And of course nothing comes of it. But there’s a big difference between losing hope and essentially placing a wager on when someone will die.
Here’s Amy Winehouse out in Golders Green looking for her favorite snacks. The troubled singer popped into one shop and was given a gherkin to try, which she smudged on the glass counter - then bizarrely cleaned it off with her rear. Although to be fair, that’s not the weirdest thing we’ve seen her do. Images thanks to Splash.
Update by Celebitchy: Here are photos of Amy drinking on Friday on stage at the Rock in Rio festival. The images Jaybird mentioned are at the end of this set. Thanks to WENN.
And here are the videos, thanks to user tejeral on YouTube:
Rock in Rio Madrid 2008 - Amy Winehouse - Part-1
Rock in Rio Madrid 2008 - Amy Winehouse - Part-2
Rock in Rio Madrid 2008 - Amy Winehouse - Part-3
Written by JayBird
Posted in Addictions, Alcohol, Amy Winehouse, Concerts, Drunk
23 Responses to “Amy Winehouse drinks onstage at Rock in Rio (update: pictures & video)”
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Yeah, xiaoecho, Winehouse’s voice was sacrificed to the Crack God. Her performance was tight, but her voice has seen better days. I’m surprised that this Madrid concert didn’t get as much press.
I guess the press figured she might be f’d up, so why bother?
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Crux - Will she get her vocal chords back if she stays off the pipe? wouldn’t have a clue, having never indulged in the stuff.
The crowd didn’t give a damn what she sounded like
she really has become Janis-esque
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Glad she did good
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True, xiao, those gerbils were cheering when she was sucking down the wine.
As far as the voice, only time will tell. She’s got to lay of the smokes, though. Winehouse needs the cigs to soothe her nerves. Booze sometimes screws up the voice, too.
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Her hand doesn’t ever seem to match with her body, does it? In the thumbnail, I thought it was some guy fixing her hair.
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This woman needs someone to scrub her down with bleach. I don’t understand the fascination……….
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I don’t get the shocked reaction about people taking bets on when she’ll kick it - you’ve never heard of a ‘dead pool’ (yeah, that’s where they ripped the name off for that Clint Eastwood movie) before?
There’s a whole lot of different ways of doing it, but the bottom line is that it’s like any other office or bar pool about sports, except you’re picking who’s most likely going to die in what month/year, ect.
I mean, I see how it can be viewed as crass, but everyone is going to die some time - and this has been going on for a LONG time.
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I’m sick of looking at the paraphernalia den on top of her head. Bleach is not a strong enough chemical to clean this one up. She has become a caricature of her former self. I’m sure if she’d like to donate some blood she could sell it for quite a high price at the local crack den. Hell, people wouldn’t even have to shoot up or snort the the real thing, they could just set up the IV and let the full potency of several different drugs flow directly into their veins.
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I think it’s silly what the media implies by saying she looked unsteady on her feet. The Spain concert (though clearly showing how she’s destroyed her voice), was one of the most sober performances she’s given in ages. Those darned stilettos she was wearing were more of a health hazzard than anything else she was doing onstage. Those shoes were the perfect example why I boycotted buying high heels for part of 2007 AND 2008: all the shoe trends point in the direction of ridiculous skyscraper heels that are great to look at, but impossible to keep on for longer than a half hour. I’m surprised Winehouse didn’t twist an ankle or fall on her face with those things on.
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I think that she is a terrible ssite to vision and she is a disgrace to all women, she looks to be stone on every occasion.
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Sigh…..Oh, Amy, Amy, Amy!
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Crux……
er, thanx –I was looking 4 her hip bones as a reference but THEY’RE NOT THERE
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why is she rubbing her STD-ridden ass on the foodcase? stupid twat.
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Wtf…i couldnt understand a word she sang
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I loathe Amy Winehouse’s attitude but I loooooove her two yummy backup singers! I want me a piece of those two! They should leave Amy and do their own thing. They are beyond yummy!
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More in the Trainwreckular Life of Amy Winehouse: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/article1387679.ece
Xiao: She never fails to amaze. I just saw George Clinton w/Parliament Funkadelic. Those folks are old and slow, and they gave a tighter and more energetic performance than a singer that’s old enough to be their granddaughter.
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Wow, can’t she hear herself? Why is she still performing? Why do people still hire her? I have so many questions….
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the playing with pulling up the dress is very stressfull to me.
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Anne: The more Winehouse drank, the worse she sounded. Towards the end, when she sang Valerie, it turned into Kareoke Night at Bennigan’s.
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An utter, pure, 100% pig. In every way.
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Those truffles in Carmellis are so addictive!!!!! Can’t blame a girl
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One more tatoo, and she’d make a great lampshade for the outhouse. Why is the Jewishness such a media feature? I, for one, would like to downplay it.
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She was actually relatively with it in Madrid- though her voice was shit
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