Amy Winehouse

I'm a music-lover. If you take a look at my profile you can see I know a band for every letter in the alphabet. I like most styles of music, from heavy metal over rock, pop, blues, electro... Mostly I like singers who really can sing, who have a very distinctive voice. Amongst my favourite singers are David Coverdale (Whitesnake, ex-Deep Purple), Fredy Mercury, Joss Stone - and Amy Winehouse.

Exactly that artist played at the sold-out Volkshaus in Zurich lately. Tickets were hard to get, and I considered going to Zurich just to see if there's a chance to get a ticket on the street.

Fortunately I didn't go.

Amy Winehouse is a 24 year old British soul singer with a 'golden voice'. In the song 'Rehab' she sings about being told to go to a drug-rehabilitation, which she refuses to do. She should better think again, otherwise she'll end up like Janis Joplin, whom she's being compared with: JJ died in 1970 at the age of 27 because of drugs.

This is - in broad strokes - what newspapers and radiostations reported about the show:

Amy Winehouse was completely caned and only able to perform 4 (!) songs in Zurich, before she was taken off stage by her worried husband. After the first two songs she left the stage for some treatment and only came back after some 10 minutes. Her band must have been very embarrassed that the show already ended after 50 minutes.

This is Amy Winehouse performing 'Back to Black' at the BBC Sessions:



And this is her performance of the same song in Zurich, totaly deranged:



A spokesman of 'Good News Entertainment', the organizer of the concert, stated that they won't invite her to Switzerland again, unless she's got herself - and especially her handling of alcohol and other dangerous stuff - under control. In my opinion that's a fair deal, since the audience must have been really upset after that 'concert'.

If you read this, Amy: I won't have a drink on you, but I really hope you're changing she lyrics of your song soon:

'They try to make me go to rehab
And I said yes, yes, yes!'

And then I'll come to your next show here in Switzerland.

I'm alive!

Yes, of course I am. The reason for my long absence wasn't holiday - it was actually work. As we have put up the new product range for next year we had exhibitions at our company, which lead to many weekends on duty. The whole thing is over now, and I will have time to write again. Stay tuned!