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Glastonbury Update: Amy Winehouse's Devil in a Blue Dress Burns Up the Pyramid Stage

01 July 2008

Amy Winehouse answered the Glastonbury festival's most-asked question: would she show up? with a resounding 'yes!'. Amy even came close to making Pete Doherty look like an angel with her antics on the Pyramid Stage during day two of the Glastonbury music Festival, near Glastonbury, England on Saturday June 28, 2008. It all began well with Amy tottering out in a femme fatal sequined blue dress with big cleavage and a huge smile, looking radiant and over the moon to be performing after last week's spell in the hospital. She was all giggles about her wardrobe choice, saying: 'It took three women to get me into this dress. Girls, isn't it funny how it takes so long to get ready but no time to get undressed. What's that all about?' It took a few songs for Amy to shake off the nerves, but her voice was powerful and flawless.

The set kicked off with 'Addicted', the only song on her 'Back to Black' album not inspired by her husband Blake Fielder-Civil, and then 'Tears Dry on Their Own' and 'You Know I'm No Good'. Her beehive then got stuck in her guitar strap and had to be freed by a roadie. Despite rambling on about her husband and

Amy was like a tornado gathering momentum. She belted out three covers: a Toots and the Maytals' Monkey Man, Sam Cooke's soul classic Cupid and her 'favourite song from last year' the Zutons' Valerie.

Then everything went haywire. Before launching into 'Hey Little Rich Girl' Amy shocked the crowd by ordering them to welcome Jay-Z and told everyone to be grateful they weren't getting Kanye West as he is a 'c***'.

There had been debates as to whether hip-hop artists belonged at the traditionally rock-based Glastonbury Festival, with Oasis' Noel Gallagher being vocal about hip-hop not fitting in with the program. But others, including Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis and his daughter Emily have said that it is time Glastonbury welcomed hip-hop and other audiences to the festival. Amy finally rose to the occasion and burned the stage down with her explosive finale performance of 'Rehab', jumping off stage into the pit, stumbling around, lapping it up in the energy of the crowd. It was all bliss and wonderment until she appeared to punch an audience member. No one can deny that Amy Winehouse put out another high octane performance on the Pyramid stage that will probably go down in Glastonbury history.


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