Amy Winehouse Punches Fan | Incident Puts Blemish On Brilliant Glastonbury Set
June 29, 2008 by Dave Parrack
Amy Winehouse managed to show up for two gigs in two days, and put on incredible performances at both the Nelson Mandela Birthday bash in London on Friday, and the Glastonbury Festival on Saturday. However, she put a black mark on her record by punching fan while performing Rehab, the last song of her set at Glastonbury.
Wiehouse’ performance was a huge success, with a crowd estimated to be around 80,000 turning out to watch her show. Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis suggested that this was the biggest crowd ever to watch an artist perform on the Pyramid Stage.
Everything was going fantastically well until during Rehab, Winehouse decided to leave the stage to go and mingle in amongst the front rows of the crowd. That is when the following happened, an incident which ensured her the Sunday newspaper headlines yet again.
The footage isn’t very clear, with a bouncer in the way, and the camera not focussed on the crowd to see what the provocation was which prompted that behaviour.
Winehouse’ spokesperson claimed that a fan tried to grab the singer’s famous beehive, while according to the NME, Eavis defended her by saying:
“It was a shame what happened at the end, someone put their hands on her boob. “Come on! That’s not on. He deserved it, he put his hands on her breasts!”
If that is true then that fan deserved to be dealt with but it wasn’t really Winehouse’ responsibility to take vigilante justice in to her own hands. She also should have avoided jumping in to the pit between the stage and the crowd and then none of this would have ever happened.
Once again, Winehouse’ brilliant on-stage performance has been overshadowed by an unfortunate incident. But at least she showed she can still sing despite having been diagnosed with the early stages of emphysema. Which is something I suppose.
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