Amy Winehouse has been a mess for a number of years now. As soon as she found fame and fortune it seemed to go straight to her head and set her off on a whirlwind descent into drink, drugs, and destruction.

She has spent the last six months or so relaxing in St. Lucia, having decided to take a break from performing live. She was meant to have written and recorded material for her new album in that time but that doesn’t seem to have happened.

Winehouse made her live comeback last night at the St. Lucia Jazz Festival, an annual event now in its 18th year. Unfortunately, it all ended a little prematurely and her appearance wasn’t quite the return to form we’d all hoped for.

Winehouse did manage an hour-long set which included 14 songs. However, she forgot her words on a number of different occasions, constantly looked about to fall over, mumbled to herself throughout, and altogether failed to deliver the goods.

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Brit Music Scene has been a bit of an Amy Winehouse-free zone for the past month or so, partly because some readers requested less frequent reports on every facet of her life, and partly because she hasn’t actually done anything for weeks, having been out of the newspapers for some considerable time.

Winehouse was taken to a London hospital suffering from a chest infection last week, but is now back at home and thought to be on the road to recovery. She’s reportedly not well enough yet to have met up with husband Blake Fielder-Civil who was released from jail today (November 5th, 2008).

Fielder-Civil has straight away entered rehab as part of his release conditions and is unlikely to meet up with Winehouse for some time. Meanwhile, she is thought to be back at home working (finally) on her new album, which is well overdue with Back To Black having been released over two years ago now.

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The chances of a new album from Amy Winehouse being released in 2008 took a downward turn today when it emerged that the singer had cancelled a recording session in the Bahamas.

According the The Sun, Island Records had booked a trip to the Bahamas for Winehouse, where she was meant to start laying down the bulk of her new album with producer Saleem Remi.

Remi is the man behind Winehouse’ first album Frank, and also had a big hand in the hugely successful Back To Black, which although being released back in 2006, is still Top Ten in the UK Album Charts.

Winehouse decided not to go on the trip, and is instead spending time in the studio with friend and producer Mark Ronson working on the theme tune for Quantum Of Solace, the new James Bond film.

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