On the eve of Amy Winehouse’s plans to contribute backing vocals to her goddaughter Dionne Bromfield’s performance on BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing programme to-morrow, the singer’s record label Island Records have announced that the singer expects to have a new album in 2010
The Amy Winehouse camp claim that media reports about her health are “overblown”, and that she has no plans to pull any of her live appearances, which include Oxegen in July.
Not quite the knockout that ‘Rehab’ was but this title track to her second album is already familiar to radio listeners and should do equally well. What’s not to like about it? Her Billie Holiday/Nina Simone/Shirley Bassey vocals, the sensual Motown-like groove and a melody that at times recalls the Supremes’ ‘Baby Love’ makes it irresistible.
First kisses, hanging with the hip-hop aristocracy and why life is better on the wagon are some of the topics for conversation as Hot Press hitches a ride on the tour bus with domestic goddess and soapy bath enthusiast Amy Winehouse.
Annual article: Soul sensation Amy Winehouse has the voice of a fallen angel and the mouth of a docker. And that’s before she’s even got a few vodkas into her.
Certain male members of the Hot Press crew are jolly excited that the drug necking, beer swilling, tattoo displaying Amy Winehouse is playing a Dublin Ambassador headliner.
Poor Amy, returning at the height of Lily fever. Comparisons will of course be inevitable, both being feisty females stirring the music world up in more ways than one, but the similarities end there. ‘Rehab’ is a smooth, jazzy track signatured by the line “They tried to make me go to rehab but I said no, no no” (its effect diluted by the fact that she eventually caved in). Wonderful stuff.
She’s been lumped in with the nu jazz movement, but Amy Winehouse has no interest in keeping up with the Norah Jones’ or Jamie Cullum's. Phil Udell gets music lessons from the 19-year-old Londoner.
