After a brutally bad gig in St. Lucia which she eventually walked off in the middle of and subsequently reportedly being hospitalized for chest pains, Amy Winehouse has cancelled her comeback shows in London.

The event, which was due to take place on May 31st and was organized by Island records for their 50th anniversary, would have been Amy’s first show in her home country in a year.

A statement released by Winehouse’s management said they “regretfully announced that Amy and her band will no longer be performing at Shepherd’s Bush Empire on 31 May. Amy would like to apologise to her fans who bought tickets for the shows.”

Amy continues to live on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia where she is working on her 3rd studio album.

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It looks like Amy Winehouse is taking her efforts at keeping sober seriously. The often troubled, but exceptionally talented Winehouse is slated to play the St. Lucia Jazz Festival next month and has put in a rider request a month ahead of time.

Among the low key demands were tea and HP sauce. She also demanded that all crew and backstage personnel remain sober at all times. That’s quite a change from 2006 when she requested a litany of alcohol including Champagne, vodka, red wine and lager.

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Jay-Z who has worked with Beyonce and Kanye West, and who remixed Amy’s single Rehab in 2006 claims that he is keen to work with the troubled Amy in the studio.

Jay-Z says:

 ”Amy has a really powerful voice, it is so distinctive and beautiful. Hopefully in the future we could get together and work on some new material – I’d love to work with her again.”

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Amy Winehouse cracked her knuckles, adjusted her beehive – and to the delight of the 20 reporters in a London courtroom – spoke clearly from behind a clear plastic shield on the stand Tuesday morning.

Uttering only a few lines during a 15 minute hearing in the City of Westminster Magistrates Court, Winehouse proudly proclaimed her name as Amy Jade Civil – her married name. And, leaning forward to speak through a gap in the plastic, she pleaded “not guilty” when a charge of common assault against Sherene Flash was put to her.

The assault is alleged to have happened in September 2008 in Berkeley Square, London, at a high society ball.

Winehouse, 25, was dressed in a summery floral print, low-cut dress, which revealed her many tattoos and her bra strap, and four-inch pink stilettos. Asked at one point, as she fidgeted with her hair, if she was okay, she turned a security guard and said, “Me? I’m alright.”

Watching the proceedings from a few feet away was her father Mitch and a minder, who had driven her down to the court from her new home in Barnet, north London.

District judge and chief magistrate Timothy Workman set a trial date of July 23 and Winehouse was remanded on bail.

Leaving the hearing, the singer strutted and posed for the gathered photographers before being whisked away.

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Amy Winehouse’s father said his drug-ravaged daughter came “close to death” twice.

Mitch Winehouse said the singer was “lying in bed for days in a dark room” in the upcoming documentary “Saving Amy,” according to Hello! magazine.

“She was close to death twice,” he said. “We have been working a lot to get her to where she is right now.”
Where she is now is apparently drug-free, says Mitch Winehouse, who, while no fan of her husband Blake Fielder-Civil, still found it hard to inform Amy of his divorce filing following photos of her frolicking on the beach with rugby player Josh Bowman.

“I had to call Amy before she heard about [the divorce] from someone else,” Mitch Winehouse said. “She asked me, ‘Daddy, why does he want to divorce me?’ I said, ‘You know I don’t like him, but I have to admit that your behavior with another man is not what marriage is all about.’ ”

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