Winehouse delivers the goods, with both music and controversy at Glastonbury Music fest: throws punch at fan during last song “Rehab”
By Veronica Ramsden

GLASTONBURY, UK (Hollywood Today) 6/28/08 — “Ladies and gentlemen this is… Amy Winehouse” and the surprising thing it was.

She appeared on stage, on time, somewhat intense but nevertheless THERE for the audience who had spent the night in tents waiting for her at the Glastonbury fest, the Woodstock of the UK. And with her track record of skipping shows, her recent collapse and diagnosis of emphysema, her recent drug troubles and time in rehab, there was every reason for her to be a no-show.

Sporting four cocktail umbrellas in her trademark beehive’do, she launched into what was to be a full menu from aperitif to digestif of full Amy. It was an important show for her, her first full set since all her problems began in earnest.

And she was on best behaviour until she went into the security pit for her last two songs. During her Grammy-winning song “Rehab,” she threw a punch at a fan. It’s not clear what provoked the incident, the fan may have grabbed her. But she was mad – she even went back for second sock at the attendee.

She delivered her songs and shared her emotions with an audience who were not there to judge just to enjoy.

Amy drank , gyrated and spat on stage: she did what she does best …she performed

Why was it, she queried, that it took a girl so long to get dressed and so short a time to be undressed ?

An allusion maybe to how quickly the media had been to expose her private struggles and how slow, lately, to applaud her hard earned fame.

Her husband ,she told us, was to be “released from jail in two weeks time” clearly tonight this is the man Amy loves.

She is a showgirl and the show went on .Tonight her band were tight and so was Amy…in her performance ,who cares if she may have been drunk as well.

She, like her music , is two tone ; she wandered among the crowd flashing aggression and intimacy.

The star rambled: “This one was another one where I never thought I would see Blake again. I said, ‘Blake I never thought I would see you again’. I thought I would die with the man and then never see him again.”

When people in the crowd jeered, Amy threatened: “Who booed? I will find you.”

During her set, which featured some of her most famous songs including Cupid, Tears Dry on Their Own and Back to Black, Winehouse thanked her fans “for your support”.

Winehouse, however, was less appreciative of rapper Jay-Z, who she preceded on the Pyramid Stage, announcing that she thought he had “got some front to come here…with tunes you don’t even remember”.

Amy Winehouse provided expectant Glastonbury festival-goers with the controversy they were anticipating last night,

Her beehive was slipping and you could just feel the sting itching to get out but it seems Amy is back willing and able and at the end of her set she still had 2 cocktail umbrellas in her hair…… proving that not everything that goes up has to come down.

The girl did good. And has a mean right hook.