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[Amy Jenna Harper]

A nice duet

[SteveV]

If this is at the Roundhouse in Camden, it's probably the performance that Russell Brand described in his tribute to Amy last July. I read somewhere that this was the song he was referring to. The tribute probably has been posted here before, but hopefully its OK to re-post it.

Here's an excerpt:

I arrived late and as I made my way to the audience through the plastic smiles and plastic cups I heard the rolling, wondrous resonance of a female vocal. Entering the space I saw Amy on stage with Weller and his band; and then the awe. The awe that envelops when witnessing a genius. From her oddly dainty presence that voice, a voice that seemed not to come from her but from somewhere beyond even Billie and Ella, from the font of all greatness. A voice that was filled with such power and pain that it was at once entirely human yet laced with the divine. My ears, my mouth, my heart and mind all instantly opened. Winehouse. Winehouse? Winehouse! That twerp, all eyeliner and lager dithering up Chalk Farm Road under a back-combed barnet, the lips that I’d only seen clenching a fishwife fag and dribbling curses now a portal for this holy sound. So now I knew. She wasn’t just some hapless wannabe, yet another pissed up nit who was never gonna make it, nor was she even a ten-a-penny-chanteuse enjoying her fifteen minutes. She was a fucking genius.

http://www.russellbr...011/07/for-amy/

I like the way Amy turns and introduces Paul at the end of her vocal. He looked perplexed. That's so Amy.