The British press lambasted Amy Winehouse for her performance at the Mobo awards Wednesday night in London, in which she seemed to forget the words to the song she was performing and looked a bit tipsy on stage. She soldiered on with her performance, mumbling the words to cover up what she couldn’t remember and still maintaining her composure. She also was said to have spit before accepting the award for best female.

I didn’t see the spitting incident in the video available, but her performance is on You Tube and it wasn’t awful, she just mumbled a lot. The crowd seemed to like her and really went crazy. You can tell that she couldn’t remember the words to the first song, “Tears Dry on Their Own,” but she did better with “Me and Mr. Jones,” her next performance.

Here’s the video, thanks to The Blemish for linking it. This was also in yesterday’s link post, I just didn’t get to cover this until today:

And here’s The Sun’s description of Amy’s performance shown above, which is generally accurate but seems a bit harsh. She is also said to have flipped out screaming backstage, but if that was true you think The Sun would have gone on about it forever. Two lines without much detail just make them seem guilty for making it up. Amy certainly seems capable of it, but wouldn’t they have more dirt on this incident if it really happened?

Then she took the microphone and appeared to spit before saying a brief thank-you.

She followed that with a shoddy rendition of Tears Dry On Their Own – forgetting half the words.

During the performance Amy twitched, pulled at her black-and-white dress and gripped the mic stand as she swayed precariously.

Her version of Me And Mr Jones was slightly better – at least she remembered the words. Trouble started before the show.

A source said: “In her dressing room she was really on edge, then flipped. She was screaming and chucking anything she could get her hands on at the people around her. She wasn’t in a good way.”

[From The Sun]

And she was said to have ordered a lot of booze backstage before her performance, along with some much-needed food to absorb some of it:

On the “essential” list handed to the O2 Arena were one large bottle of vodka, two bottles of Jack Daniels and two more bottles of Veuve Cliquot, not to mention two bottles of red Rioja wine and 48 of Heineken beer.

Amy gave a lacklustre performance of Tears Dry On Their Own and Me and Mrs Jones at the awards show at the O2 dome in London

Among her requests backstage were some signs that Winehouse is trying to bring a little health into her diet.

Along with the packs of Haribo sweets, chicken drumsticks, chocolate bars, chips and dips, she also requested fresh fruit – though that might have been for slices of lemon to pop in the vodka.

[From the Daily Mail]

And because she was at the Mobos, Amy couldn’t attend the Vodafone Live Awards on the same night – so she sent the owner of her local pub to go for her. She won the award for best female there too, and her representative said “We’re putting it behind the bar.”

Amy and her new husband/enabler, Blake Fielder Civil, had a huge argument before her performance, and Amy was said to be asking how much it would end up costing her if she divorced the creep.

There’s a recent picture of Amy sans makeup and beehive accepting a package through her window. She looks awful and is clearly being delivered drugs.

She might have ODed and hasn’t dumped her husband yet or cleaned up, but she’s still holding on by the thin thread of her talent. I care a lot more what happens to her than Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, or Lindsay Lohan. Winehouse is more talented than all three of them combined, but if she dies young or ruins her health even a little bit more the world will have to make due with what she’s already recorded.