0:00:02 > 0:00:04MUSIC: "Back to Black" by Amy Winehouse
0:00:04 > 0:00:07# I go back to black
0:00:09 > 0:00:12# Black
0:00:15 > 0:00:17# Black
0:00:19 > 0:00:22# Black
0:00:24 > 0:00:26# Black
0:00:29 > 0:00:32# Black
0:00:34 > 0:00:36# Black
0:00:39 > 0:00:42# I go back to
0:00:43 > 0:00:47# I go back to
0:00:48 > 0:00:52# We only said goodbye with words
0:00:52 > 0:00:56# I died a hundred times
0:00:56 > 0:01:00# You go back to her
0:01:00 > 0:01:03# And I, I...
0:01:03 > 0:01:08# We only said goodbye with words
0:01:08 > 0:01:12# I died a hundred times
0:01:12 > 0:01:15# You go back to her
0:01:15 > 0:01:20# And I go back...
0:01:20 > 0:01:23# To black. #
0:01:23 > 0:01:26APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:01:26 > 0:01:28Thank you.
0:01:28 > 0:01:35This programme contains some strong language.
0:01:35 > 0:01:39Five years ago, Amy Winehouse went to Dingle -
0:01:39 > 0:01:41the westernmost town on the coast of County Kerry.
0:01:41 > 0:01:44She had accepted an invitation to appear
0:01:44 > 0:01:48at one of the world's most exclusive music festivals.
0:01:48 > 0:01:51The Dingle Festival, set in a tiny church in the middle of the town,
0:01:51 > 0:01:56provides the raw material for the Irish TV series, Other Voices.
0:01:56 > 0:01:59Everyone who plays there wants to come back.
0:02:01 > 0:02:03CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:02:05 > 0:02:08Amy Winehouse arrived on a wild, stormy night,
0:02:08 > 0:02:12ready to sing, and ready to talk, especially about her musical heroes.
0:02:13 > 0:02:17Arena pays tribute to Other Voices, and together they joined forces
0:02:17 > 0:02:20to present the whole of that performance,
0:02:20 > 0:02:25and allow Amy Winehouse to tell the story of her music in her own words.
0:02:33 > 0:02:37Amy appeared in the fifth series of Other Voices,
0:02:37 > 0:02:40which we film every winter, here in Dingle.
0:02:40 > 0:02:44As the crow flies, Dingle is about the same distance from London
0:02:44 > 0:02:46as, say, Aberdeen.
0:02:46 > 0:02:49But you can't get to Dingle by crow.
0:02:49 > 0:02:52Whether you start your journey by plane, or by train,
0:02:52 > 0:02:55you finish it by automobile, weather permitting.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00You just don't go to Dingle by accident, it takes a commitment.
0:03:00 > 0:03:03A commitment musicians have been making to Other Voices
0:03:03 > 0:03:05for ten years now.
0:03:05 > 0:03:08A commitment Amy made back in 2006.
0:03:09 > 0:03:14The truth is, there's something very, very special about Dingle,
0:03:14 > 0:03:17and there's something quite unique about Other Voices.
0:03:21 > 0:03:26'Other Voices was never planned - it did just happen.
0:03:26 > 0:03:29'Here, there are conditions that are special,
0:03:29 > 0:03:34'and that are very conducive to great music.'
0:03:34 > 0:03:39It's peripheral - people feel safe here.
0:03:39 > 0:03:42Artists sense something here.
0:03:42 > 0:03:43Over the years,
0:03:43 > 0:03:46as we've asked people to come,
0:03:46 > 0:03:49some say no, but many say yes.
0:03:49 > 0:03:51And if you go down through the lists
0:03:51 > 0:03:53of people who have come -
0:03:53 > 0:03:56Irish artists, who begin their careers here,
0:03:56 > 0:03:59great artists from all the world around,
0:03:59 > 0:04:01whether it's The National,
0:04:01 > 0:04:06whether it's Rufus Wainwright, his sister, Martha,
0:04:06 > 0:04:08Ray Davies, Ryan Adams.
0:04:08 > 0:04:12All these people come, and something special happens.
0:04:12 > 0:04:17But something really special happened the day Amy came to Dingle.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19MUSIC: "Another Green World" by Brian Eno
0:04:45 > 0:04:49PARED DOWN INTRO TO "Back To Black"
0:05:01 > 0:05:04It started off bit-by-bit. Not with rock concerts,
0:05:04 > 0:05:08but there was a parishioner here, Steve Coulter -
0:05:08 > 0:05:13he noticed that the church was only being used one day of the week,
0:05:13 > 0:05:17and said, "This is a pity. I can do something for all the tourists
0:05:17 > 0:05:18"visiting Dingle".
0:05:18 > 0:05:24He was looking for a place to have music, that wasn't a pub.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27So he started folk concerts here,
0:05:27 > 0:05:30with the permission of the Select Vestry, the parish council,
0:05:30 > 0:05:32to help him in his work,
0:05:32 > 0:05:37but also to help the parish do a bit of fundraising.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41The parish here would have been very badly hit over the years
0:05:41 > 0:05:43with emigration,
0:05:43 > 0:05:45It would have once been a thriving parish
0:05:45 > 0:05:47Now, it's quite small in numbers,
0:05:47 > 0:05:50so it's difficult for a small congregation
0:05:50 > 0:05:52to keep a building like this up and running.
0:05:52 > 0:05:55From that, somebody had the idea,
0:05:55 > 0:05:59"Maybe if there are folk concerts here, we can have other things".
0:05:59 > 0:06:02So Philip King approached Steve,
0:06:02 > 0:06:06and they approached the Select Vestry
0:06:06 > 0:06:09with the idea of maybe bringing other musicians in,
0:06:09 > 0:06:11for wider variety.
0:06:13 > 0:06:17Look at where we are. We're at the edge of the known world,
0:06:17 > 0:06:21as it was, before we found out it was round.
0:06:21 > 0:06:26We used to think that if you stood at the edge of the Dingle Peninsula
0:06:26 > 0:06:28and looked west, and walked out there, you would fall off.
0:06:28 > 0:06:30We were at the edge of the known world.
0:06:30 > 0:06:35There is something about places that are at the edge.
0:06:35 > 0:06:39Artists sense something when they come here,
0:06:39 > 0:06:41of that I have no doubt,
0:06:41 > 0:06:44and they make an effort to come,
0:06:44 > 0:06:48and there's something in the effort of getting here
0:06:48 > 0:06:51that makes the way that they perform different,
0:06:51 > 0:06:55because the budget isn't big -
0:06:55 > 0:06:58the production doesn't have
0:06:58 > 0:07:03all of the clipboard people running around,
0:07:03 > 0:07:05wondering if everything is all right.
0:07:06 > 0:07:11There is something communal and collegiate about the place,
0:07:11 > 0:07:13and people come here.
0:07:13 > 0:07:16It's real, and they're cherished,
0:07:16 > 0:07:19and they take to the stage,
0:07:19 > 0:07:23and sometimes I think that when people go on stage in the church
0:07:23 > 0:07:28they are a little bit wary of it, or almost put off by it,
0:07:28 > 0:07:29or find it very difficult.
0:07:29 > 0:07:35If you are Snow Patrol and you played to 40,000 people last night,
0:07:35 > 0:07:38and you play to 80 people tonight,
0:07:38 > 0:07:41you're smack up against it.
0:07:41 > 0:07:44You're sitting in the lap of the person in the front row.
0:07:44 > 0:07:49So this is different - it is a different experience.
0:07:49 > 0:07:55It was a bad evening, a terrible evening - very wet, windy and wet,
0:07:55 > 0:07:58actually very windy and wet.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01They gave me a name, but I hadn't a clue from Adam
0:08:01 > 0:08:06who the lady was - not a clue, just got the name.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09I remember going up to the airport, and writing it out
0:08:09 > 0:08:13at the information desk,
0:08:13 > 0:08:16getting the paper thing and writing her name on it,
0:08:16 > 0:08:18and standing there with it.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21I didn't have a clue who Amy Winehouse was.
0:08:21 > 0:08:25I know the flight was late, and I was waiting there for a while,
0:08:25 > 0:08:28and this girl came along, and a man with her,
0:08:28 > 0:08:31and I was looking out for more people,
0:08:31 > 0:08:34and I said to her, "Where's your mother?"
0:08:34 > 0:08:38She said, "My mother's back in London".
0:08:38 > 0:08:41She was laughing, and we were laughing in-between her.
0:08:41 > 0:08:45I thought she was a child of Amy Winehouse's, to tell you the truth.
0:08:45 > 0:08:48My first reaction of seeing her was that she was a child!
0:08:53 > 0:08:55I remember it being a very long day,
0:08:55 > 0:09:00getting here, and then going to the hotel to get ready,
0:09:00 > 0:09:03and then coming to do the performance,
0:09:03 > 0:09:05and then going straight back to the airport.
0:09:07 > 0:09:10- And it was so long, it was a blur. - HE LAUGHS
0:09:11 > 0:09:14- Can I stick my phone in there? - Sure - by all means.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17We had a great time - we always did.
0:09:17 > 0:09:20She loved coming to Ireland, actually.
0:09:20 > 0:09:21We'd been a few times...
0:09:23 > 0:09:26..and she always enjoyed herself a lot.
0:09:26 > 0:09:28APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:09:29 > 0:09:33The label - Chantal - was texting me,
0:09:33 > 0:09:37"Is she there? Is she OK? Who's arrived, who's picked her up?
0:09:37 > 0:09:38"Is everything OK?"
0:09:38 > 0:09:40And I was like, "Everything is wonderful".
0:09:40 > 0:09:43She marched up the stairs in Benners, into her room, and says,
0:09:43 > 0:09:46"Can you give me a hand?" I said, "What?" and she said,
0:09:46 > 0:09:49"Will you hold my hair while I backcomb it?"
0:09:49 > 0:09:51I was like, "OK". I'm holding the back of her hair
0:09:51 > 0:09:55and she's backcombing the front, and I was like,
0:09:55 > 0:09:57"Can I get you something to eat?" She was like, "No, no, no -
0:09:57 > 0:09:59"I'm late. I'm sure you're way behind schedule
0:09:59 > 0:10:01"We've got work to do".
0:10:02 > 0:10:06We are delighted to have here tonight Amy Winehouse.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:10:11 > 0:10:15# All I can ever be to you is the darkness that we knew
0:10:15 > 0:10:19# And this regret I got accustomed to
0:10:19 > 0:10:24# Once it was so right When we were at our height
0:10:24 > 0:10:27# Waiting for you in the hotel at night
0:10:27 > 0:10:32# I knew I hadn't met my match But every moment we could snatch
0:10:32 > 0:10:36# I don't know why I got so attached
0:10:36 > 0:10:40# It's my responsibility You don't owe nothing to me
0:10:40 > 0:10:44# But to walk away I have no capacity
0:10:44 > 0:10:49# He walks away, the sun goes down
0:10:49 > 0:10:51# He takes the day, but I'm grown
0:10:51 > 0:10:54# And in your way
0:10:54 > 0:10:56# In this blue shade
0:10:56 > 0:11:01# My tears dry on their own
0:11:01 > 0:11:05# I don't understand Why do I stress a man
0:11:05 > 0:11:08# When there's so many bigger things ahead?
0:11:08 > 0:11:13# We could have never had it all We had to hit a wall
0:11:13 > 0:11:17# So this is inevitable withdrawal
0:11:17 > 0:11:21# Even if I stop wanting you And perspective pushes through
0:11:21 > 0:11:25# I'll be some next man's other woman soon
0:11:25 > 0:11:29# I cannot play myself again I should just be my own best friend
0:11:29 > 0:11:33# Not fuck myself in the head with stupid men
0:11:33 > 0:11:38# He walks away, the sun goes down
0:11:38 > 0:11:41# He takes the day, but I am grown
0:11:41 > 0:11:45# And in your way In this blue shade
0:11:45 > 0:11:49# My tears dry on their own
0:11:49 > 0:11:54# So we are history Your shadow covers me
0:11:54 > 0:11:58# The sky above ablaze
0:11:58 > 0:12:02# He walks away, the sun goes down
0:12:02 > 0:12:06# He takes the day, but I am grown
0:12:06 > 0:12:10# And in your way In this blue shade
0:12:10 > 0:12:14# My tears dry on...
0:12:14 > 0:12:19# I wish I could say, "No regrets" No emotional debts
0:12:19 > 0:12:23# Boy, as we kiss goodbye The sun sets
0:12:23 > 0:12:25# So we are history
0:12:25 > 0:12:27# Your shadow covers me
0:12:27 > 0:12:32# The sky above ablaze That only lovers see
0:12:32 > 0:12:35# He walks away The sun goes down
0:12:35 > 0:12:38# He takes the day, but I am grown
0:12:38 > 0:12:43# And in your way In this blue shade
0:12:43 > 0:12:48# My tears dry on...
0:12:48 > 0:12:51# He walks away, the sun goes down
0:12:51 > 0:12:56# He takes the day, but I am grown
0:12:56 > 0:12:59# And in your way In this blue shade
0:12:59 > 0:13:03# My tears dry on their own
0:13:03 > 0:13:08# He walks away, the sun goes down
0:13:08 > 0:13:10# He takes the day, but I am grown
0:13:10 > 0:13:15# And in your way In this blue shade
0:13:15 > 0:13:19# My tears dry on their own. #
0:13:19 > 0:13:21Thank you.
0:13:21 > 0:13:24APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:13:28 > 0:13:32Amy, you've just done a set which is clearly
0:13:32 > 0:13:34"Amy Winehouse - soul singer".
0:13:34 > 0:13:37We don't get to hear that kind of music in real life often,
0:13:37 > 0:13:38but we do hear it on record.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41Presumably, you heard this kind of music first on record, as well?
0:13:41 > 0:13:44- Yes.- So who was it?
0:13:44 > 0:13:46When I was younger, I didn't really listen to a lot of soul,
0:13:46 > 0:13:51but in the last year I got very into Motown girl groups,
0:13:51 > 0:13:53and that kind of thing.
0:13:53 > 0:13:56- Just in the last year? - Yeah - two, maybe... Year-and-a-half.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58It seems like it's in your bones.
0:13:58 > 0:14:01Yeah, I liked Otis Redding when I was younger.
0:14:01 > 0:14:05Well, I've liked Otis Redding from when I was about 14 or 15,
0:14:05 > 0:14:07but I listened to hip-hop and jazz for so many years
0:14:07 > 0:14:11that it took me a while to...
0:14:11 > 0:14:12That's pretty much it...
0:14:12 > 0:14:15Soul comes in the middle -
0:14:15 > 0:14:18it goes jazz, soul, Motown, then hip-hop.
0:14:18 > 0:14:20You know,
0:14:20 > 0:14:23obviously, I've gone in the middle of them two.
0:14:23 > 0:14:26Just recently, I've been listening to a lot of gospel singers
0:14:26 > 0:14:29like Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.
0:14:29 > 0:14:33I love gospel singers, cos gospel is so truthful.
0:14:33 > 0:14:36There's nothing... I'm not religious,
0:14:36 > 0:14:40but there's nothing more pure than the relationship you have
0:14:40 > 0:14:43with your God or what you believe in, your faith -
0:14:43 > 0:14:46there's nothing stronger than that, apart from your love of music.
0:14:46 > 0:14:48Gospel to me is very inspirational.
0:14:48 > 0:14:50MUSIC: "Didn't It Rain" by Mahalia Jackson
0:14:50 > 0:14:52VINYL CRACKLES
0:14:55 > 0:14:57# My Lord, Oh Lord
0:14:57 > 0:15:00# Mm, my Lord
0:15:00 > 0:15:03# Rained 40 days and 40 nights without stopping
0:15:03 > 0:15:06# Noah was glad when the rain stopped dropping
0:15:06 > 0:15:08# Knock at the window Knock at the door
0:15:08 > 0:15:11# Crying, "Brother Noah Can't you take on more?"
0:15:11 > 0:15:14# No, I can't, no You're full of sin
0:15:14 > 0:15:16# Lord's got the key and you can't get in
0:15:16 > 0:15:19# Just listen, how sweet
0:15:19 > 0:15:22# Just listen, how sweet
0:15:22 > 0:15:24# All day, all night
0:15:24 > 0:15:27# All night, all day
0:15:27 > 0:15:29# Just listen, how it's raining
0:15:29 > 0:15:32# Just listen, how it's raining
0:15:32 > 0:15:35# Some crying, some praying
0:15:35 > 0:15:38# Some running, some shouting
0:15:38 > 0:15:40# Just listen, how it's raining
0:15:40 > 0:15:46# Didn't it rain, children? Rain all night long
0:15:46 > 0:15:49# Didn't it, didn't it, didn't it?
0:15:49 > 0:15:51# Oh, my Lord
0:15:51 > 0:15:53# Didn't it rain?
0:15:53 > 0:15:56# Mmmm... #
0:15:56 > 0:15:58It's our musicians and our artists
0:15:58 > 0:16:01who are the prophets of today,
0:16:01 > 0:16:02because a prophet,
0:16:02 > 0:16:05biblically speaking, isn't a fortune teller.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07A prophet is somebody
0:16:07 > 0:16:12who tells it how it is, who can hopefully see things
0:16:12 > 0:16:13the way God sees things -
0:16:13 > 0:16:18so tell you how things really are, as opposed to the way
0:16:18 > 0:16:20that people might think they are.
0:16:20 > 0:16:25When you have people singing rock'n'roll songs, pop songs,
0:16:25 > 0:16:31or whatever that is, that gives you a window into where society is.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34The musicians don't create that, they just reflect it.
0:16:34 > 0:16:39Sometimes you do get people writing
0:16:39 > 0:16:47really insightful, beautiful pieces that they've brought here...
0:16:47 > 0:16:51and it does feel nearly like, erm...
0:16:53 > 0:16:55..an act of praise or an act of worship
0:16:55 > 0:16:58to have them performed in this space.
0:16:59 > 0:17:03This is the next single - this is out January 15th.
0:17:03 > 0:17:04This is called I'm No Good.
0:17:04 > 0:17:09BASS GUITAR
0:17:14 > 0:17:18# Meet you downstairs in the bar and heard
0:17:18 > 0:17:22# Your rolled-up sleeves and your skull T-shirt
0:17:22 > 0:17:27# You say, "What did you do with him today?"
0:17:27 > 0:17:32# And sniff me out like I was Tanqueray
0:17:33 > 0:17:37# Cos you're my fellow, my guy
0:17:38 > 0:17:41# Hand me your Stella and fly
0:17:41 > 0:17:45# By the time I'm out the door
0:17:45 > 0:17:50# You tear me down like Roger Moore
0:17:50 > 0:17:53# I cheated myself
0:17:54 > 0:17:58# Like I knew I would
0:17:59 > 0:18:03# I told you I was trouble
0:18:03 > 0:18:07# Yeah, you know that I'm no good
0:18:13 > 0:18:18# Upstairs in bed with my ex-boy
0:18:18 > 0:18:22# He's in the place But I can't get joy
0:18:22 > 0:18:26# Thinking of you in the final throes
0:18:26 > 0:18:32# This is where my buzzer blows
0:18:32 > 0:18:33# Run out to meet you
0:18:33 > 0:18:36# Chips in pitta
0:18:36 > 0:18:41# You say, "When we're we married" Cos you're not bitter
0:18:41 > 0:18:46# "There'll be none of him, no more"
0:18:46 > 0:18:50# I cry for you on the kitchen floor
0:18:50 > 0:18:53# I cheated myself
0:18:54 > 0:18:58# Like I knew I would
0:18:59 > 0:19:04# I told you I was trouble
0:19:04 > 0:19:07# Yeah, you know that I'm no good
0:19:09 > 0:19:13# Sweet reunion, Jamaica and Spain
0:19:13 > 0:19:17# We're like how we were again
0:19:18 > 0:19:22# I'm in the tub, and you on the seat
0:19:23 > 0:19:26# Lick your lips as I soak my feet
0:19:28 > 0:19:32# Then you notice little carpet burn
0:19:32 > 0:19:37# My stomach drops, and my guts churn
0:19:37 > 0:19:41# You shrug, and it's the worst
0:19:41 > 0:19:46# Who truly stuck the knife in first?
0:19:46 > 0:19:48# I cheated myself
0:19:50 > 0:19:53# Like I knew I would
0:19:55 > 0:20:00# I told you I was trouble
0:20:00 > 0:20:02# Yeah, you know that I'm no good
0:20:04 > 0:20:07# I cheated myself
0:20:09 > 0:20:12# Like I knew I would
0:20:13 > 0:20:17# I told you I was trouble
0:20:17 > 0:20:22# Yeah, you know that I'm no good. #
0:20:22 > 0:20:25GUITAR SOLO
0:20:42 > 0:20:44APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:20:44 > 0:20:46Thank you.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50When you're a singer,
0:20:50 > 0:20:53and you haven't heard someone like Mahalia Jackson
0:20:53 > 0:20:57until later in life, that must make you reassess yourself as a singer.
0:20:57 > 0:21:01You just kind of... There are a lot of singers who, if you are singing,
0:21:01 > 0:21:06and you don't know certain people's work intimately, you give up.
0:21:06 > 0:21:10Like Sarah Vaughan, Minnie Riperton is another singer like that.
0:21:10 > 0:21:12Mahalia Jackson, Dinah Washington.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14Kim Burrell is another one.
0:21:15 > 0:21:20To see... For live performances, you have to see Carleen Anderson
0:21:20 > 0:21:23at least three times in your life - you have to.
0:21:23 > 0:21:27She's someone who I would sit around the venue all day
0:21:27 > 0:21:29just to hear her sound check, all day.
0:21:30 > 0:21:33She did a version of Don't Look Back in Anger,
0:21:33 > 0:21:35and I was just crying. Oh!
0:21:35 > 0:21:39# Take me to the place where you go
0:21:40 > 0:21:45# Where nobody knows
0:21:45 > 0:21:49# If it's night or day
0:21:50 > 0:21:57# And please don't put your life in the hands
0:21:57 > 0:22:01# Of a rock'n'roll band
0:22:01 > 0:22:05# And throw it all away
0:22:07 > 0:22:14# So I'll start a revolution from my bed
0:22:15 > 0:22:23# Cos you said the brains I had weren't in my head
0:22:23 > 0:22:31# Step outside, the summertime's in bloom
0:22:31 > 0:22:35# Stand up beside the fireplace
0:22:35 > 0:22:39# And take that look from off your face
0:22:39 > 0:22:42# Cos you ain't ever
0:22:42 > 0:22:51# Gonna burn my heart out
0:22:52 > 0:22:57# All I do is wait
0:22:57 > 0:23:01# I know it's too late
0:23:01 > 0:23:06# As they're walking on by. #
0:23:06 > 0:23:08These are very inspirational people,
0:23:08 > 0:23:10but they're also very hard to emulate,
0:23:10 > 0:23:13because they're so extraordinary, some of these people you talk about.
0:23:13 > 0:23:15I admire both dex...
0:23:15 > 0:23:18What's that word? Dexterity,
0:23:18 > 0:23:21but also the way they stand out.
0:23:21 > 0:23:23You know, you can't...
0:23:24 > 0:23:26They're very...
0:23:26 > 0:23:28Singers like Ella Fitzgerald,
0:23:28 > 0:23:31I always say she was one of the greatest singers of all time.
0:23:31 > 0:23:34She knew how to carry a tune. To me, really, she doesn't stand out.
0:23:34 > 0:23:37She just sounded like a lot of other people. You can hear her, and go,
0:23:37 > 0:23:39"That's Ella Fitzgerald". But it's not like she stood out.
0:23:39 > 0:23:42Would you prefer Sarah Vaughan to Ella Fitzgerald?
0:23:42 > 0:23:45Easily. Sarah Vaughan is one of my favourite singers of all time.
0:23:45 > 0:23:47Sarah Vaughan was an instrument.
0:23:47 > 0:23:51I've heard her on record humming - she does like, a humming solo.
0:23:51 > 0:23:57She sounds like a reed instrument, a clarinet, or something. It's mad.
0:24:02 > 0:24:07# ..is sentimental
0:24:07 > 0:24:11# Not made
0:24:13 > 0:24:18# Not made of wood
0:24:18 > 0:24:20# I got it bad
0:24:20 > 0:24:22# I got it bad
0:24:22 > 0:24:27# I got it bad
0:24:28 > 0:24:38# And that ain't good
0:24:39 > 0:24:49# But when the weekend's over
0:24:51 > 0:25:00# And Monday rolls around
0:25:00 > 0:25:08# I end up like I started
0:25:10 > 0:25:14# Just crying
0:25:14 > 0:25:19# My poor heart out
0:25:19 > 0:25:26# Lord, lord, lord, lord above me
0:25:27 > 0:25:33# Make him love me
0:25:35 > 0:25:43# The way he should
0:25:44 > 0:25:48# I got it bad
0:25:49 > 0:25:57# And that ain't good. #
0:25:57 > 0:25:59When you started to sing, first of all,
0:25:59 > 0:26:03was it singers like Sarah Vaughan you were trying to copy, or be?
0:26:03 > 0:26:07No, I think I came to Sarah Vaughan a lot later, I was about 18.
0:26:07 > 0:26:11But I'd started listening to Ella Fitzgerald,
0:26:11 > 0:26:15then I was, like, my brother had all the good stuff, and my brother was like,
0:26:15 > 0:26:16"Tsk-tsk, Dinah Washington".
0:26:16 > 0:26:18I learnt to sing from Dinah Washington a lot.
0:26:18 > 0:26:23But I learnt to sing from stuff like Monk, and a lot of soloists.
0:26:23 > 0:26:27That's how I learned to sing, rather than just listening to singers.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30Because I loved jazz - it wasn't really the vocal jazz,
0:26:30 > 0:26:33I just loved jazz, so I learnt from everything, really.
0:26:33 > 0:26:36And when you started to perform as a jazz singer,
0:26:36 > 0:26:37what was the set-up?
0:26:37 > 0:26:41Were you part of a band - were you invited to sit in with people?
0:26:41 > 0:26:45I think I did one gig as a jazz singer
0:26:45 > 0:26:47for the National Youth Jazz Orchestra,
0:26:47 > 0:26:50which everyone has come through,
0:26:50 > 0:26:54comes through or goes through at some point.
0:26:54 > 0:26:56That was my first and last gig,
0:26:56 > 0:26:58cos after that, my manager came to that gig and said,
0:26:58 > 0:27:01"I'll give you loads of studio time - just go in and play guitar,
0:27:01 > 0:27:03"and write songs". I was like, "Thanks, why?"
0:27:03 > 0:27:05And he was like, "You're going to make an album,
0:27:05 > 0:27:08"and then I'm going to get you signed and everything".
0:27:08 > 0:27:11And I was like, "Really?"
0:27:11 > 0:27:13It was cool.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16But I did a lot of... I still did,
0:27:16 > 0:27:18up until a couple of months ago,
0:27:18 > 0:27:22I'd do a massive opening for a casino.
0:27:22 > 0:27:26I'd go out with just my piano player, and we'd do jazz all night.
0:27:26 > 0:27:30Or sometimes we'd get these Russian bankers
0:27:30 > 0:27:33that really like me cos I'm Russian Jew.
0:27:33 > 0:27:36They always book me if they're in town and we do jazz for them.
0:27:36 > 0:27:38We don't do my stuff.
0:27:38 > 0:27:40So I still sing jazz, but I do it in a duo context.
0:27:47 > 0:27:50# For you, I was a flame
0:27:51 > 0:27:57# Love is a losing game
0:27:57 > 0:28:03# Five-storey fire as you came
0:28:03 > 0:28:05# Love
0:28:06 > 0:28:10# Is a losing game
0:28:10 > 0:28:17# One I wish I'd never played
0:28:17 > 0:28:18# Oh
0:28:18 > 0:28:22# What a mess we made
0:28:25 > 0:28:28# And now, the final frame
0:28:29 > 0:28:31# Love
0:28:31 > 0:28:34# Is a losing game
0:28:41 > 0:28:44# Played out by the band
0:28:46 > 0:28:51# Love is a losing hand
0:28:53 > 0:28:57# And it was more than I could stand
0:28:59 > 0:29:05# Love is a losing hand
0:29:06 > 0:29:11# Self-professed, profound
0:29:13 > 0:29:18# Till the chips were down
0:29:20 > 0:29:23# Though you're a gambling man
0:29:25 > 0:29:30# Love is a losing hand
0:29:37 > 0:29:41# Though I battle blind
0:29:43 > 0:29:49# Love is a fate resigned
0:29:49 > 0:29:52# And my memories
0:29:52 > 0:29:55# They mark my mind
0:29:56 > 0:30:00# Love is a fate resigned
0:30:00 > 0:30:03# Oh-ho-oh-oh
0:30:03 > 0:30:08# Over futile odds
0:30:09 > 0:30:13# And laughed at by the gods
0:30:17 > 0:30:20# Now the final frame
0:30:22 > 0:30:23# Love
0:30:23 > 0:30:27# Is a losing game. #
0:30:27 > 0:30:31Thank you. APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:30:33 > 0:30:35The whole jazz thing has gone a bit strange,
0:30:35 > 0:30:38because anybody who sings any kind of acoustic folk, even,
0:30:38 > 0:30:39is called a "jazz singer".
0:30:39 > 0:30:42Yet you grew up singing the real stuff.
0:30:42 > 0:30:44- You were into Monk, and all of that.- Yeah.
0:30:44 > 0:30:47Is there a good jazz scene in England at the moment in London?
0:30:47 > 0:30:50Yes, there is - not in London, necessarily,
0:30:50 > 0:30:53but we have Dune Records.
0:30:53 > 0:30:55My guitarist actually plays for them,
0:30:55 > 0:30:58it's not really their house band, but they have a band.
0:30:58 > 0:31:02There's a band signed to Dune Records called Jazz Jamaica -
0:31:02 > 0:31:04they're amazing.
0:31:04 > 0:31:07Saw them at Brecon.
0:31:07 > 0:31:10It was a massive auditorium, and they were on quite early in the day,
0:31:10 > 0:31:12cos not a lot of people know who they are.
0:31:12 > 0:31:15We sat at the back of the auditorium, expecting it to fill up,
0:31:15 > 0:31:18and there was probably about 30 people in there.
0:31:18 > 0:31:23When I say "massive", I mean the size of 1,000-capacity,
0:31:23 > 0:31:26and we were practically alone, it was amazing.
0:31:26 > 0:31:27They were so cool.
0:31:27 > 0:31:31Their stuff is literally like ska jazz, and they're wicked.
0:31:31 > 0:31:34Then there's members of that...
0:31:34 > 0:31:39Denys Baptiste is in there, and there's Abraham Wilson,
0:31:39 > 0:31:42who's a great trumpet player - he's doing his own thing.
0:31:42 > 0:31:47But I think my favourite jazz artist in England
0:31:47 > 0:31:49is definitely Soweto Kinch.
0:31:49 > 0:31:52- He's great.- I love Soweto. I melt every time I see him.
0:31:52 > 0:31:56I'm like, "Hi, have you still got a girlfriend?"
0:31:56 > 0:31:58And he's like, "I'll chuck her for you".
0:32:03 > 0:32:06The mission to excel is a solitary one.
0:32:06 > 0:32:09Hours of dedicated practice every day,
0:32:09 > 0:32:11for little or no financial reward.
0:32:23 > 0:32:26Milkmen and paperboys have long finished their rounds,
0:32:26 > 0:32:29schoolchildren are on their way,
0:32:29 > 0:32:32and the ordinary bustle goes on around.
0:32:32 > 0:32:35The jazz musician's quest goes on regardless
0:32:35 > 0:32:38in this unlikely setting.
0:32:38 > 0:32:40High above the drudgery of routine,
0:32:40 > 0:32:42trying to climb the stratosphere,
0:32:42 > 0:32:44and be heard.
0:33:06 > 0:33:09Were you also listening - I presume you were, when you were at school,
0:33:09 > 0:33:12all girls together - listening to Top of the Pops
0:33:12 > 0:33:14and regular pop music, as well?
0:33:14 > 0:33:19Yeah. When I was very young, only when I was very young.
0:33:19 > 0:33:22I watched Top of the Pops because you do watch Top of the Pops,
0:33:22 > 0:33:24until you're old enough to go out on a Friday night -
0:33:24 > 0:33:26is it Friday night?
0:33:26 > 0:33:28It was Thursday, I don't know when it is now.
0:33:28 > 0:33:32- I don't even think there is Top of the Pops any more. - No, there isn't!
0:33:32 > 0:33:34But, um...
0:33:34 > 0:33:37But I loved Kylie when I was about six.
0:33:37 > 0:33:40Then, when I was... Yeah, I loved Kylie when I was about six,
0:33:40 > 0:33:45then Madonna. I graduated to the church of Madonna.
0:33:45 > 0:33:48I converted to the church of Madonna. I loved Madonna so much.
0:33:48 > 0:33:50And, um...
0:33:51 > 0:33:56And when I was ten, I got wind of Salt'n'Pepa, and my life changed.
0:33:56 > 0:33:59- What A Man.- Completely, my life changed -
0:33:59 > 0:34:04and from then on it was like R&B only from about ten.
0:34:04 > 0:34:07Then, when I was about 14, jazz.
0:34:07 > 0:34:11MUSIC: "Rhythm-a-ning" by Thelonious Monk
0:34:20 > 0:34:24She was heavily influenced with Thelonious Monk
0:34:24 > 0:34:29and I'd spend time in the evenings with her, listening to Monk,
0:34:29 > 0:34:31and her following everything note for note.
0:34:31 > 0:34:34It was amazing, really, because it's such heavy music, anyway.
0:34:44 > 0:34:47Yeah, she was very much into instrumentation
0:34:47 > 0:34:50as well as the voice, really,
0:34:50 > 0:34:53and it came out when she'd sing.
0:34:53 > 0:34:56She had that ability to improvise phrases,
0:34:56 > 0:34:58and her rhythm was phenomenal,
0:34:58 > 0:35:01so she could just literally manipulate it
0:35:01 > 0:35:02in the way she wanted to,
0:35:02 > 0:35:06and every night when we'd go on stage,
0:35:06 > 0:35:08she could sing the same song, but different every night
0:35:08 > 0:35:10and she'd give her all.
0:35:16 > 0:35:18Did you have help in finding this stuff?
0:35:18 > 0:35:22Did your parents have these records, or did you have to look for them?
0:35:22 > 0:35:26No, my brother had everything - all the R&B
0:35:26 > 0:35:29and all that stuff that I came to, it was called "swing" at the time.
0:35:29 > 0:35:31Stuff like that, I would buy.
0:35:31 > 0:35:34At the time my brother was listening to a lot of,
0:35:34 > 0:35:39like, Sonic Youth, and Pearl Jam and Therapy?,
0:35:39 > 0:35:40"I-want-to-die" bands,
0:35:40 > 0:35:42and I had a very brief flirtation with that,
0:35:42 > 0:35:45but I must have been literally, like I said, nine,
0:35:45 > 0:35:48and then I discovered Salt'n'Pepa and I was like,
0:35:48 > 0:35:49"I've got my music now".
0:35:49 > 0:35:52He started listening to jazz when he was about 18,
0:35:52 > 0:35:55and I was 14, and I just remember the first time I ever heard
0:35:55 > 0:35:58Round Midnight, through the wall.
0:35:58 > 0:36:00I was just like...
0:36:00 > 0:36:02- Was it Monk or Miles playing it? - Monk.
0:36:02 > 0:36:04I was just like, "What is that?!"
0:36:06 > 0:36:08I'll never forget that.
0:36:08 > 0:36:10Yeah, I still remember hearing it.
0:36:10 > 0:36:13Ella sings it, too - a great version of it.
0:36:13 > 0:36:16Oh, really? Oh, yeah - of course.
0:36:16 > 0:36:19I remember the first time I heard Ray Charles, ever.
0:36:19 > 0:36:22It was Unchain My Heart.
0:36:22 > 0:36:25And, um... Yeah, it was Unchain My Heart.
0:36:25 > 0:36:27I remember walking into my brother's room,
0:36:27 > 0:36:31and I opened the door... I always used to knock -
0:36:31 > 0:36:34I opened the door and I was just like that...
0:36:34 > 0:36:36and he goes "What?"
0:36:36 > 0:36:39He looked at me like I was about to go, "Mum's dead",
0:36:39 > 0:36:41or something like that. Touch wood.
0:36:41 > 0:36:45He goes, "What's wrong?" I went, "Who is this?"
0:36:45 > 0:36:48And he went, "It's Ray Charles." I was like, "(Ray Charles)".
0:36:48 > 0:36:51From then on, I think I just listened to Ray Charles
0:36:51 > 0:36:55for three months, exclusively. I was just like, "(Oh, my God)"
0:36:56 > 0:36:59- # Unchain my heart - Unchain my heart
0:36:59 > 0:37:02- # Baby, let me go - Unchain my heart
0:37:02 > 0:37:05- # Unchain my heart - Unchain my heart
0:37:05 > 0:37:09- # Cos you don't love me no more - Unchain my heart
0:37:10 > 0:37:13# Every time I call you on the phone
0:37:13 > 0:37:15# Some fella tells me that you're not at home
0:37:15 > 0:37:20# So unchain my heart Oh, please, set me free. #
0:37:20 > 0:37:2399% of all the songs, I start with the lyrics.
0:37:23 > 0:37:27The lyrics must tell me a nice story - I must get some feeling.
0:37:27 > 0:37:30It must be some kind of way
0:37:30 > 0:37:34I can identify with that song,
0:37:34 > 0:37:38and then it's like being a good actor or actress -
0:37:38 > 0:37:42how you do a part on the stage where people become so involved with you,
0:37:42 > 0:37:46they forget that you're just playing a part that somebody written,
0:37:46 > 0:37:49and they getting mad at you,
0:37:49 > 0:37:51or if you're funny, they laugh.
0:37:51 > 0:37:53It's that kind of a thing.
0:37:53 > 0:37:57If it's sad, they'll cry - because you do what you're doing
0:37:57 > 0:38:00so well that you get the people involved
0:38:00 > 0:38:02in the feeling of what you're doing.
0:38:02 > 0:38:05And it's the same thing with singing a song,
0:38:05 > 0:38:06and that's what I try to do.
0:38:06 > 0:38:11I find songs that I feel I put myself into, and make you believe
0:38:11 > 0:38:14in what I am singing about must have happened to me,
0:38:14 > 0:38:17and you too, maybe.
0:38:17 > 0:38:21She talked about music in a really beautiful way -
0:38:21 > 0:38:25in a way that a real singer does.
0:38:25 > 0:38:27And there's something about singers.
0:38:27 > 0:38:29Um...
0:38:29 > 0:38:31They're sort of...
0:38:31 > 0:38:35They're odd - they carry songs with them.
0:38:35 > 0:38:38How many songs is any singer singing at one time?
0:38:38 > 0:38:43How many songs are in a singer's head, for example?
0:38:43 > 0:38:45If you talk to a great jazz singer they'll say,
0:38:45 > 0:38:49"I know 500 songs, but I'm singing 30 of them at the minute".
0:38:50 > 0:38:53With Amy, even one so young,
0:38:53 > 0:39:00who was only 22, on the edge of what became a truly brilliant career...
0:39:01 > 0:39:04..that ended in tragedy.
0:39:04 > 0:39:10When she was here, I felt she was really happy in some way.
0:39:10 > 0:39:11That she...
0:39:11 > 0:39:16Certainly, the way that she sang that night, she sang the blues away,
0:39:16 > 0:39:18if you know what I mean.
0:39:18 > 0:39:21She used her gift
0:39:21 > 0:39:24to still her trembling soul.
0:39:24 > 0:39:29She used her gift as a way to explain herself to herself,
0:39:29 > 0:39:31to entertain people, sure.
0:39:31 > 0:39:34But to sing the blues, and to give herself some relief.
0:39:34 > 0:39:39INTRO: "Back To Black"
0:39:50 > 0:39:55# He left no time to regret
0:39:57 > 0:39:59# Kept his dick wet
0:40:00 > 0:40:04# With his same old safe bet
0:40:05 > 0:40:09# Me
0:40:09 > 0:40:11# And my head high
0:40:12 > 0:40:14# And my tears dry
0:40:16 > 0:40:20# Get on without my guy
0:40:21 > 0:40:27# You went back to what you know
0:40:28 > 0:40:31# So far removed
0:40:31 > 0:40:35# From all that we went through
0:40:36 > 0:40:44# And I tread a troubled track
0:40:44 > 0:40:46# My odds are stacked
0:40:47 > 0:40:52# I'll go back to black
0:40:53 > 0:40:57# We only said goodbye with words
0:40:57 > 0:41:00# I died a hundred times
0:41:01 > 0:41:03# You go back to her
0:41:05 > 0:41:08# And I go back to...
0:41:08 > 0:41:13# I go back to us
0:41:15 > 0:41:17# I love you much
0:41:19 > 0:41:21# It's not enough
0:41:21 > 0:41:26# You love blow and I love puff
0:41:27 > 0:41:33# And life, life is like a pipe
0:41:34 > 0:41:37# And I'm a tiny penny
0:41:37 > 0:41:42# Rolling up the walls inside
0:41:44 > 0:41:48# We only said goodbye with words
0:41:48 > 0:41:51# I died a hundred times
0:41:52 > 0:41:55# You go back to her
0:41:55 > 0:41:59# And I go back to...
0:41:59 > 0:42:03# We only said goodbye with words
0:42:03 > 0:42:07# I died a hundred times
0:42:07 > 0:42:10# You go back to her
0:42:10 > 0:42:15# And I go back to...
0:42:15 > 0:42:20# I go back to...
0:42:20 > 0:42:24# Black
0:42:25 > 0:42:27# Black
0:42:30 > 0:42:33# Black
0:42:35 > 0:42:37# Black
0:42:39 > 0:42:42# Black
0:42:44 > 0:42:47# Black
0:42:49 > 0:42:52# Black
0:42:55 > 0:42:59# I go back to...
0:42:59 > 0:43:03# I go back to...
0:43:04 > 0:43:08# We only said goodbye with words
0:43:08 > 0:43:12# I died a hundred times
0:43:12 > 0:43:15# You go back to her
0:43:15 > 0:43:17# And I...
0:43:17 > 0:43:19# I
0:43:19 > 0:43:23# We only said goodbye with words
0:43:23 > 0:43:27# I died a hundred times
0:43:27 > 0:43:31# You go back to her
0:43:31 > 0:43:35# And I go back
0:43:35 > 0:43:38# To black. #
0:43:40 > 0:43:42APPLAUSE
0:43:42 > 0:43:43Thank you.
0:43:49 > 0:43:52The reference points on the new album, however,
0:43:52 > 0:43:54in terms of soul music,
0:43:54 > 0:43:57very often they're on the pop/soul end of things,
0:43:57 > 0:44:01the girl groups, the Shangri-Las and those sorts of people.
0:44:01 > 0:44:05What appeals to you in those groups, because they are so...some of them,
0:44:05 > 0:44:08over the top, you know, melodrama by the bucket load?
0:44:08 > 0:44:13Yeah, I love the drama, I love the atmosphere, I love the sound effects.
0:44:13 > 0:44:16People will know Leader Of The Pack and things like that,
0:44:16 > 0:44:19but there's so many of them, Sophisticated Boom Boom...
0:44:19 > 0:44:23Yeah, and they write the most depressing songs ever
0:44:23 > 0:44:25like I Can Never Go Home Any More.
0:44:25 > 0:44:27When me and my boyfriend finished,
0:44:27 > 0:44:29I used to listen to that song on repeat.
0:44:29 > 0:44:32I listened to that song for two weeks just sitting on my kitchen floor,
0:44:32 > 0:44:34with a bottle of Jack Daniels,
0:44:34 > 0:44:38drinking the Jack Daniels and pass out, wake up and just do it again.
0:44:38 > 0:44:41My flatmate used to come in, leave me bags of KFC and just leave.
0:44:41 > 0:44:43She'd come in and see me,
0:44:43 > 0:44:46and be like, "There's your dinner, I'm going out."
0:44:46 > 0:44:48Listening to I Can Never Go Home Anymore...
0:44:48 > 0:44:50Yeah. On repeat, like that.
0:44:50 > 0:44:54# I'm gonna hide if she don't leave me alone
0:45:36 > 0:45:38That's the saddest song in the world,
0:45:38 > 0:45:41that is the most depressing song. It's like, "Mum, I'm in love."
0:45:41 > 0:45:43She's like, "You're too young, you can't be."
0:45:43 > 0:45:45"Well, Mum, I'm leaving." First of all she's like,
0:45:45 > 0:45:48"I've got nothing in my life, I just go to school." And then, a miracle.
0:45:48 > 0:45:51- The angels came.- A boy. Her mum dies of grief because she never goes home.
0:45:51 > 0:45:54And when she leaves home, she's like, "I don't love him anyway."
0:45:54 > 0:45:56It's like, so depressing.
0:45:56 > 0:45:58What's that line? "The angels came and took her for a friend."
0:45:58 > 0:46:00Yeah, "She grew so lonely in the end,
0:46:00 > 0:46:02"that the angels took her for their friend
0:46:02 > 0:46:05"and I can never go home anymore and that's sad."
0:46:05 > 0:46:09# Never
0:46:09 > 0:46:13# Go home anymore... #
0:46:14 > 0:46:19There is this sense in our culture of the suffering artist
0:46:19 > 0:46:26or that art come out of a sense of things not being right.
0:46:26 > 0:46:31And it's that struggle, the struggle of suffering,
0:46:31 > 0:46:34or people being really extreme
0:46:34 > 0:46:38and being on the edge
0:46:38 > 0:46:42and that is where great art comes from,
0:46:42 > 0:46:46and with Amy there is this sense that, yes,
0:46:46 > 0:46:50there was this wonderful art, this wonderful music that came out
0:46:50 > 0:46:56and to a certain extent came out from her living a life on the edge
0:46:56 > 0:47:02but I think there is sort of, like a category mistake.
0:47:02 > 0:47:08It's not, it doesn't have to stay on the edge, you know,
0:47:08 > 0:47:14it's maybe the great art comes out of the resolution between
0:47:14 > 0:47:21being on the edge and then coming to a comfortable, safe place.
0:47:21 > 0:47:26Sort of a more whole place for a person.
0:47:26 > 0:47:30I find that any time I listen to any of Amy's music,
0:47:30 > 0:47:33it is tinged with that touch of sadness -
0:47:33 > 0:47:39that she never got the resolution, it seems so very tragic.
0:47:39 > 0:47:41This is my first single. Before I go on,
0:47:41 > 0:47:43I'd like to introduce my band to you.
0:47:43 > 0:47:47We've got Robin Banerjee on the guitar.
0:47:47 > 0:47:50And Dale Davis on the bass.
0:47:50 > 0:47:51APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:47:54 > 0:47:56He's got his on fan club, you know.
0:47:56 > 0:47:58All right, this is called Rehab.
0:48:02 > 0:48:05You boys going to count me in?
0:48:05 > 0:48:07One, two, one, two, three.
0:48:08 > 0:48:11# They tried to make me go to rehab
0:48:11 > 0:48:14# I said no, no, no
0:48:15 > 0:48:18# Yes, I've been black But when I come back
0:48:18 > 0:48:22# You'll know, know, know
0:48:22 > 0:48:25# I ain't got the time
0:48:25 > 0:48:28# And if my daddy thinks I'm fine
0:48:28 > 0:48:31# Just try to make me go to rehab
0:48:31 > 0:48:34# I won't go, go, go
0:48:36 > 0:48:38# I'd rather be
0:48:38 > 0:48:41# At home with Ray
0:48:44 > 0:48:48# I ain't got 70 days
0:48:49 > 0:48:51# Cos there's nothing
0:48:51 > 0:48:54# There's nothing you can teach me
0:48:56 > 0:48:59# That I can't learn
0:48:59 > 0:49:03# From Mr Hathaway
0:49:04 > 0:49:09# I didn't get a lot in class
0:49:10 > 0:49:14# But I know it don't come
0:49:14 > 0:49:17# In a shot glass
0:49:17 > 0:49:20# They tried to make me go to rehab
0:49:20 > 0:49:23# I said no, no, no
0:49:24 > 0:49:26# Yes, I been black
0:49:26 > 0:49:30# But when I come back you'll know, know, know
0:49:32 > 0:49:35# I ain't got the time
0:49:35 > 0:49:39# And if my daddy thinks I'm fine
0:49:39 > 0:49:41# Just try to make me go to rehab
0:49:41 > 0:49:44# I won't go, go, go
0:49:46 > 0:49:51# The man said "Why you think you here?"
0:49:53 > 0:49:58# I said, "I got no idea"
0:49:59 > 0:50:06# I said, "I'm gonna, I'm gonna lose my baby
0:50:06 > 0:50:13# "So I always keep a bottle near here"
0:50:13 > 0:50:15# He said
0:50:15 > 0:50:19# "I just think you're depressed"
0:50:19 > 0:50:22# Just me
0:50:22 > 0:50:24# Yeah, baby
0:50:24 > 0:50:27# And the rest
0:50:27 > 0:50:29# They tried to make me go to rehab
0:50:29 > 0:50:33# I said no, no, no
0:50:34 > 0:50:36# Yes, I've been black
0:50:36 > 0:50:38# But when I come back
0:50:38 > 0:50:40# You'll know, know, know
0:50:42 > 0:50:46# I don't never want to drink again
0:50:48 > 0:50:51# I just
0:50:51 > 0:50:55# I just need a friend
0:50:57 > 0:51:00# I'm not going to spend ten weeks
0:51:02 > 0:51:05# Have everyone think
0:51:05 > 0:51:09# I'm on the mend
0:51:11 > 0:51:14# It's not just my pride
0:51:16 > 0:51:19# It's just till
0:51:19 > 0:51:23# These tears have dried
0:51:23 > 0:51:26# They tried to make me go to rehab
0:51:26 > 0:51:29# I said no, no, no
0:51:31 > 0:51:34# Yes, I've been black but when I come back
0:51:34 > 0:51:37# You'll know, know, know
0:51:38 > 0:51:41# I ain't got the time
0:51:41 > 0:51:45# And if my daddy thinks I'm fine
0:51:45 > 0:51:48# Just try to make me go to rehab
0:51:48 > 0:51:51# I won't go, go, go. #
0:51:51 > 0:51:53APPLAUSE
0:51:56 > 0:51:58Thank you very much.
0:51:58 > 0:52:01In any sense was this album, in any way at all,
0:52:01 > 0:52:03moving you away from the jazz tag,
0:52:03 > 0:52:06- did you want to get away from that at all?- No. Not at all.
0:52:06 > 0:52:09I'm a jazz singer. I can do jazz,
0:52:09 > 0:52:14I can do hip-hop and I was just not listening to that any more.
0:52:14 > 0:52:20And what I listen to influences what I write. Very much so.
0:52:20 > 0:52:23I'm going to do my third album now,
0:52:23 > 0:52:26just get it out...not get it out the way, not like, knock it out.
0:52:26 > 0:52:28I'm just gonna...
0:52:30 > 0:52:33I'm just... I'm just taking every opportunity.
0:52:33 > 0:52:36Like, I've got two week off over Christmas, I'm going to work.
0:52:36 > 0:52:43I'm not going to sit around and eat chocolates and drink brandy,
0:52:43 > 0:52:45I'm not going to do stuff like that.
0:52:45 > 0:52:48I'm going to have Christmas Eve with my boyfriend,
0:52:48 > 0:52:50I'm going to break him into Christmas.
0:52:50 > 0:52:52We're going to watch Bad Santa, Elf and It's A Wonderful Life,
0:52:52 > 0:52:55I'm going to cook dinner, and if he doesn't cry, I'm going to leave him.
0:52:55 > 0:52:58- If that doesn't work, get rid of him.- I'm going to leave him!
0:52:58 > 0:53:01Bad Santa, Elf, It's A Wonderful Life
0:53:01 > 0:53:05and then me packing my bags. Literally.
0:53:05 > 0:53:10And then Christmas Day at my mum's, at my auntie's,
0:53:10 > 0:53:14Boxing Day at his mum's and then back to work.
0:53:18 > 0:53:23It was literally a few week after the album took off in America
0:53:23 > 0:53:27and she'd won loads of awards and then that was it, you know.
0:53:27 > 0:53:29We just went off and promoted the record
0:53:29 > 0:53:32and I think the demand for her was so great then
0:53:32 > 0:53:34that she probably didn't have a chance
0:53:34 > 0:53:37to sit down and write that next album, really.
0:53:39 > 0:53:41She burnt so brightly, you know.
0:53:41 > 0:53:43I have no idea what to do now.
0:53:43 > 0:53:44What?
0:53:44 > 0:53:47- 'Do you miss her? - Absolutely, I think about her.
0:53:47 > 0:53:50'When she was alive I used to think about her all the time, every day,
0:53:50 > 0:53:54'and now she's gone, you know, I always think about her.
0:53:54 > 0:53:56'It's a big loss.
0:53:56 > 0:53:59'It's life but it's a big loss, you know, really.'
0:53:59 > 0:54:04Yeah, OK. This is called Me And Mr Jones.
0:54:06 > 0:54:10I don't need the pre-chord! Thank you.
0:54:14 > 0:54:19# Nobody stands in between me and my man
0:54:19 > 0:54:22# It's me and Mr Jones
0:54:25 > 0:54:28# What kind of fuckery is this?
0:54:30 > 0:54:34# You made me miss the Slick Rick gig
0:54:37 > 0:54:41# You thought I didn't love you when I did
0:54:42 > 0:54:49# Can't believe you played me out like that
0:54:51 > 0:54:55# No, you ain't worth guest list
0:54:56 > 0:55:01# Plus one of all them girls you kissed
0:55:03 > 0:55:08# You can't keep lying to yourself like this
0:55:10 > 0:55:14# Can't believe you played yourself
0:55:14 > 0:55:18# Like this
0:55:19 > 0:55:22# Slick Rick's one thing
0:55:22 > 0:55:26# But come Brixton
0:55:26 > 0:55:32# Nobody stands in between me and my man
0:55:32 > 0:55:37# Cos it's me and Mr Jones
0:55:39 > 0:55:45# Me and Mr Jones
0:55:45 > 0:55:48# What kind of fuckery are we?
0:55:50 > 0:55:55# Nowadays you don't mean dick to me
0:55:56 > 0:56:00# But I might let you make it up to me
0:56:02 > 0:56:05# Yeah, yeah, baby
0:56:05 > 0:56:10# Who's playing Saturday?
0:56:13 > 0:56:15# What kind of fuckery are you?
0:56:17 > 0:56:22# 'Side from Sammy You're my best black Jew
0:56:24 > 0:56:28# I thought I could swear that we were through
0:56:31 > 0:56:41# I still wonder 'bout the things you do
0:56:41 > 0:56:48# Mr Destiny, nine and 14
0:56:48 > 0:56:53# Nobody stands in between me and my man
0:56:53 > 0:57:00# Cos it's me and Mr Jones
0:57:00 > 0:57:03# Yeah
0:57:03 > 0:57:08# Yeah
0:57:08 > 0:57:12# Yeah... #
0:57:14 > 0:57:18APPLAUSE Thank you.
0:57:18 > 0:57:20Thank you very much.
0:57:20 > 0:57:25When Amy Winehouse sang, she let us in,
0:57:25 > 0:57:28if we have the ears to hear
0:57:28 > 0:57:32and the eyes to see into the heart
0:57:32 > 0:57:37of what she really was as a person and as an artist.
0:57:37 > 0:57:40She touched all of us that year
0:57:40 > 0:57:43because she was so "un"
0:57:43 > 0:57:48what she had been represented as in the tabloids.
0:57:48 > 0:57:51And we didn't care about any of that,
0:57:51 > 0:57:54we weren't interested in any of that and still aren't.
0:57:54 > 0:57:58It was just brilliant that she came with her spindly little legs
0:57:58 > 0:58:04and her mental hair and sang her heart out in Kerry for us.
0:58:04 > 0:58:07Brilliant, absolutely brilliant.
0:58:19 > 0:58:21Thanks for talking to us.
0:58:21 > 0:58:23Thanks for making this trip, I know it was a long journey.
0:58:23 > 0:58:27Actually, having heard what some of you had to do to get here,
0:58:27 > 0:58:30mine was a walk in the park, to be honest.
0:58:30 > 0:58:33All we did was have a two-hour drive from another airport,
0:58:33 > 0:58:36at least we got a flight.
0:58:36 > 0:58:38You got here and you did the business in there tonight.
0:58:38 > 0:58:42- Thanks, Amy, thanks. - Thank you.- Cheers.
0:58:42 > 0:58:46- Sorry I went off on one of my chats. - I went off on one, too.
0:58:46 > 0:58:49I don't get to talk to people very often.
0:58:49 > 0:58:52- Oh, my God!- Wow!
0:58:52 > 0:58:54Thank you so much.
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