Did she have an opening act? What time did she go on and how long did she play? I'm going tonight and I'm trying to plan accordingly. Thanks!

NOOOOOOOO!

I never got to see Hockey Night live.

Sux.

word...she looks hot in that picture. seeing her tonight

Honestly, the bowery show was much better than last night's show. She did not seem as into it. Patrick Wolf was awful. Retirement could not come soon enough for that guy.He is not opening tonite. She plays 45-50 minutes. I really feel bad for the people who paid scalper prices for these tickets.

i was at the show last night. great set, she knocked it out. patrick wolf opened, but he's not the opener tonight... no one in the place even knew who he was. he knew he was there just to keep the crowd entertained. but he was fantastic nonetheless. winehouse was spot-on, but it was pretty much the same set list as her last shows at the bowery.

what time did she go on?

Could not disagree with Steve more. Most people there knew who Patrick Wolf was. Fantastic..umm NO. And i am guessing you did not go to the Bowery Ballroom Winehouse show cause if you did you would know how much better she was then then last night. I am not saying she was not good last night just not amazing like she was the last time.

where's the afterparty tonight?

Great to look at(NICE tits and all), but not much to listen to.

decent rack. i'd hit it.

i'd cover her in turkey gravy and seize her mams.

"Great to look at(NICE tits and all), but not much to listen to."

not sure what you're listening to, but she is very much to listen to

Terrible music, but I'd plow that

People in this city will stand in line for anything and pay ridiculous amounts of money for the privilege if someone tells them its cool to do so. She's goddamn Taylor Dane with a dark wig and marginally better songs. That said, I wouldn't mind sliding it between those jugs while she tickled my tip with those eyelashes. Ohh yeah!

I have seen all her NY shows so far. I loved all of them. That's no surprise because she has been one of my favorite singers in the last five years. I think last night's show was better than the Bowery show overall. I still think her best one was the 11:30pm set at Joe's Pub. I also enjoyed Patrick Wolf. Heading to Highline again in a little. I was able to buy tickets to all the shows before they sold out. I have not paid over face value for any show since Sonic Youth last summer, but I would pay for hers if I did not have a ticket.

anyone know what time she goes on?

how was the venue?

Anon 7:17 is either a plant or doing way too much crack. No one in their right mind would think these shows were better than the bowery show. Although the Joe's Pub show was better than all of them. And to just one up his smarmy comment. Dude, I have not paid over face value for any show in years and most of them i am on the guest list so i go for free
Take that jerkoff.

i just got back from the show tonight (wednesday)...dont know how yesterdays was but i would definitely say that the bowery show in march was a lot better. this show was good but the bowery was a better venue in my opinion (even though this new highline place is small)--the crowd i thought was a lot better at the bowery, had more energy and seemed to be into it more. her setlist tonight was basically the same as the other one but i think tonights show was way shorter. her set was 50 minutes total with a 5-10 min break before the encore. i think i remember the set at the bowery lasting about an hour and 20 minutes. the third song she did tonight i think she said was called cherry, never heard it before but it was solid. she also did this song valerie which is on the new mark ronson album, very tight.

tonight she was clearly wasted and while she couldnt speak a sentance without stuttering she performed quite well. fucked up a few songs but she pulls it off and still has an incredible voice live. if you have given her a solid chance and dont like her i cant argue with you, but to many of the haters i suggest you check out either of her albums first. i really like her voice to begin with and she gets some ill production from mark ronson and salaam remi.

"Dude, I have not paid over face value for any show in years and most of them i am on the guest list so i go for free
Take that jerkoff."

No wonder people can't find tickets to good shows when they put tools like you on the guest lists. I think the guy you're referring to as a jerkoff was simply saying he does not buy from scalpers usually, but he'd do it for someone he likes a lot, in response to Otm Shank's comment. Take a chill pill.

SPACE YOUR MEDS:
A Plea to the audience at
Amy Winehouse’s concert last night.
By Sam Pocker

I have been to a LOT of these kinds of gigs, the one where the album is a big hit, the club is small, and the tickets are sold out and going for hundreds of dollars on the secondary market. Literally, I’ve been to well over two hundred of these kinds of shows in the last fifteen years or so.

Never before have I seen one however where the audience did not sing along or dance. Never. Yes, here in New York you have the scenesters who would show up and stand in the back and talk, or perhaps after the first two songs half the audience would realize they don’t actually like the band they paid hundreds of dollars to see and leave, that’s pretty standard.

However last night at the Highline Ballroom, I watched six hundred people just stand there like zombies (sans the two gay black guys next to us who both thought they were Prince – it’s fucked up that they were the life of the party, but there they were. Let’s give credit where credit is due.) while the band played on.

For $20 plus service charge, the main performance before encore was roughly 30 minutes, after which half the audience left because they actually thought it was over. Most bands don’t take ten full minutes before they come out for an encore. The performance itself was true to the album, and in-between almost every song Winehouse apologized for her outfit and said she was going to go put on some jeans.

The ONLY time the audience comes alive is when the singer, Amy Winehouse, is drinking between songs. Every time she picks up a glass the cheering begins, and does not stop until she has put it down. No joke, her drinking got about a thousand times more applause than her singing did. Every moron you never wanted to meet raised up their digital cameras and snapped photos of her drinking, and then picked up their cell phones and shouted in them “Yeah, she’s drinking!”

Not that the audience were the only ones clearly on medication, the bathroom attendant never stands up, he just sits there staring into space, and instead of the usual assortment of things a bathroom attendant might have, he has individually wrapped Swedish Fish, perhaps one of the most wasteful examples of excessive packaging ever just to add irony to the situation. The box office is a card table with a computer on it, and we got to see the ticket seller checking out the NBA scoreboard instead of working. He was in that leaned back with his legs spread a mile wide as if he were in a recliner at home instead of at work in a box office. The bartender was kind enough to tell me “it sucks” that they only have four or five kinds of beer. Even the doorman told me to “Go through the main door”, of which there were two, neither marked, and when I inquired as to which one was the main door he just walked away only to say to another doorman, “Hey, do you think we should go to the back of the line and tell people if they have tickets they can come right in?”

It was like Nightclubbing for Dummies.

Remember when a show like this would make you want to break shit, jump off the balcony, have a few drinks, and walk out onto the street feeling like a million bucks? Remember when the audience SANG ALONG?
Remember when people DANCED?

That’s why people would pay $300 or whatever for a scalped ticket to see something, because they got something more then a digital photo of the artist on stage drinking a beer out of it. The audience is SUPPOSED to be invested emotionally, or at least intellectually in the performance.

Standing in a big room with a complete disconnect from the artist on stage is not worth $20, it’s not even worth $1. This is not art, this is not music, this is bullshit.

I’m done blaming the corporate promoters, the corporate venues, the auto-tuned vocals, and the dollar amounts involved. Let’s attack the audience. Remember when the guy from the Boredoms ran through the audience with a prop chainsaw? That’s what the fuck I’m taking about.

I guarandamntee you the first current act to come out on stage and find a way to beat the living shit out of the audience is going to be the biggest thing in years. The whole fucking audience is on so many anti depressants and anti anxiety drugs that you practically need a science lab to produce popular music, and any first year psychiatry student can tell you that with such a strong disconnect the patient will do things like physically harm themselves in order to “feel” anything at all. “Cutting” is a huge trend with teenagers now as a result of the popularity of psychotropic medication, and so I don’t see any reason why art should not follow suit. Amy Winehouse should have hopped off stage and started punching people in the face. Then the audience would have not only reacted, but given her the false idol worship David Bowie made millions on.

Do you know what a genius the first artist who walks into the audience and starts taking people’s digital cameras and smashing them on the ground will be considered?

“It was groundbreaking”. Get it?

As for those of you in attendance last night, please space your meds, have a few drinks, and go buy a ticket to see the Jesus and Mary Chain.

After I kick you in the head a few times, you’ll thank me.

Well, someone clearly forgot to take their meds before posting.

sam, stop acting like your shit dont stink. i was there and as i noted above the crowd didnt have that much energy and the bowery show was much better. on that note though, they were loud inbetween songs, just not really moving around much during the music. people have different ways of acting at a show...some poeple move around a lot others just stand there. also, who cares if fans were taking pictures. it was a hot ticket, a musician that a lot of people wanted to see, so you take some pics to document and remember the event. you make it seem as if taking pictures is like talking on your phone the entire time. if poeple didnt care about the shit they were seeing they wouldnt be taking pictures of it, so clearly they were interested.

and to complain about the bathroom attendant? would you have been more accepting if he was offering junior mints instead of swedish fish? are you really making an issue out of the bathrooms? i hear ya on the crowd not having a ton of energy but your rant needs to end there and could have been summed up in abot 3 lines instead of this manifesto on the deconstruction of new york music and your nonchalant attempt at displaying how many big events you attend.

Agreed, anon 9:54. And since when is it "rock n roll" to have a bathroom attendant, at all? Concert-goers should consider themselves lucky the toilet has a seat!

i barely got into the wednsday show. i was waiting outside for standby room with about 9 people in front of me and after 3 songs into the set the security guard let us in for the 20 buck ticket price. i too was surprised that no one was dancing i was on the balcony and felt like the only one beside my friend dancing at that show.

i waited with that friend after the show to meet amy and she came out and walked past me and about 12 other people. rude. the only thing she said as she walked straight past was "sorry"...not cool since we were out there for over an hour...but i still respect her music

It's hard to have a lot of energy after standing in a packed room with no airconditioning and staring at an empty stage for 1 1/2 hrs between acts.

i saw a bunch of poeple waiting outside after the show...i assume you were all waiting for autographs? pretty crazy waiting there for over an hour but in all honesty did you expect her to stop to sign autographs? she was real trashed, just dont see her standing around outside there after to meet and greet.

sam, you seem bitter about things that extend far beyond the reaches of fans at an amy winehouse concert. i was there myself and i danced the entire way through the show, just as i did on tuesday. everyone around me was dancing and digging the show completely, and yes, taking pictures. and this was despite us having to wait an eternity in between acts, as the poster above mentioned.

She was much more coherent at Bowery. I waited 3 hours in line (stand by) to get in at the bowery, and it was totally worth it. Last night's show was AWFUL. What a waste of my time and money. The opening act was worse. The band was OK, they needed a better singer. Back to Amy, I agree, she didn't seem to be all there last night. My friend who's a huge fan, who actually turned me on to Amy was mortified, not by the $500 booze bill but Amy's crappy performance. She show REALLY go to rehab.

I have a lot of comments about both nights' shows but the first thing I'd like to know is if anybody caught the name of the opener on Wednesday? If you could post that, thanks in advance.

the opener was l.a.w.

More about the two highline shows: first off, i was at the late show at joe's and i cannot conceive of her being better than that at this stage of her career. she was drinking but comfortable with it. the venue was even more intimate and she was more at ease and communicative and very much into the songs.
as far as me personally, i am what you might call a completist with artists i like, so amy searching was a habit i picked up that i might need a little rehab with, and have picked up a bbc telecast which is awesome and three live gigs that sound fantastic. the one drawback for me as a listener is i have heard these songs many, many, many times now. for someone in her condition, i gotta think she's getting a little tired singing them if i'm getting tired hearing them (i keep going back to the acoustic sides as i never tire of them and they show what an amazing talent this woman really is-she sings like a jazz singer and has a great sense of time). hence i think the drinking gets a little worse cause maybe it helps get her through the boredom of doing the same songs over and over. she tried singing them differently in a couple of cases on tuesday and you can just see her light up and made it easier for her to continue with the set. for a while. while it may take some time for you or i to get bored, this 23 year old does not have the same stamina and her body language says it all.

the crowd's cheering on her drinking on tuesday was abhorrent but typical IMO for people out there thinking they're gonna watch an accident take place (after all those media accounts of her last four months) and after a constant dose of reality tv that puts those who partake in a clouded frame of mind, to be kind about it. to me they're the same folks who drive by an accident scene on the highway hoping to see blood or dead people, live as opposed to on tv which just is not good enough to fill their bellies. maybe i'm being too harsh and too generic but cheering on an addict to do more is about the most boorish behavior imaginable.

wednesday's crowd for me was different as i was upstairs amongst a horde of girls singing along with some of her songs which to me are not singalongs. i just didn't get it. at least we had a better opener on wed. than the retiring not to soon enough for me patrick wolf. and amy was not very good at all wed. i mean drinking during points when she should be singing, that is just too much to bear. she ended her night spitting on stage and then walking off.

at joe's i felt her vulnerability would potentially damage her. now it's drinking and god knows what else is up with that woman. she needs to clean up soon. all the reviews i have read of the shows this time around before ny talked about her going through the motions, which i didn't think would happen in nyc, but did. and she could barely finish the motions.