Tag: Amy Winehouse

  • Galata Visibility Project’s requiem to Winehouse

    Galata Visibility Project’s requiem to Winehouse

    As the winter rolls in at unprecedented speed, İstanbul’s historical Galata quarter is preparing itself for a final open-air hurrah with the upcoming seventh edition of the Galata “Görünürlük Projesi” (Visibility Project), an annual celebration of experimental art set to take place this weekend.

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    A packed two-day event presented under the slogan “Sahneden Çık!” (Get off the stage!), one of the highlights of the program is “Requiem to Amy Winehouse,” an elegy and gesture of respect to the late singer directed by young Turkish dramatist Ceren Ercan. Featuring a cast of Fehime Seven, Nazlı Bulum, Albina Özden, Ayris Alptekin and Sefa Tokgöz, the group will be performing a surprise concert in the Tünel area at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday evening.

    A weekend event it may be but preparation for the project has been anything but short-lived, with an extensive series of screenwriting and theater workshops for young amateur writers and actors having been under way for the past six weeks. A series organized by the project’s general art director, Yeşim Özsoy Gülan, the colorful project will showcase the fruits of the workshops’ labors amongst a string of surprise theatrical displays and exhibitions to take place across a number of unorthodox theatrical locations, including local shops and grocers, a synagogue, the Galata Mevlevihanesi (dervish lodge), an old matzo bakery and a number of surrounding streets.

    Other events over the weekend are to include a theater performance of Sibel Torunoğlu’s cult novel “Transvestite Pinocchio,” as part of the event “A meeting of Three Litterateurs,” also featuring the works of acclaimed Turkish poet Lale Müldür and author Ece Erdoğuş as well as photo exhibitions, concerts and video installations at the old matzo bakery.

    via Galata Visibility Project’s requiem to Winehouse.

  • Istan-fabulous!

    Istan-fabulous!

    Grazia Travel Club has just got back from Istanbul, where we stayed at the coolest hotel in town, the W (above and below). The hotel’s Extreme Wow suite was the last hotel Amy Winehouse ever stayed in, after cancelling her Istanbul tour date earlier this year. She liked it so much she stayed holed up there for four days.

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    If you want to sleep in the same huge round bed as Amy did, with its mirror on the ceiling, perhaps sunbathe on its private terrace overlooking the Bosporus then chill in the massive jacuzzi in the bedroom, the Extreme Wow suite will set you back a cool €4,500 per night. The neighbouring Wow suite (we guarantee wow is the first thing you’ll say when you enter the door) is a snip at just €4,000, while rooms at the W start from €216 per night. Not only is the hotel, like all the Ws, totally rock ‘n’ roll but it has the best pool in the city. A short taxi ride, then a boat launch and you’re on the fabulous Suada private island, slap bang in the middle of the Bosporus with Europe to the West of you and Asia to the East – amaze!

    The crowd here is very glam and the DJ plays chilled out vibes – just perfect if you’ve been out the night before for cocktails at 360 www.360istanbul.com (stunning views of the city, beautiful people – two pics above), then on to the Reina club www.reina.com.tr the club to go to in Istanbul in the Summer, a gorgeous outdoor venue on the shores of the Bosporus.

    If you’re heading to Istanbul when it gets a little cooler in the evenings, from September onwards, it’s the W Lounge that’s the place to be seen, where you’ll be hanging out with a hip crowd of Turkish ‘A’ listers and visiting international celebs like Rhianna.

    Istan totally cool!

    – Nicholas Kynaston

    via Grazia Travel Club: Istan-fabulous!.

  • Turkish promoter to survive Winehouse blow, says rival

    Turkish promoter to survive Winehouse blow, says rival

    Turkish promoter to survive Winehouse blow, says rival

    Wednesday, June 22, 2011

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    ISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News

    The cancellation of Amy Winehouse’s Istanbul show may cost its promoter Pozitif between at least 50,000 and 100,000 liras, the company’s competitors tell the Hürriyet Daily News. There are risks in handling the troubled singer’s show, they say, but express their faith in Pozitif’s strength to survive the blow

    The cancellation of British singer Amy Winehouse’s Monday concert in Istanbul could cost its promoter, Pozitif, tens of thousands of euros due to a lack of insurance coverage, according to a number of sector representatives.

    A spokesperson from the organizing company said Tuesday that they had been unable to find an insurance company to work with because Winehouse’s concerts were classified in the “high-risk” category. Businessmen from the entertainment sector also said the company’s losses could total between 50,000 and 100,000 Turkish Liras.

    Although Winehouse returned the payment she had received for the Istanbul show, the company will still bear a loss on the venue booking, technical equipment rentals and various peripheral arrangements, the spokesperson told the Hürriyet Daily News by email Monday. She added that she could not yet provide the press with figures concerning the company’s loss.

    Winehouse canceled her concert in Istanbul, as well as another performance set for Wednesday in Athens, after being booed on stage during a Saturday appearance in Belgrade in which she appeared to be severely intoxicated. The Serbian date was the singer-songwriter’s first scheduled concert in a 12-stop European summer tour.

    Speaking to the Daily News on condition of anonymity by telephone Monday, a businessman in the sector who promotes international concerts in Istanbul said local insurance companies’ policies did not cover cancellation issues; therefore, the organizing companies had to work with EU-based insurance companies.

    “And there are a lot of determinants here in calculating the premium you are supposed to pay when buying the policy. But the most important of all is the risk factor. Amy Winehouse is infamous for last-minute cancellations or her scandalous stage performances. Therefore, the premium that the company asks must be very high,” he said.

    On Tuesday, he said the company’s minimum loss was 50,000 to 60,000 liras.

    The general manager of another company in the international music events promotion business told the Daily News on condition of anonymity on Tuesday that he believed Pozitif’s loss would total a minimum loss of 100,000 liras.

    ‘Blow to Pozitif won’t be negative in the long run’

    “However, the company is a very well-established actor in the sector; they will survive the blow. Plus, the Winehouse show is not their only show for the summer. Moreover, because the company has well-rooted relations with suppliers in this sector, it will not be pushed into making obligatory payments stemming from the cancellation, like reimbursements or compensation,” he said.

    Pozitif is also the promoter of Istanbul-based music festivals Rock’n Coke, Efes Pilsen One Love and the Miller Festival and has also organized a number of concerts and music events over the past 20 years.

    If either Winehouse or her agency – or both – wants to make a stage appearance in Istanbul in the future, they will not contact another promoter, he said. “If this show is going to happen, it is going to happen through Pozitif.”

    Pozitif’s spokesperson also expressed the company’s belief in the Winehouse show. “We have not lost all of our confidence in her. We absolutely want to make that show happen, either in the next months, or the next year. We are still in,” she said.

    via Turkish promoter to survive Winehouse blow, says rival – Hurriyet Daily News.

  • Amy Winehouse cancels rest of comeback tour

    Amy Winehouse cancels rest of comeback tour

    LONDON – Troubled British singer Amy Winehouse has pulled out of all the concerts on the rest of her comeback tour following a disastrous performance in Serbia, her spokesman said Tuesday.

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    Winehouse, who has battled drug addiction and has received treatment for a drinking problem, mumbled her way through Saturday’s set at Belgrade’s Fortress festival before she was booed off stage.

    The 27-year-old “Back to Black” singer initially pulled out of festival shows in Istanbul and Athens but now her management has cancelled all her remaining gigs.

    Her spokesman said: “Amy Winehouse is withdrawing from all scheduled performances.

    “Everyone involved wishes to do everything they can to help her return to her best and she will be given as long as it takes for this to happen.”

    In the run-up to her live return, Winehouse spent a week at an addiction treatment clinic in London, reportedly at the suggestion of her father, Mitch, over concerns that she was drinking too much before her shows.

    She had also been due to appear at Spain’s BBK Live festival in Bilbao, Switzerland’s Piazza Grande in Locarno, Italy’s Lucca festival, Switzerland’s Paleo Festival in Nyon, Nova Jazz and Blues Night in Wiesen, Austria, and Poland’s Bydgoszcz Artpop Festival over the coming weeks.

    Disgruntled fans at the concert in Belgrade described the singer’s performance as a “scandal” and a “disaster”.

    Winehouse left the stage twice during the 90-minute set, with many fans showing their displeasure despite her band’s attempts to calm the crowd.

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    via Amy Winehouse cancels rest of comeback tour.

  • Winehouse out to join tragic 27 Club, Bonaduce fears

    Winehouse out to join tragic 27 Club, Bonaduce fears

    Some famous musicians died at age 27, and the recent antics of English singer-songwriter-rehabber Amy Winehouse have observers worried if she could be the next.

    Radio yakker Danny Bonaduce raised the grim fear on his CBS3 commentary this morning, following news about problems on her concert tour.

    On Saturday she was booed in Serbia for staggering, mumbling, looking lost, forgetting lyrics and disappearing from the stage, then on Sunday, without further explanation, she canceled dates this week in Istanbul and Athens.

    The Grammy-winning Winehouse, who turned 27 in September, has been plagued by drug and alcohol troubles for years, and recently spent a week in rehab.

    “She’s pretty far gone,” said Bonaduce, the Broomall-born ex-Partridge Family child star. “I’ve seen some of the tapes. . . . Nobody’s telling her no, and somebody needs to.” YouTube has several videos of the boofest in Belgrade.

    But Bonaduce is far from the first to voice this concern.

    Apparently, Winehouse herself started worrying about joining the likes of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain – who all died at age 27 – several years ago.

    In late 2008, Britain’s News of the World quoted Alex Haines, her former assistant and lover, as saying, “She reckoned she would join the 27 Club of rock stars who died at that age. She told me, ‘I have a feeling I’m gonna die young,’ ”

    Also on the list: Rolling Stones’ Brian Jones, who was found dead in a swimming pool in 1969.

     

    Contact staff writer Peter Mucha at 215-854-4342 or pmucha@phillynews.com.

    via Winehouse out to join tragic 27 Club, Bonaduce fears – Philly.com.