It’s been a while sine we wrote about Amy Winehouse here on Unreality Music. I’m sort of aware that we’re not a celebrity gossip site, and I don’t want to bore you with the minutiae of tabloid tittle-tattle. There are plenty of places you can go for that.

Anyway, Amy’s left a short stint in rehab, and judging by the absence of photos in the papers of Amy looking wasted, it looks like she’s making a good recovery.

However, the well-publicised videos of her taking drugs have come back to haunt her. She’s been denied a visa to go over an perform at this year’s Grammy Awards. Since Amy’s been nominated for six awards, it would have been an excellent opportunity for her to overcome the bad reputation she’s built over the last year.

Sort of the opposite of what Britney Spears did at her VMA’s comeback.

The good news – yep, there’s good news – is that she’ll still be performing at the awards ceremony, albeit via satellite link. It’s not quite the same as being there in person, but America’s a huge market and any type of showing there will be good for her profile (and sales, obviously).

Winehouse has been quite humble about being given the chance to perform at the awards…

I’d like to thank everyone for their support over the last couple of weeks. I’m really sorry I can’t be there but I appreciate that I’m being given a second chance via satellite.

I’m glad to see that Amy’s starting to level off, she’s one of my favourite artists of the last year. I hope that this performance marks a new high point in her career.