Booing fans demand refunds after Amy's first night shambles

But as she slurred her way through songs and dropped her microphone - before being jeered off stage by fans - it was clear she was doing so for all the wrong reasons.

The 24-year-old singer, who was wearing a see-through black top and a mini-skirt, arrived on stage nearly an hour late only to stumble through an incoherent 90-minute set at the Birmingham NIA.

It took her just eight minutes to name-check her drug addict husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, who is in jail on remand accused of trying to pervert the course of justice.

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Dedicating the song Back to Black to the 25-year-old music video assistant, she repeatedly added the word "Blakey" to lyrics - much to the confusion of her fans.

As the final bars played out, she tearfully slurred: "Nothing's going to bring my husband back."

And just as the audience were thinking things couldn't get any worse, Miss Winehouse began frantically sobbing before launching into rock band The Zutons' hit, Valerie.

As fans began to boo and heckle, around 100 poured out of the arena in disgust.

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Looking slightly stunned, Miss Winehouse dropped her microphone, fell into the guitar stand, and screamed: "Let me tell you something. First of all, if you're booing you're a mug for buying a ticket.

"Second, to all those booing, just wait til my husband gets out of incarceration. And I mean that."

She then shocked remaining audience members by referring to them as "monkey c****".

Afterwards hordes of fans, most of whom had paid around £20 for their ticket, said they would be demanding their money back.

Tracy Owens, 46, from Cannock, Staffordshire, said: "She looks like she is in a lot of trouble. It was like watching a car crash, you didn't want to see it but you couldn't help but look."

Jo Hess, of Perton, Wolverhampton, said: "She was late starting and she started crying when she got booed off at the end. She was atrocious.

"The whole show was an embarrassment - the girl needs help. She's a huge talent but a troubled soul."

A friend of the singer said: "Amy was absolutely distraught after seeing Blake in the afternoon.

"She wasn't drinking before or after the gig and stuck to Lucozade all night."