This weekend is probably going to go down as one of the watershed weekends of 2011 for some, and it would be without a doubt for mostly the wrong reasons.

Before we address the real ugliness of human behaviour that occurred in Norway and also to some extent the media coverage of the tragic events, this weekend we witnessed live the emergency services carrying away the body of Amy Winehouse, who was declared dead aged 27 on Saturday afternoon.

While a post-mortem was carried out today and so far has not come back with an official cause of death, pretty much the odds are unfortunately, that she was back on the Lemsip with a swift pint or 34.

It pretty much sums it all up when various famous folks paid tribute as stating what a terrible waste of talent, something which was echoed here on this site from many moons ago but of course, at the time she was still very much with us.

Russell Brand took time out from being a bearded eccentric gimp to write for the Guardian yesterday about the woman who basically rose up and then fell apart. Read the rest of this entry »