What would Amy Winehouse say if she could see her old band playing her songs with another singer?
“She’d say, ‘God, you’ve aged terribly!’” says Henry Collins, who played with Winehouse until her death in 2011. There are chuckles from his colleagues, all former sidemen to our best vocal stylist since the turn of the millennium. They have got back together as the Amy Winehouse Band to play a string of shows ending in Winehouse’s old stomping ground of Camden in north London. These coincide with what would have been her 40th birthday, although she will be forever 27, unlike this lot. Led by Dale Davis, the bassist and musical director, the group features Collins on trumpet, Hawi Gondwe on guitar, Stuart Anning on drums,
