Amy's Husband Dedication

Amy Winehouse returned to the stage in Birmingham for the opening night of her UK tour dedicating one of her songs to her husband who was locked up earlier this week.

In a sometimes brilliant, but often shambolic, set on Wednesday night, she devoted the song, Wake Up Alone, to her husband Blake Fielder-Civil which features the lyrics: "This face in my dreams seizes my guts. He floods me with dread."

She told thousands of fans at the city's National Indoor Arena: "This is for my husband."

Her set included hits such as Back To Black and Tears Dry On Their Own and closed with Rehab, which she stumbled through.

Towards the end of the show, as scores of fans headed for the exits, she challenged some who were booing saying: "To them people booing, wait 'til my husband gets out of incarceration. And I mean that."

But the closing number, a cover of The Zuton's Valerie descended into chaos when she stopped singing, dropped the microphone and walked off stage.