Pete Doherty Set To Dedicate Reading And Leeds Festival Sets To Amy Winehouse

Pete Doherty is planning to dedicate his forthcoming sets at this year’s Reading and Leeds festival to Amy Winehouse, it has been reported.

The singer who is set to play at the festival, which runs over the August Bank Holiday weekend of Friday 26-29 August, will make his own special tribute to the late Winehouse, reports the Daily Star On Sunday.

A source told the newspaper: Pete was really good mates with Amy and he’s still really cut up about her death. He hopes to help get rid of his demons by dedicating his festival gigs to her memory. He loved her music and hopes he can do it justice.

As previously reported on Gigwise, Doherty said he is ‘bewildered by Amy Winehouse’s recent death: ‘I'm struggling with f*cking everything because I'm so bewildered about what happened to Amy. I was in bed when I heard the news of her death. Someone had to wake me up to tell me. I couldn't take it in and still can't. Coming to terms with what has happened is almost impossible. It's hard to think she's not with us anymore.''

Reading and Leeds festival 2011 will be headlined by My Chemical Romance , The Strokes and Muse, with other performances from Elbow, Interpol, 30 Seconds To Mars, The Streets and Pulp.

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