London’s Roundhouse has hosted generations of defining performances, but few nights will have meant as much as October 21, 2026. Mark Ronson and Salaam Remi, the producers behind Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black, reunited with the Amy Winehouse Band to celebrate the album’s 20th anniversary, fronting an all-star cast of female vocalists in the singer’s beloved Camden.
The one-night-only show performed the record in full, with eleven singers each taking a different track. Corinne Bailey Rae opened with the title song; Sasha Keable, Nia Smith, Skye Newman, Terri Walker, Lianne La Havas, Baby Rose, Jorja Smith and the R&B trio FLO followed through the album’s emotional arc. The tribute was led by the album’s own architects, with musical director Dale Davis, the singer’s longtime bassist, holding the band together.
A Venue With Meaning
The Roundhouse choice was deliberate. The venue sits in Camden, the North London neighborhood Winehouse loved and the place where she was found on July 23, 2011, at just 27. Her death was later ruled accidental alcohol poisoning. Returning to Camden to celebrate her, rather than mourn her, gave the night its particular charge.
Back to Black, released October 27, 2006, fused 1960s soul with brutally honest songwriting to become a chart-topping landmark. Ronson met Winehouse in New York in March 2006; they bonded over the sounds of the ’60s, and he wrote the title track’s piano riff overnight. The anniversary arrives with a deluxe 20th anniversary edition out Friday, October 23.
Voices Carrying the Legacy
Each singer brought her own relationship to the material. Yebba joined Ronson on guitar for a devastating “Love Is a Losing Game.” Lianne La Havas took on “You Know I’m No Good.” Baby Rose’s deep vocals filled “Wake Up Alone.” And Jessie Reyez, 35, closed the album portion with “Rehab,” earning Ronson’s highest praise: “She has this rasp in her voice and she reminds me of Amy the way she writes, it’s so raw.”
The sound of the night was pure celebration. When the crowd’s applause refused to die, every artist returned for “Valerie,” the Zutons song Winehouse made her own on Ronson’s Version album. It was the rare finale that felt both planned and spontaneous, a room full of voices refusing to let the night end.
The Legacy Endures
Winehouse’s legacy has only grown in the fifteen years since her death. The album’s producers marvel at its staying power: as Ronson put it, “I can’t believe I got to be involved with that record. I understand how important it is for people.” Remi has called her a one-of-a-kind artist, spirit and soul.
The concert will be broadcast in full on the BBC later this month, with performances streaming on BBC’s YouTube channel from October 24 and airing on BBC Radio 2 on October 26. Coverage of the night has been unanimous: twenty years on, the monster Ronson described, the rasp, the raw writing, the impossible chords, still sounds like the future.
Camden’s Daughter Comes Home
No tribute to Amy Winehouse could happen anywhere but Camden and feel right. The North London district shaped her image, her sound and her mythology: the beehive, the tattoos, the market stalls and late-night venues that raised her. She was found at her home in Camden on July 23, 2011, and the neighborhood has guarded her memory ever since, from murals to the statue that watches over the market.
The Roundhouse itself added another layer. A former railway roundhouse turned concert hall, it is one of London’s most storied venues, and it was the last venue Winehouse appeared at before her death. Returning there for the 20th anniversary turned the night into a homecoming in the deepest sense.
The Producers’ Reunion
Having both of the album’s producers on stage together was the night’s quiet miracle. Ronson and Salaam Remi split the original production duties, and their reunion, backed by the musicians who played on the record’s orbit, gave the show an authority no hired band could match. Remi’s tribute was characteristically direct: Winehouse was, in his words, a one-of-a-kind artist, spirit and soul.
Ronson, meanwhile, kept returning to the music itself. His story about writing the title track’s piano riff overnight after first meeting Winehouse in March 2006 has become legend, but hearing him tell it in the room, before attempting those same complicated jazzy chords live, made it new again. “It’s crazy that six songs made in a fit of furious musical infatuation would matter so deeply to so many people twenty years later,” he reflected.
What the Anniversary Means
Twenty years after its release, Back to Black sits firmly in the canon, a Grammy-winning landmark that reintroduced retro-soul to the mainstream and launched a thousand imitators. The deluxe edition arriving Friday and the BBC broadcast later this month will carry the celebration to audiences far beyond the Roundhouse. But Wednesday night belonged to the room: eleven voices, one band, and the monster at the center of it all, still unmistakable, still unmatched.