Italy’s daydreaming cowboy brings bolero jackets and bolshiness to Eurovision
Italy’s Eurovision 2025 entry is many things: poetic, glam, quietly rebellious — and perhaps the most low-key rock 'n' roll thing to grace a...
Sanremo makes people do funny things
The granddaddy of them all, the Sanremo music festival, has been busy during the off-season. Not only have they changed artistic director, with Amadeus...
What’s happening in Italy this year?
We're catching up after our summer break, and if you’re wondering how Italy will likely choose its Eurovision 2025 representative, all eyes should be...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown Part 20 – Italy
Sanremo is one of the annual cultural highlights for me, a music festival so big it transcends its secondary role as the Italian selection...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown – Part 20/37 – Italy
I loved this song at Sanremo and not just because I was on the stage in November! – After five nights of batshit Italians...
Eurovision Countdown 24 – Italy according to Mo
The Sanremo process invariably means Italy avoids sending the kind of half-arsed stinkers beloved of other Big Five members. I either love or hate...
Sanremo – it’s like a musical test match!
I normally eschew Sanremo because I haven't got the energy to devote five nights to an interminable show full of songs and "fun" in...
Sanremo you say? – And you thought FiK was a hard...
Amadeus, in this his final year of being in charge of the Sanremo festival, has announced the thirty (count them) songs that are going...
Italy – is Marco the candyman?
Marco doesn't know whether he is coming or going right now - he has no pressure or anxiety. His second dress rehearsal was good....
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2023 Part 20 – Italy
Due Vita by Marco Mengoni.
I followed Italy’s Marco Mengoni very keenly in Malmö a decade ago when he first competed in Eurovision. His song...