Nick “does” 2025 – Italy
ITALY - Volevo Essere Un Duro – Lucio Corsi
Dear reader, I think I may have been a bit overambitious with my writing schedule this...
Mo’s Eurovision 2023 Countdown: Italy
Marco Mengoni is taking a second shot at Eurovision, after finishing in seventh place back in 2014. I've listened to the 'Eurovision Edit' for...
Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2019 – Part 22 – Italy
If you’ve pissed off a far right political party by winning an internationally respected song contest, you’re clearly doing well. Mahmoud has done this...
27 July – Love, sun, sea, moon and stars
As we'll all know, we should be in Italy next May for a riotous cavalcade of quality song. One thing that's amongst the highlights...
Sanremo vs Objetivo Eurovision … if this were a boxing...
So, the exam question that everyone was answering on Feb 11th 2017 was :
“What is the difference between Spain and Italy in the Eurovision...
Italy’s noisy, chaotic glory
Finally! It’s our first look at the six automatic finalists. The order this afternoon is Italy, Germany, Netherlands, France, UK then Spain. Any press...
Sanremo 2022 – Final night complete results.
If I have described Melodifestivalen as the annual Song Contest decathlon then Sanremo must surely be the equivalent of a cricket test match. Five...
25 February – I gave less space to the heart and...
We all know that one of the Big Five (at least) is really gunning for its next win. Year after year it generally out-performs...
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...
Sanremo 2022 has gone Big in the big category.
RAI have spiced up Eurovision fan's Saturday night by releasing the names of the 22 singers that will go into the "Big" acts round...