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San Marino

The Sammarinese entry is chosen by SMRTV. San Marino first took part in 2008 and has yet to trouble the winners.

San Marino isn’t Sanremo, and it shows.

After a very long and boring week of shows where San Marino thought it was Sanremo, only from the pound shop, we get to...

15 December – So you better listen carefully

Is it us, or are there more false flaggers than ever now? And false flaggers whose native land already participates? Often there's a home...

6 September – One’s a lonely number

When we celebrate birthdays, usually the performers have seen a few summers. People in their 60s, 70s, even 80s are all worth celebrating. So...

11 July – Cowboy, my heart is your sex toy

Every now and then a performance comes along that just sets a new bar for performances. It's so memorable in so many ways. And...

San Marino presser….. I can’t smell them

Thankfully Television isn't scratch-n-sniff yet. Otherwise, I don't know what I would be smelling here. Piqued Jacks are happy with their first and second rehearsals....

Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2023 Part 30 – San Marino

Like An Animal by Piqued Jacks. I’m sure there’s a scientific formula that can plot the correlation between Eurovision’s smallest competing nation and the size...

Phil’s Eurovision Countdown 2023 – Part 30/37 – San Marino

Piqued Jacks had been getting a lot of stick on Social Media, some of it deserved, most of it not, in the early bit...

Mo’s Eurovision 2023 Countdown: San Marino

Piqued Jacks won one of the most drawn-out (and low-quality) Eurovision selection processes I have ever witnessed. If SMRTV had presented just the final...

1 March – In the mirror which breaks the image into...

What do you think of those performers that keep coming back? Do you think they should call it a day if they don't do...

27 February – No one ever said we should be proud

It's always interesting how some countries choose their singers and songs. Some go internal, or there's the bog standard national final. Or you could...