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...
Monty’s Eurovision Countdown 2025 Part 30 – San Marino
Tutta L’Italia by Gabry Ponte
I called France’s Louane as arguably the biggest artist in this year’s Contest but there’s no doubting who has...
1 October – I want you to tame my fire now
We're looking at a country that tries today. And it's a country that's become associate with one act even though a number of others...
San Marino: 2 Questions … Followed by some more
Where is Valentina?
Where Is Mr Flo Rida
At least one of those was answered within the first three minutes - although those three...
San Marino, maybe baby
Valentina is recreating Botticelli's Birth of Venus by singing in a pearly white dress in front of a fabric clam shell. Her flame hair...
‘lil Italy will have to try harder
Phil: Now I don't know whether or not Miodio from San Marino is supposed to be off key in the beginning 25 seconds -...
27 February – Always putting up a show
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...
If we all hit Ralph Siegel …
... then maybe, just maybe, he won’t ruin the careers of any more artists like he is about to do to Michele and Anita.I...
Senhit has a shot of Adrenalina for the contest
So it appears that baby RAI have chosen to go with an uptempo banger with the assistance of famed rapper Mr Flo Rida -...
San Marino picks emerging artists for Eurovision showdown
It was the last but one outing for San Marinese TV's patchy 2022 Eurovision experiment - you really can't argue they try something new...