We have a winner of ‘Sanremo 2016’ If you were watching from tonight (and all week)then you will see that we were in for a tricolour of Italian music from The Teatro Ariston in San Remo. The Top3 classified after the first votes were in were STADIO, GIOVANNI CACCAMO & DEBORAH […]
There is something quintessentially Italian about the Sanremo Music Festival – That’s why we love it! Last night was show 2 of the festival. We saw the 20 acts in the Campioni Category perform again and the Top 6 and Bottom 4 were posted – in no particular order. […]
Italian Style At It’s Best Last night the first round of the prestigious Sanremo Music Festival 2016 took place. The winner of the Campioni category will have the right to go to Eurovision 2016. If they decline the opportunity then the Italian delegation will look to the other […]
Stockholm is the venue for Eurovision 2016 and today the 43 countries began their journey (aka Marathon) for glory in May as the draw took place today for the Semi Final allocation. This is a ROLLING BLOG beginning at 11:15CET and you can WATCH HERE. You know the […]
In less than four months, we will have been to Stockholm, picked a winner and started planned to go to <insert country name here>. But did you know that Sweden’s capital is one of a select bunch of cities that have been in the title of a Eurovision […]
BETTING ODDS – With only 3 songs selected for Eurovision 2016 – Nicky Byrne from Ireland, Laura Tesoro from Belgium and Eneda Tarifa from Albania you would imagine that the betting odds for the contest would not be up to much at the moment. How wrong you would […]
Carlo Conti who is the presenter, musical director and heartbeat of the Sanremo Music Festival spills the beans (cannellini probably) on the participants in the 2016 edition of the prestigious contest. Speaking on Italian television Conti said “The choice of the singers in the competition was tough,” says […]
The EBU have released the split votes for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015 that took place in Sofia last month and we break them down with a look at where the Juries and Public disagreed. The Overall Results 1 – 185 points – Malta 2 – […]
The Grammy Awards were announced and big names dominate the proceedings like Kendrik Lamar and Taylor Swift. However many Eurovision singers have over the years been nominated and won one of the coveted Golden Gramophones! So who? “Nel blu dipinto di blu”, popularly known as “Volare” (flying), is […]
Welcome to Sofia and welcome to our rolling blog for the Day 5, the Jury Final, of final dress rehearsals if you will, of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015. John of this Parish will be blogging tonight and Phil from OnEurope may chip in but he is concentrating on […]