In 1993, RTE, the Irish national broadcaster, hosted the 38th Eurovision Song Contest, in Millstreet. The 68th Eurovision Song Contest, in 2024, is set to be the first time since Millstreet that all seven founding participating countries will compete at the same time. While Ireland took victory for […]
#BIRTHDAY: Al Bano from Italy is 80 today Our friends in Italy are a very musical bunch. ‘Only’ three wins, but with the capability to win far more often should they choose to. And they even choose the range of configurations, from soloists to groups. And even, occasionally, […]
Good evening Europe and good morning Australia, this is Liverpool calling! Tonight is the Grand Final Jury Show, during which the 37 juries around Europe and beyond will watch a full run through of tomorrow night’s live show and cast their votes. 26 countries will sing tonight – […]
Good evening everyone . Well, today saw the final day of technical rehearsals before the serious stuff starts on Monday with the live preview shows. The Big 5 plus Ukraine took to the stage to run through their second rehearsals. As yet we don’t seem to have an […]
Good morning everyone. Today sees the seventh day of rehearsals at the M and S Bank arena in Liverpool, UK . The Big 5 plus Ukraine will take to the stage for their second round of rehearsals. Unfortunately, as has been the case during all of this week, […]
Yesterday, the 1st Semi Final acts took to the stage for their second set of rehearsals. You can see brief video clips of how they got on HERE . Today , on Day Five , we will see the first 5 of the acts from Semi Final 2 […]
#ESC2023: EI Review Part 7 We at Eurovision Ireland like to review the songs in a contest, and this year is no exception. We’ve split the 37 songs over seven shows to give you our views. As last year, we’ll be scoring them out of 50. Can we […]
#BIRTHDAY: Fabrizio Moro from Italy is 48 today If you could put money on the next country of the Big Five to win, who would you pick? Italy was the last of them to win, but who’s to say that they couldn’t win again? Aside from winning in […]
#BIRTHDAY: Umberto Tozzi from Italy is 71 today Let’s go back to the 1980s. A world of orchestras, big hair, big shoulders, big everything. And a regular supply of the same countries taking part year in year out. That doesn’t always mean it was a bad thing. Our […]
Rai, the Italian national broadcaster, have revealed their broadcast plans for the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest, in Liverpool. The Semi Finals will be broadcast on Rai 2 this year, following an announcement made during Sanremo last week. The Semi Finals were previously shown on Rai 4, with the […]
Last night, Italy held its 73rd Sanremo festival in which the winner has the option to participate in the Eurovision Song contest 2023 .After a long night, Italy decided and Marco Mengoni emerged victorious with his song “Due Vite” . Most of you will remember Marco having competed […]
#BIRTHDAY: Blanco from Italy is 20 today Do you remember the contest in Turin like it was yesterday? The warm weather, the noteworthy stage, the act from 2020 stealing the show. It was good to be back to nearer normality. And, of course, we get the chatter about […]
RTS, the Serbian national broadcaster, have revealed that they will be providing live broadcasts of Italy’s Sanremo 2023. The first four nights will be broadcast on RTS 3. The Sanremo 2023 final, on February 11th, will be broadcast on RTS 2. It is currently unknown whether or not […]
RTCG, the Montenegrin national broadcaster, have revealed that they will be providing live broadcasts of Italy’s Sanremo 2023. All five nights of Sanremo will be broadcast live on TVCG2. It is currently unknown whether or not if RTCG will be providing commentary for the Montenegrin audience. Let us […]
RTSH, the Albanian national broadcaster, have revealed that they will be providing live broadcasts of Italy’s Sanremo 2023. Andri Xhahu and Blerina Shehu will provide commentary across the five nights. The first four nights will be broadcast on RTSH Muzike and Radio Tirana 1. The Sanremo 2023 final, […]