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Mar
16
2024

🇮🇹 No boredom for Italy: Reviewing Sanremo 2024

Comedy, JOYEurovision: The Show, Music, National Finals, Society & Culture

Italy is famous for many things, but in the music world, they're famous for inventing Eurovision. The original song contest, ...

Mar
18
2023
Mar
21
2020

Get your Italian womp on: Reviewing Sanremo 2020

JOYEurovision: The Show, Music, National Finals, Society & Culture

Italy celebrated their music biz with the craziness that is the Sanremo Song Festival. Michael, Liam and Io had their picks ...

Mar
25
2019

It’s the original: Reviewing Italy’s Sanremo

JOYEurovision: The Show, Music, National Finals, Society & Culture

Eurovision's precursor was another massive effort this year, but Michael, Liam and Io whittled it down for your listening pleasure. We ...

Feb
17
2018
Feb
22
2016

2015-16 #10: More votes, more winners, more music

Music, News, Society & Culture, Uncategorized

Fourteen days have passed and it feels like months have, with all the news that has come around. Countries are busily ...

Feb
15
2015

Italy: It’s a heap o’ Love from Il Volo

Music, National Finals, News

Italy's premier song contest, Sanremo Song Festival, has concluded its 65th edition with a winner who is off to Vienna ...

Mar
17
2012

Musings – Se muziko estas la nutraĵo de amo – lingo again !

Musings, Uncategorized

Adapted from a blogpost published at The Full Catastrophe The issue of language and the Eurovision is always a hot one. It ...

Mar
14
2012

Italy reconsiders

National Finals

First the news. Italian public broadcaster RAI has  confirmed that Nina Zilli will sing "L'Amore È Femmina" (Love is female) on ...

Mar
5
2012

Musings – Strike up the band ?

Musings, Uncategorized

Posted by Andrew Bell - adapted from a blogpost at The Full Catastrophe As Hikaru & I talk to those who've ...

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