You may remember our original Best of the Bunch series, which aimed to find the best Eurovision entry from each nation from the years 2006 to 2015. From that series, we created the ‘Ultimate Eurovision’ which featured the winners of each of the poll, which you can read here. Over the past year, we aimed…
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Through our Best of the Bunch series, we gave a recap on the Eurovision entries from 2006 to 2015 and gave you the opportunity to choose your Best of the Bunch. As you may remember, the current Best of the Bunch winners were put into our ‘Ultimate Eurovision’ but it’s time to see which of…
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There’s some serious talent coming from Italy, and we’re not just talking about the upcoming favourite to win Eurovision 2017, Francesco Gabbani. Although we can’t dismiss Francesco’s work, including his recently released album which we will be discussing, we also have to talk about some of the new releases from some of our favourite Italian…
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It’s always an interesting dynamic when a song very early gets labelled a favourite. You get the hard-core fandom rooting for the song, adamantly claiming it’s a definite winner. Then you get the sceptics who claim it’s all just a phase. Italy this year has fallen into that trap, being labelled as a winner quite…
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Since Francesco Gabbani’s win of Italy’s Sanremo Song Festival, he has remained as a firm favourite to also take out Eurovision this year, however his song, Occidentali’s Karma needed to be cut down to fit to the strict 3 minute time limit as prescribed by the Eurovision rules. The song has taken some significant cuts,…
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Italy’s long running festival Sanremo came to a conclusion last night, with the winner of the competition offered the opportunity to represent the nation at Eurovision in May. Over the past 5 nights, a total of 22 Big Artists and 8 Newcomers all performed on the Sanremo stage, however there could only be one winner.…
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