Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

As usual the carefully selected media and journalists have had a chance to listen the songs in Sanremo festival in advance to be able to write at least something about them before the festival starts. The songs will be heard by common people only when performed for the first time on stage in Teatro Ariston, from February 7.  Our friends in eurofestivalnews have been busy checking out all the papers and what they have written counting the positive and negative comments, the no comments and the neutral comments. If we just put those comments in a chart like a medal table it looks like this (positive-negative-neutral): FIORELLA MANNOIA 22-0-0 MARCO MASINI 21-1-0 ERMAL META 19-1-0 PAOLA TURCI 18-3-1 SAMUEL 17-3-2 FRANCESCO GABBANI 17-5-0 FABRIZIO MORO 15-0-10 GIUSY FERRERI 15-2-5 RON 13-2-6 CLEMENTINO 13-4-5 CHIARA 13-5-3 RAIGE & GIULIA LUZZI 11-5-6 ALBANO 9-8-5 SERGIO SYLVESTRE 8-8-6 ELODIE 8-12-2 MICHELE BRAVI 7-9-6 NES...

Emanuele Lombardini, journalist and editor of Italian Eurovision site Eurofestival News and European music site Euromusica - Dove c'è musica has kindly reviewed the UMK 2014 songs for Blogilkar. Here goes:  1 - Madcraft - Shining bright Easy pop rock that is extremely radio friendly, at times reminiscent of " Salvem el mon " of Anonymous ( Andorra 2007). Historically, this kind of rock is not usually very lucky in ESC but the this is written well, it should deserve a chance. 2 - Dennis Fageström - My little honey bee Played only once, this is the only song that has immediate impact . Genuine pop, a song of love that typically works well. Radio friendly, simple, interpretation in line with the song. Would do much honor to the contest. 3 - MIAU - God/Drug The beat works, you start beating your foot along the music. Maybe a little repetitive, but you listen and start singing along on the first listening. The blonde singer surely works: her face and looks. A...

The Italian spokesperson, actor Ivan Bacchi has been interviewed by Eurofestival News . He reveals he not only a Nina Zilli fan but an Eurovision fan as well! He tells he was contacted by RAI just a few days ago and accepted immediately when he realized what he was asked to do. "I always watched Eurofestival as it was called when I was a kid. So when I was asked I was like "WOOOW!!!". This something I like and remember! I'm a fan of all kind of musical shows, especially competitions like X Factor. Last year I followed the Italian return with great interest and surely would have watched this year as well even if I wasn't involved myself." He further tells he will spend this Sunday watching the past few year's editions again with an eye on various spokespersons. "I have already received many compliments from my foreign friends for this but my Italians friends have been like "What is it?" proving RAI has a hard task to make Eurovision a ...