Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Marco Mengoni will return to the stage of Teatro Ariston and the Festival in Sanremo this Friday,. He will pay tribute to singer-songwriter Luigi Tenco. Last year Mengoni did wonder's when singing Tenco's Ciao amore ciao on Friday night and really cemented his newfound success with a very emotional performance, approved even my late Tenco's family. He also dedicated his victory last year to him and now.... he will be back singing more Tenco for all of us! It seems he will open the show, just like Ligabue did yesterday singing Fabrizio De André. How fab is that?

We are about to start the 64th Sanremo festival. I will blog and comment live so please tune in. Allegria! 20.35 The preshow has started with Pif. We have a quick lesson of Sanremo; it's people, food, sights and all sort of useless facts.... Quite useless even if quite funny at times. The festival itself could have started at 20.30 instead of 21, as it will drag on way past midnight anyways.... 20.51 Sigla Eurovision!  20.53 Technical mistake to start with, the curtain didn't open! LOL. Fazio needs to improvise the opening..... remembering the events in Italy resently, train accidents, floods... and then it seems there are protesters in the theater shouting to be heard.... to Fazio to read their letter... Oh dear, this is going to be a loooong night! 21.01 Fazio gets their letter on stage and intends to read it. The guys are escorted down from the ceiling. They seem to be workers with problems from Naples and Caserta. Social networks are already in fire. Is this p...