Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

After the artists have been revealed in both Big ad Newcomes categories the rumor mill turns its attention to the hosts next to Claudio Baglioni, and the superguests. The names of Francesco De Gregori (66), Gianni Morandi (73)  and Renato Zero (67) seem rather certain, as well as the trio Nek (46), Max Pezzali (50) and Francesco Renga (49) - giving you more "grumpy old men" for your viewing and hearing pleasure.  As for the hosts Michelle Hunziker and Luca Argentero seem to be taken for sure, and now - like almost every year recently - emerges the name of Laura Pausini . If she can hold her own succesful prime time show, a few nights in Sanremo would be a piece of cake and she can do it so let's hope it is true! If Carlo Conti did his most to make Sanremo younger and hip again, Baglioni seems to be bringing back all the old glories but doing so, will he lose the young audiences again? Does quality and real music reign over disposable music and firewor...

Yesterday was a busy day in the Eurovision world but also in Italy something was going: the official press conference to present the co-hosts and the Italian guest stars. Last year Carlo Conti surprised everyone when he announced previous winners Emma and Arisa as his co-hosts but now it's back to more traditional. Or not quite: for the first time there will be a male co-host, actor Gabriel Garko. He's way to the fame is though quite similar to many female stars: He was crowned Il piú bello d'Italia in 1991, or Mr Italy. Fom photoshoots the step was short to movies and he's most famous maybe for Senso '45 directed by Tinto Brass where he appeared full-frontal. He also did a sexy calendar for Max magazine. Nine movies and countless television he now will please the female viewers of Sanremo with his presence. Romanian Mădălina Ghenea will be the other hostess. He's a model and actress. She also did the Italian Strictly come dancing and appeared in Eros Ra...

Remember the earthquake in Italy this May? 190 towns and villages suffered in six different Italian provinces; Bologna, Modena, Ferrara, Reggio Emilia, Mantova and Rovigo causing damage of 13,2 billion euros.  Today the big charity concert will be held to collect money for those in need and reconstruction of the area, especially the schools for 140.000 students who were left without proper school buildings. 150.000 tickets have been sold, eight special trains from all over Italy bring people to the venue in Reggio Emilia, SKY will broadcast the concert plus interviews with the artists on its channels and most every local radio station has united in collaboration to broadcast the concert live, too.  The gates opened at 9am and the concert is due to start at 8pm. The artists are: Biagio Antonacci, Claudio Baglioni, Elisa, Tiziano Ferro, Giorgia, Jovanotti, Ligabue, Liftiba, Fiorella Mannoia, Negramaro, Nomadi, Renato Zero and Zucchero . Unfortunately Laura Paus...

Miodio has been busy since Eurovision both in Italy and abroad despite scoring the dreadful last place in their semi and well undeservedly so, if you ask me! Their first hit It's ok that has been playing a lot in the Italian radiowaves for months has got finally a video featuring Italian soubrette Valeria Marini, Renato Zero's car, singer's real life girlfriend behind the wheel and sammarinese shopping center. Enjoy it here: http://www.miodio.org/