Eurovision Song Contest. GREECE IS THE WORD! The cultural high point of the year has to be the annual cheese fest that is The Eurovision Song Contest, which hits your screens this Saturday night. Your hard working tipster has endured hours of aural torment and visual vomit to whittle down the contenders and find the pearls in amongst the poo, and believe me there is a lot of sonic excrement this year. The good news is that there is a great value e/w bet that will make the night worthwhile. It has to be Greece! Firstly it is perfect euro pop, well let’s be honest, it is a Ricky Martin tune ripped off and given a very modest Greek make over. When you hear it, you will think you have heard it before and familiarity is a good thing in a song contest, people will remember it. Secondly, Greece is the kind of country that other countries will vote for, even the Turks will bung them good points (and they will get a cert 12 from Cyprus). Politics counts as much as the song these days and Greece is well placed to pick up votes from its many near neighbours in the Balkans, Albania, Bulgaria etc., just what happened when they won 2 years ago. Finally, it lends itself to a good stage performance. I will be very surprised if this doesn’t finish top 4, and a win is very possible. 2 points e/w Greece to win the Eurovision song contest @ 28/1 with Skybet, BlueSq. lost 4 points Looking at VCBet’s book, I have to guess that their poor odds complier has been driven insane by listening to all this crap for too long. How on earth does he make Serbia 5/1 co-fav? It’s a big pudding of an eastern European ballad, sung by a fat, ugly moose. Maybe he is a chubby chaser, a deaf chubby chaser. At odds of around 6/1 Serbia have to be one of the lays of the year……something that cannot be said about the minger on vocals, sorry, the singer. Clearly driven to strong drink, Mr. VCBet then goes on to make Greece 5/6 to beat Cyprus. Now, watch the Cyprus entry if you must, but be warned that you may piss yourself in the process. Fill your boots! 10 points Greece to beat Cyprus @ 5/6 with VCBet. won 8.33 points Ukraine is the only one of the fancied favourites that looks worth the tag, but at 5/1 it makes Greece look huge value. They will score well on the ‘whacky’ factor as they are all dressed up like the Teletubbies meet Gary Glitter on acid. They will get the ‘visual vote’, but the tune is tripe. There are a couple of interesting entries, ones that actually have some musical merit. Georgia have a nice folky, arty, trippin’ track which will be just too sophisticated for the masses, but at 15/8 it looks worth a small bet to make the final. 3 points Georgia to make the final @ 7/4 with VCBet. won 5.25 points Bulgaria have an interesting folk-acid drum based track which sounds good and should have stage impact with the energetic drummer driving it, and a nice looking girl doing the vocal chanting and doubling on the skins (not a drug reference of course!). They have to get through Thursdays Semi-Final but at 7/4 they look value to finish ahead of the rather boring Belarus A.O.R. rock offering, their effort is a Bon Jovi rip off, very bland. Given the recent winners of Eurovision, it is clear you need something a bit eye catching and this lot just look your average posturing rock boys. 2 points Bulgaria to beat Belarus @ 7/4 with VCBet. won 3.5 points If there are copyright lawyers out there, you may want to check out Andorra’s entry and give Busted’s record company a call. The most flagrant rip off I have ever come across. It really should make the final, but at to do so, 4/7 is hardly value. The UK entry by ‘Scooch’ is 10/1 to get ‘nil point’ and that is just about what it deserves, but someone will spoil the party and give them one…….something the boys in the band will be delighted with. On the Gay theme, Denmark might just out camp Scooch with their very own version of Erasure. They should score well in terms of visual impact…..but the show is full of benders and the Gay vote is spread too thinly to carry much weight these days. Ireland have a great track record in this event, but do check out their entry by Dervish, and then tell me that this is not going to be the theme music for the next Tourist Board T.V. ad. Utter Bollox as they would say in Dublin. On a personal note, it would be great to see Israel winning with their very political ‘Push the Button’ by punky misfits Teapacks, but there is more chance of Chelsea winning the Champions League. To sample the various entries follow this link: http://www.eurovision.tv/addons/mediaplayer/player.html Enjoy, or at least try to. |
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