Eurovision Betting Odds 2007: Georgia & Germany

Time for yet another blast of Eurovision betting odds - because, even though we're in the papers and stuff today, it doesn't mean that there isn't still a borderline-awful pan-European singing competition happening in two and a bit weeks.

But before we start prodding around today's bewildering clump of Eurovision betting odds, we have some important Eurovision news - the Eurovision Song Contest intermission act has been announced. This year the interminable gap between the singing and the finding out who wins will be filled by a group of death metal cellists called Apocalypta who - since they're almost named after a Mel Gibson film - will presumably stagger about covered in gore for two hours before calling the Israeli entry a bunch of piggy tits.

Here are the Eurovision betting odds for Georgia and Germany, with help from Paddy Power…

Georgia (pop. 4,661,473; a country in Eurasia to the east of the Black Sea) Sopho, Visionary Dream

The hardest part of Eurovision is getting noticed - sing a ballad too dreary and it'll get swamped by the 40 other songs - but Sopho from Georgia has got the right idea. Her song, My Visionary Dream, isn't that great by itself; it's a floaty, fluffy Kate Bush-style whine full of nonsense like "Clouds containing lakes/ I'm near the haze of pouring light". But the performance of My Visionary Dream will stick in your memory. And possibly give you nightmares. And destroy your life forever. Because Sopho's performance of My Visionary Dream consists of Sopho in a big alien dress that gets bigger and smaller and thrashes and writhes around underneath her. We're almost positive that Sopho's dress is meant to represent something arty and profound - but to us, and we suspect most of Europe, it just looks like she keeps doing gigantic farts that lift her off the ground. Current Eurovision betting odds - 40/1

Germany (pop. 84,468,000; one of the world’s leading industrialised countries, situated in the heart of Europe) Roger Cicero, Frauen Regier'n Die Welt

Germany's Eurovision tactic is usually to pick one style of music and trample it until it stops moving. Last year it was country and western and this year, thanks to Roger Cicero, it's Vegas-style swing. Bad Vegas-style swing. By a man in a stupid hat. His song Frauen Regier'n Die Welt roughly translates to Women Rule The World - a song that's factually incorrect because, as we all know, the only things that women rule are kitchens and ironing boards. Oh come on, we're kidding. Anyway, Roger Cicero's reasoning for thinking that women rule the world is because they're just too darn pretty - "When I found out she wanted to save the environment/ I sewed 'No thanks' on my parka" Roger sings. In German. Accompanied by a bad swing track. While wearing a stupid hat. Current Eurovision betting odds - 40/1

Tomorrow - Eurovision betting odds for Greece and Hungary! But if that's too long to wait - or you feel like making more money than you know what to do with - head right over to the Paddy Power Eurovision betting odds page to see the latest, and best, betting odds.