And so to our second week of looking at the 2009 Eurovision runners and riders.

We’ve only profiled two entries so far, but what have we learnt? Well, we’ve learnt that this is probably going to be the worst Eurovision Song Contest in all of history. And we haven’t even got to the French entry yet. That one almost made our ears pack up and leave our head. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves.

Here’s the 2009 Eurovision entry for Armenia, by Inga and Anush Arshakyan…

Armenia · Inga and Anush Arshakyan, Nor Par (Jan Jan)

Now listen here, Inga and Anush Arshakyan, we’ve just about had it up to here with Eurovision entries that begin with a noise that makes them sound as if they’re being used to advertise tourism in Cyprus on a continental hotel room English-language news channel. Absolutely had it up to here. And that’s only one of the crimes you’re guilty of with your Eurovision entry Nor Par (Jan Jan). The second is that you’ve both dressed up as sort of gothic Glow Worm toys to perform it. The third is that, 20 seconds into the song’s video, you seem to have taken some Ewoks to a rave in the hope that they’ll give Nor Par (Jan Jan) some direction. The fourth is that, underneath all this crap, the song isn’t all that terrible. Sadly, the fifth is that you both remind us of what The Cheeky Girls would be like if they replaced rampant attention-seeking seeking with a chronic cake habit. And that one’s unforgivable. Sorry girls.

On Monday: Azerbaijan’s Eurovision entry! Exciting!

Here it comes – another daily instalment of Eurovision betting odds. Exciting, huh? Oh, you big kidder, it is.

Eurovision fever is already sweeping the continent, you’ll be pleased to know. The Norwegian entry is number two in the Norwegian national charts, the Belgian entry is seventh there and this week’s entire top 15 in Sweden are all entries in the Eurovision qualifying round. Let’s pray that never happens here – anything that heps to give John Barrowman credibility as a judge is all wrong in our books.

Here are the Eurovision betting odds for Armenia, with help from Paddy Power…

Armenia – (pop. 2,976,372; a landlocked Eurasian country in the Caucasus region): Sirusho, Qele Qele

In Armenian ‘Qele Qele’ means ‘Let’s go’, as in ‘let’s go to the beach’ or ‘let’s go and drown animals for sport’. However, quite what Sirusho wants us to let’s go and do is never made explicit, partly because she spends quite a lot of the song wailing “From my Armenian soil I came to bring the wind of the mountains” like a vaguely apocalyptic gypsy woman. But don’t let the opening of Qele Qele fool you, because this song is one of the favourites to win Eurovision this year. We’re not sure why – it could be because it sounds a bit like Shakira, or because it sounds like Sirusho is singing “ooh Kelly ooh Kelly” and a lot of people called Kelly will vote for it because they’re thick. But even if Sirusho doesn’t win Eurovision for Armenia, at least the song is perfectly set up to soundtrack the sort of tourism commercials for North African countries that they show on news channels in continental hotels. Also, this is the third of our Eurovision betting odds profiles, and the third pretty female performer. A pattern forming? Current Eurovision betting odds – 6/1

Tomorrow: Eurovision betting odds for Azerbaijan! 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.