A true fantasy...

It has become traditional that each Eurovision Song Contest should have a theme, provided by the host broadcaster. This nonsense began in 2002, when Estonian broadcaster ETV hosted 'a fairy tale', where the two presenters fell in love (as usual), resulting in a break between the songs to allow them to sing an operatic song about music making them "sometimes sentimental". Not wanting to break with this ingenious idea, Latvia, the hosts of the following year, saw the two presenters yet again fell in love, the twist being that they didn't want to (ho! ho!)

In 2004, the theme was 'Under The Same Sky', celebrating the fact that the contest was in Istanbul, the only city in the world bordering two continents. Ukraine's 2005 'Awakening' was in reflection of their coming out of the Orange Revolution, and last year Greece gave us 'Feel The Rhythm', providing Terry Wogan to remark, in one of his more brilliant moments, 'I don't know about you, but I'm certainly feeling it' during the Turkish song.

So what of 2007? Well, Finland have opted for the theme 'True Fantasy'. Why, you may ask? YLE, The Finnish broadcaster have said that this can help for Finnishness to be embraced. By this, they mean looking at elements such as 'light and dark' and beauties of Finland to help create a magnificent stage. Hopefully, the stage won't look like all the other stages that graced us between 2003-2005, and will work on becoming more unique from its predecessors, like Greece did with its 'amphitheatre' last year.

YLE have also said that they want the Eurovision 2007 to become a fantasy for its viewers too. But when you see songs performed by Mancunian rappers, Lithuanian football chanters and, of course, Finnish monster rockers, it's clear that the contest is quite a way from reality.