Swiss Cheese

It seems that there is an ever growing popularity for this year's Swiss entry, Vampires Are Alive by DJ Bobo. It's coming up quite strongly in the fan polls and William Hill bookmakers this week have it as the favourite to win at 7/1. Indeed it seems to be the favourite of all bookies at the moment with Sweden dropping down.

So what are the chances of Switzerland winning Eurovision? Well, I'm beginning to think quite strong. It's a good little song, catchy and a lot of fun, and as someone said to me, "If Europe'll vote for monsters, they'll go for vampires". Certainly a vampirical stage act could work in their favour... a lot of people are predicting this to win now. It's almost a certain qualifier and a certain winner too? I think it could go rather big...

Switzerland isn't the only mover and shaker with William Hill this week. Bulgaria are up to 10/1 (I still don't believe this'll qualify), Malta are up to 25/1 (about time!) as are Turkey and the dark horses of Latvia - obviously plenty of bets were placed on this when it was 50/1! Bosnia & Herzegovina are up to 33/1, but the Netherlands stay at 100/1 - unfair!

So if the bookies are to be believed, Switzerland are going to be the champs this year. It's doing well in fan polls too, although Serbia's Molitva is the clear fan fave at the mo. Still, you can't deny the power of a gimmick, and vampires may be the way to go this year.