Andy Abraham: 'Even If'

Andy Abraham goes into this year's Eurovision Song Contest equally cursed and blessed. On the one hand, the Slavic nations' fondness for voting for their geographical neighbours - a trend Terry Wogan and the tabloids like to call "political voting" - means he's unlikely to finish higher than 17th; on the other, he can't do any worse than Scooch, the pop no-hopers who provided last year's embarrassing, horribly dated UK entry, 'Flying The Flag (For You)'.

Though 'Even If' could quite easily have emerged from a time capsule buried in 1978, it's not a bad Eurovision song: a big, blousy slab of hen party disco with lyrics that sound less terrible if English is your second language ("Your sensuality thrills me, it strips me to my soul" - ouch!). On any other day of the year, in any other place, this would sound hopelessly cheesy. But on May 24, on that kitsch-filled stage in Belgrade, it might just go down a treat.