Has anybody else seen a picture of this year’s set yet? Here’s a link for those who haven’t:

http://www.eurovision.tv/img/upload/news/2009/stageESC2009.png

I think it looks rather spectacular; a vast improvement on the rather weak offerings of recent years.

So what does everyone think?

Just an afterthought - as lovely as the stage design appears on paper, they'll probably go and ruin it all by shoving the audience right up against the front of it so they can stand up during the songs and block camera angels with their HUMONGOUS flags thus spoiling any sense of scale and grandeur, just like previous years.

Shame really.

"Fags wiv flags" we call them round our way.

Does saying that make me a really bad person?

I like the fact it's designed by the same bloke who did the 1997 set. I'm hoping it's a good omen.