Stage of the Art

THIS is rather funky - a 3D animation of how this year's Eurovision stage will look on its three big nights. It must be a big job as - with six weeks to go until the Contest itself - construction work is already underway in Moscow.

Presumably, backing singers who don't hit the right notes will be squashed beneath that rising/falling doughnut bit in the middle as a post-show punishment.

And for those who believe in good hoo-doos, it's designed by the same man who last conceived a Eurovision stage design in 1997 - the set Katrina and the Waves won on.