Norway: La Zarra is the winner of the first show of Addresse Liverpool!

The Norwegian public broadcaster NRK broadcasts a special show dedicated to the Eurovision Song Contest every year.

Adresse Liverpool premiered yesterday with the first entries of this year’s competition. Each week approximately eight songs are reviewed with the judges rating the songs from one to twelve points.

The presentation of the show has been undertaken by the Norwegian commentator Marte Stokstad, who will be joined by Ingeborg Heldal (music editor), Staysman (singer and presenter) and Kevin Vågenes (comedian). There will also be an additional celebrity judge to sit on the show’s judging panel each time.

This show featured Kim Wigaard (former MGP contestant).

The results of the first episode are as follows:

France – La Zarra – Évidemment – 96 Points (12 points from all judges)
Italy – Marco Mengoni – Due vite – 73 Points (12, 4, 10, 10, 10, 12, 10, 5)
Czech Republic – Vesna – My Sisters Crown – 62 Points (7, 6, 6, 7, 8, 8, 8, 12)
Malta – The Busker – Dance (Our Own Party) – 61 Points (10, 6, 10, 8, 1, 8, 12, 6)
Armenia – Brunette – Future Lover – 51 Points (4, 8, 12, 5, 4, 3, 5, 10)
Greece – Victor Vernicos – What They Say – 42 Points (5, 6, 7, 6, 2, 5, 4, 7)
Australia – Voyager – Promise – 41 Points (6, 7, 3, 4, 10, 4, 2, 5)
Croatia – Let 3 – Mama ŠČ! – 32 Points (5, 2, 6, 10, 6, 1, 1, 1)
Latvia – Sudden Lights – Aijā – 30 Points (6, 2, 1, 1, 3, 5, 8, 4)
Norway – Alessandra – Queen of the Kings – Not Rated

“Adresse Liverpool” will consist of four shows with an additional celebrity judge joining the show’s judging panel. The broadcast dates, additional judges and some of the countries that will be featured are as follows :

April 14 – Kim Wigaard (participated in MGP), for the Czech Republic, Norway and France .
April 21 – Agnete Husebye (YouTuber) , for Serbia, Ukraine and Denmark .
April 28 – Amanda Tenfjord (Greece 2022) & Fawad Ashraf (former Eurovision judge), for Iceland, Austria and Germany .
May 5 – Henrik Aasheim (deputy leader of the Conservative Party), Linn Skåber (comedian and writer), for Sweden, Finland and Moldova.

As always, there will be an audience jury voting on each of the shows led by Jim Ødegård Pedersen. In addition it has been confirmed that Marte Stokstad will return to NRK ‘s commentary booth for Eurovision 2023 and we will be listening to his commentary this May from Liverpool .