Hollie Steel

Here are some lovely amateur videos made by Joe C of Hollie singing “Where are you Christmas?” and “Nessun Dorma” at the Christmas lights switch on in Preston. These videos are also available in the Gallery.

Don’t forget to pre-order Hollie’s single at HMV!

Hollie Steel’s single is starting to get some of the press coverage that it deserves, thanks to Nina’s excellent work in promoting her daughter. Today, there are articles in both the Lancashire Telegraph and Burnley Express.

Hollie’s single, Where Are You Christmas?, is performing well in the HMV presale charts, despite the fact it has not received any airplay yet. Hollie’s mum Nina told the Lancashire Telegraph that  after just three days of being available on pre-order, Hollie’s single was at Number 10 for the most pre-ordered single.

Nina is urging everybody to back Hollie with more orders to help her dream come true and get Hollie a top ten hit for Christmas.

Nina describes Hollie’s single  as “beautiful” and says: “Currently Hollie’s single is just behind Robbie Williams’ and ahead of singles by Nelly Furtado, Alicia Keys and Morrisey – and the single should be played across radio stations within the next week.

“It is only the pre-order charts and it is early days but she could have been on the last page and instead she is on the first so it is a good sign.

“Especially as no-one has heard the song yet!

“If we can keep her pre-order numbers high then it means that she will get more air time when the single is released.

“It’s a very, very similar idea to the song ‘Walking In The Air’ from The Snowman. It’s a beautiful Christmas song with some quite powerful high notes.

“It starts off really, really sweet but it shows two sides to Hollie’s voice. By the end she is singing in quite a strong opera voice.

“The song is from ‘The Grinch’ and before the Britain’s Got Talent thing started Hollie loved it. She’s loved it for years.”

Hollie recorded the single  in October with the VVR2 record label.

“Recording the single was really exciting for Hollie. She had lots of fun.” said Nina.

Hollie has signed a two-single record deal with VVR2 and is hoping to get a contract to release an album, which is due to be finished in the new year.

In other news, Rolf Harris disappointingly chose to record a single with Status Quo, instead of performing a song he had written about a grandfather and granddaughter with Hollie which he had previously planned to do.

On Rolf’s change of heart, Nina said: “I didn’t hear anything from his manager about the decision despite getting positive feedback in the beginning.

“It is a project idea and could still happen next year or the year after, though.

“Hollie is doing really well on her own and in some ways it would be better to see her make it into the charts on her own efforts.

“She would love to be in the top ten and I really hope everyone will support her.”

“Where Are You Christmas”  will be played for the first time on radio stations nationwide over the next week and will be released on December 7th.

Haselmaus, who many of you know from the website, Facebook and Bournemouth Pop4Diabetes, is trying to set up an event so that Hollie Steel will perform in Germany sometime during the week of 17th-24th July, 2010.

I was reluctant to write anything on the front page about this, with it not being definite. However, Haselmaus has informed me that Nina says that she “definitely” wants Hollie to perform in Germany, but does not have the time to do anything about that before Christmas, no doubt due to all the effort she is putting into promoting Hollie’s single.

Haselmaus is concerned that if she does not arrange the places now, then they will no longer be free. She is also concerned that Hollie’s fans know when the event may take place, so that they can keep the dates free.

Haselmaus says: “I want to send a message to all Hollie fans (from Bournemouth and Mick Uhl etc) who want come to Germany South Reutlingen (PLZ 72762). Today I went to the Freien Georgenschule and I have good news for you. I reserved the Hall in Reutlingen for the 29th week of July 2010.

“The Saturday of the 29th calendar week is the 24th July, 2010, if Hollie would like to sing there: http://www.georgensaal.de

“It would be nice if you could come earlier to see the Theatre, so then you can get a feeling for the place and if you like it, I could also reserve the flats in the Holiday village in http://www.feriendorf-gomadingen.de so Hollie, her family and the fans can spend one to two weeks there.

“Please email haselmaus47@email.de directly if you are interested in going. The Hall and Freie Georgenschule are located behind a nice park.

“At the moment, Hollie is not as well known in Germany as she is England.  I hope we can all help her to become better known.”

Hollie Steel and Nina were interviewed at the Preston switch on by ARRY ARRY BOY TV and there is also a short clip of Hollie singing “Where are you Christmas?”. Check it out here:

Here is Hollie being interviewed in Hong Kong:

And now we also have an actual scanned in copy of the article about Hollie that appeared in the Hong Kong Standard Newspaper, emailed to me by Olivia. Thanks Olivia!
Click here to view it.

For further videos and translations of Hollie in Hong Kong, see the Hong Kong Gallery for some great videos sent to me by Vicky.

Here is a message from Nina Steel, Hollie’s mum:

Dear Fans,

Hollie would like to ask you all a huge favour.  She needs 6,000 UK pre orders. I did a few calculations, if just 60 fans asked 100 of their friends or family to buy the single, then we’ve done it! If overseas fans ask UK friends or family to order for you, these figures will also be counted in the charts. The press have very high expectations of Hollie, expecting her to try for a Christmas Number One. The track certainly is good enough to achieve this, but we haven’t got thousands of pounds for promotion. We need all your help to make this happen.

Unfortunately, having a beautiful voice isn’t enough to get Hollie into the charts. We, Hollie’s family, are trying everything we can think of to ensure Hollie doesn’t feel she’s failed in this exciting venture. Thankyou for listening.

Nina x

Nina has asked me to help by uploading this promotional leaflet. We are asking you to help promote Hollie’s single by printing the leaflet out and giving copies of it to your friends and family.

You can also put it on noticeboards at work or at clubs you attend – you could even stick it in the back corner of your car window. Together, we can help Hollie to get the Christmas Number One!

Get the leaflet now – click here (it is in Microsoft Word format – if you can’t view it correctly, let me know and I will covert it to PDF for you.)

Thank you.

PS. Georgi has also suggested that all the fans who have their own YouTube videos of Hollie  put the pre-order link in the video description.

Olivia has just informed us that one of Hollie Steel’s performances in Hong Kong has been broadcast on the TV there. Fantastic!

It’s about time we had more of Hollie on our screens here in the UK …

Hollie’s debut single, “Where are you Christmas?” is now available to pre-order at HMV. Yay!

I have just ordered my copy online now and it was a simple process. The single costs £1.99 and delivery is free in the UK. Shipping to Europe is £2.50 and the  Rest Of The World £4.50.

Remember, Dave D’Mello says buy no more than 5, and sales from outside the UK do not count towards the charts, so if possible get a friend from the UK (if you have one) to get your copy for you.

To know the cost in your local currency, you can do a currency conversion at XE.com.

Here is a lovely video of Hollie singing Nessun Dorma and Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again in Hong Kong just a few hours ago. Thanks to Yau for posting it on Youtube, and to Wouter for letting me know about it. I know that Jason, Hollie’s dad, will really enjoy seeing it.

This video is also available in the gallery.

Click anywhere on the image below to download the full top quality press release in PDF format (you will need to download the Adobe Acrobat PDF reader if it is not already installed on your computer).

The PDF download will only be available for the next seven days.

Dave D’Mello says:

Sorry I have not been updating as really been very ill this week. Presale link will be with us on Friday hopefully and will also be releasing the forthcoming gigs and appearances. (I) have been informed by the distributors that if fans buy up to 5 copies of the single for friends and family then this is okay, but anything higher may cause a problem. Email me on info@vvr2.co.uk if you would like a PDF copy of the short version press release with exclusive photoshoot.