Hollie Steel will switch on Preston Lights on November 21st
November 10th, 2009 | 
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Hollie Steel will be attending the ceremony to turn on the lights in Preston on November 21st. The main show will start at 4pm with the switch on scheduled for around 5.30pm, according to the Lancashire Evening Post.
Also attending the switch on will be Lucie Jones, the X Factor finalist dumped by Simon Cowell in favour of John and Edward, girl band Mini Viva, former Bucks Fizz member Sally Jaxx and a previous X Factor finalist Laura White.
Laura White will open the show at 2pm, where a series of support acts will perform before the main show. For full details, see this article.
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Wonderful! The newsmedia mentioned that Hollie is going to release a Christmas single!
I am so happy she’s gonna sing at Preston switch on. Preston is a very beautiful city, I visited the Ribble Railway museum and rode a steam train – it was moved by a 1954 John Howe engine.
Preston is also the home of the British Football museum, chairman Bobby Charlton and vice-chairman Alex Ferguson. On display there is Maradona’s shirt he was wearing when he scored a goal with his ‘hand of God’ against England during the 1986 world cup. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbbsytHDp2o&feature=related
The city’s football club won the very first two championships in England.
It’s a great honour to Hollie to sing there.
And, if you allow me to continue my last post, the side referee of the 1986 game, who should have raised his flag after Maradona’s hand ball, was the Bulgarian Bogdan Dotchev.
Lucie Jones was dumped? When did that happen? I thought the competition was still ongoing.
Did I miss a week?
aw
The twins and Lucie Jones were in the bottom 2 for the sing off. The twins performed as usual, Lucie sang beautifully. Despite Simon Cowell’s earlier remarks that Lucie was the best female singer in the competition and that he would leave the country if John and Edward were to win, he chose John and Edward to stay in the competition over Lucie, meaning the result went on the (fickle) public vote, and Lucie received the lowest number of votes, probably due to the fact that the song she had sung was not that well known, and so was out of the contest.
Wow, never mind. I just took a glance at X Factor. I did miss a week.
Shocking.
The good news she and Hollie will be at the lighting together.
I’m going to go shake my head in disbelief.
a
I looked up the final of X factor, and although Simon Cowell was very nice to Hollie once, he was an absolute jerk to Lucie. How could he be so negative and mean towards this sweet, talented girl. Hollie was very lucky to meet Simon on one of his kind moments.
All I can think is that the tween girl population are voting by the millions for these guys. I suppose they are also great for viewership, and that’s just business. Ouch.
Oh well, I’m sure Lucie got the exposure she needed. As we all know, you don’t need to win to get the dream going, just the chance to show the world what you can do.
Hollie didn’t win, and neither did Susan Boyle. And look at the wonderful results anyways.
alex
Good luck Hollie! I’m so glad the article mentioned she will have a single out soon.
Is anybody goin to Preston for the switch on, me and Sean will be there.
Hi David,
nice to know you travel to Preston, because I have to stay here at home, I will go on Saturday to my old School, there is the Basar, and make knowledge with the new manager of the Hall Georgensaal.
Say Greetings from me to Hollie and Nina and make pictures en masse.
Haselmaus
I wish could be there to see Hollie. She had best performance. I know she will surprise everyone there. Good luck Hollie..
Good evening all.
I am writing today from Stafford town centre where I am with my car which has broken down on the way back to London from Preston. So, while I wait for 2 hours to be picked up by a generous family member, I thought I would share the days events with you.
We (David Nisbet, Sean and I) waited in the rain for about an hour or so watching the acts before the main show started. Hollie was the first performer in the main show and frankly, they should have just ended it there; it was fantastic! Hearing ‘Where are you Christmas’ for the first time was amazing and I cannot wait for the cd’s to turn up! She also performed Nessun Dorma which, as ever, was super.
We met briefly with Hollie and family after the show (albeit through a metal fence!) and spoke to Jason while Hollie was signing autographs and promotion leaflets for the single.
I recorded the performances and also the very brief interview afterwards and will share them with you if I ever make it home!
Overall, the cold, rain and broken car were certainly worth it to see another stunning performance from Hollie.
Until later,
Joe C