Early History

A nucleus of Killing Heidi is singer/songwriter Ella Hooper & her older brother guitar player Jesse Hooper. It grew higher within Violet Town, the little Victorian united states town, sustaining the people of just about 2,000 in which their parents worked when music & drama teachers.

It began jamming together home & played an acoustical gig together at a Violet Town Arts Festival within 1996 including a few songs written by Ella world health organization was so aged Xiii. a local record studio creator offered them the few period inside a studio by owning a few class fellow when the percussion section. It submitted these recordings in the Triple J Unearthed in 1996 and their track Kettle won the competition for their locality of rural Victoria.

A title "Killing Heidi" come from either a band members giving ii lists; 1 filled by having "soft" words, a single sustaining "harsh" words. Killing wwhen chosen as a harsh, Heidi a soft.

Producer Paul Kosky who had worked using Crowded House, Kate Ceberano, and The Clouds was looking for the b& to handle and decided to prevent out the survive performance by Killing Heidi. He became the manager of the b& and intended a locate Roadshow Music, who got the locate Savage Garden.

Killing Heidi experienced likewise acquired the recently percussiin sustaining Adam Pedretti in drums & Warren Jenkin on bass. It recorded their foremost album around 1999.

Career Success 1999-

A 1st lone "Weir" was freed around August 1999 & went top V at a prevent of 1999. A 2nd lone "Mascara" was freed around December 1999 & reached a top of a Australian stock and index stock and index charts within January 2000 - it stayed at the top of the charts for tetrad weeks. A album Reflector was freed within early 2000 & debuted at #1. A third only "Superman Supergirl" likewise went top 10.

Reflector at length sold 300,000 albums inside Australia earning 5x atomic number 78 status & Sidesplitting Heidi won 4 ARIA awards in October 2000. Even so, the macd halted once a cyst was observed in Hooper's vocal cords & she underwent an operation around 2001. Her voice was slow to heal.

A band recorded its 2nd album Present despite Hooper's continuing problems by owning her vocal cords. A 2nd album Present wasn't when successful simply running gold by owning 50,000 sold & failing to produce a top x of the Australian album stock and index charts. It spawned ii singles - "Heavensent" which reached a top Xxx within early 2002 & "Outside of Me" which reached the peak of #12 down the road around 2002. A b& left Kosky following of on-going friction between a b& and manager and signed higher by owning Chris Robinson.

the b& went above to Los Angeles within late 2003 to record the comeback album and rented a home in the San Fernando Valley while the album was recorded. A songs were written two witharound Violet Town & in Los Angeles. A third self-titled album dollarfish for release within late August 2004. A foremost individual "I Am" was discharged in July 12, 2004 & debuted at #16 on the Australian singles stock and index charts. A song besides features on the Australian version of the Spider-Man 2 soundtrack. A album was freed inside late 2004 & manufactured it to #7 on a stock and index charts however fell out convenient individual reaching gold rather the album prior to, another single known as "Calm Down" was freed however failed to produce impact. 'We are' was a just really hard song on the album.

the band come presently working in a Fourth album

Members

When of 2004, Killing Heidi consists of:

Ella Hooper (vocals) Jesse Hooper (guitars) Adam Pedretti (drums) Warren Jenkin (bass)

the original b& got a different drummer and bassist however this lineup has recorded a lot of their albums.

Discography

Weir Single (1999) Mascara/Leave Me Alone Single (2000) Reflector Album (2000) Live Without It Single (2000) Superman Supergirl Single (2000) Heavensent Single (2001) Outside Of Me Single (2002) Present Album (2002) I Am Single (2004) Killing Heidi Album (2004) Calm Down Single (2004)