Killing Heidi

Killing Heidi is an Australian rock band from Violet Town, Victoria. The band, which went on hiatus in 2006, is most widely known for its multi-platinum album Reflector, released in 2000. In 2016, the band announced they were reforming for their 20th anniversary. The nucleus of Killing Heidi was singer/songwriter Ella Hooper and her older brother, guitarist Jesse Hooper. They grew up in Violet Town, a small Victorian country town, with a population of approximately 2,000 where their parents worked as music and drama teachers. They started jamming together at home; Ella singing while Jesse played the guitar. They played an acoustic gig together at the Violet Town Arts Festival in 1996, when Ella was 13 years old. Bent Records label owner and local record studio owner, Jamie Durrant, offered them some time in a studio with a couple of schoolmates as the rhythm section. They submitted these