Reflecting On Music And Life With ELLA and JESSE HOOPER From KILLING HEIDI

It was the turn of the century, and everything was meant to be crumbling.
The Y2K bug had been and gone, but people were still unsure of their future - or the future of the planet for that matter - but amid all the gloom and chaos emerged a beacon of light, headed by a brother/sister combination, both still in their teens.
That band was called Killing Heidi and the release that changed it all, coming out in 2000, was Reflector.
Propelled by hit singles Weir, Mascara and Superman/Supergirl, Killing Heidi, and particular teenage frontwoman Ella Hooper, became the voice for disenfranchised youth everywhere. Their songs, filled with hope and belonging, gave people a view to a brighter future, which, coupled with the rags-to-riches story that accompanied the Hooper siblings, resonated with a much wider audience than the band's teenage demographic would suggest.
The band would go on to release another two albums over the next 25 years, plus took a ten-year break, but will forever be known and loved for that debut album.
Now, a quarter of a century on, Killing Heidi are celebrating Reflector by re-releasing the album as well as heading out on tour to take their music to the nation.
Jesse and Ella both joined HEAVY to discuss 25 years of Killing Heidi.
"We're pretty stoked," Jesse enthused. "We're getting the band back together for the 25-year anniversary of our debut album Reflector, and doesn't that make you feel young and old (laughs). We tend to mainly do festivals with Killing Heidi over the last eight years, so we're stepping back into our own headline shows, which is really exciting for us. We're going to play Reflector in full - which we've never done before - and it's gonna be a party."
"This is a big deal for us," Ella added. "We're putting on our big girl pants and doing our own headline tour with some amazing support acts as well."
In the full interview, Jesse and Ella discussed the tour in greater detail, reflected on their debut album and the success it brought them, ask what the album actually means to them, their thought process going into the album and their initial hopes, which of the songs are most personal to them, their youth at the time Reflector came out and if the success of the album forced them to grow up quickly, how those songs helped shape the people they are today, playing the album in full and how difficult it was to learn all of the songs and more.


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