11Feb2003
- The Killing Heidi Realm: The Answers with Ella Hooper
Ella
Hooper talks with Claire Halliday, answering some unique questions. Q-What material possession couldn't you live without?
A-My ghetto blaster. I've had it since about year ten. It's a very
modest, crappy little thing but it gets played almost every night. -What book do you return to most often?
There's a few books I've read a lot. I've read The Hobbit a lot
of times. -If money were no object, where would you live?
I'd love to try living in Paris, but I think you'd want to be rich. -What would your last meal be?
I'd say it would probably be a kick-arse, home-made lasagne. My
mum's really good at it. -What do you love about Melbourne?
Everything. I'm so in love with Melbourne and I get more in love
with it every year. -What do you hate about Melbourne?
This is a hard one. Probably the Starbucks and the Hudson's Coffee
places popping up everywhere. -What has been the happiest day of your life?
It's pretty hard to pinpoint. I had a bit of an epiphany on the
beach the other day. Just realising that I was pretty blessed with
the best friends in the world and the best job in the world. It
just all crystallised. -What do you regret?
I suspect I might regret not applying myself a bit harder at school. -Where do you escape to?
The bush in north-eastern Victoria. I get there pretty often. I
love that land. -What are you afraid of?
Nuclear war. -What's your favourite sound?
The sound of people snoring next to me. After a party when everyone's
passed out and you hear all these weird sleeping noises. I know
I'm at home. -What's your favourite smell?
Jasmine in the morning. -What makes you happy to be alive?
Music. Just being a part of it. -When did you last cry?
I don't cry much. I think I almost had a bit of a cry when I found
out my dad was selling my childhood house. -What was the last thing you bought that you shouldn't have?
That happens every 10 seconds. Probably a pair of shoes. I saw them
and I couldn't resist. -What are you good at?
I think I'm a good mediator. -Have you ever had a mentor?
I've had a few. I've definitely got a few people in the music industry
that I look up to. My brother, Jesse, has been one. He's a bit of
a rock. -What's your favourite piece of music?
Sweet Thing by Van Morrison. I really love old Van Morrison. It
brings back my whole childhood. -When did you last get drunk?
Last Tuesday night, at a friend's beach house at Point Lonsdale.
It was for no reason at all, really. -Who did you last kiss?
A very, very cute boy on Wednesday morning when I was leaving the
beach house. <click
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Sunday Age 09Feb2003
11Feb2003
- The Killing Heidi Realm: St Kilda Festival Review
The
sun came out and so did the crowds, with hundreds of thousands flocking
to the 24th annual St Kilda Festival.
Huge
crowds at St Kilda revelled in brilliant weather, ensuring the annual
event, which caters to all tastes, was at it's fun-loving best.
Killing
Heidi performed a 45 minute set on the St Kilda beach foreshore.
Songs from both Reflector and Present, including a few acoustic
numbers were performed.
It
was their last show in Melbourne, as the band were heading off to
London on the following day. <click
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08Feb2003
- The Killing Heidi Realm: St. Kilda Festival
The
St Kilda Festival is primed to go off this Sunday (Feb 9) with a
huge line-up of local and international music acts all free. Catch
Lisa Miller, Killing Heidi, Motor Ace, Dan Brodie, Hoodangers, and
heaps more at the many venues around St Kilda (Melbourne).
International acts include DJs Normal Jay and Giles Peterson, who
join excellent local DJs Anthony Larr, DJ Peril and Delmo.
Check out the markets while you are there and have a look through
the community garden if you have a bit of a green thumb.
It's a whole day and night of rocking good fun. <click
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MX 07Feb2003
08Feb2003
- The Killing Heidi Realm: Going Steady
A
couple of years back, Killing Heidi were on top of the world. As
Ella Hooper celebrated her 18th birthday, her band were topping
the charts with their debut album Reflector and had a headline slot
on the Big Day Out tour.
Well, Ella turned 20 last week and things were a little more subdued
this time around. The band's second album, Present, dropped out
of the Top 100 after nine weeks and the band - according to Hooper
- are keeping a deliberately low profile, staying at home writing
new songs with the plan of releasing an acoustic album by year's
end.
Are they stressed by the apparent change of fortune? Not at all,
Hooper told Cameron Adams this week in Melbourne. "We're cheerful
to the point of stupidity," she says. "I'm amazed and
surprised at how well it [Present] has done [the album went gold,
i.e. it sold over 35,000 copies]. I didn't expect anything like
Reflector. It's a completely different album.
"I'm a lot prouder regardless of sales because the people who
bought this album are doing it because they want to and not because
hype is telling them to.
"I still think the album has got a lot more life left in it.
This band is a journey and we're still in the infant stages of this
journey. We plan to be around for a lot longer than two albums." <click
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Herald Sun - HIT 06Feb2003
08Feb2003
- The Killing Heidi Realm: Killing Heidi gig - Queensland
It
looks as tho the band are heading to Queensland for atleast one
gig.
Killing Heidi, along with suports Sixfthick and The Daybridges are
performing at Gardens Point QUT Guild Bar, February 27, 2003. <click
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Courier Mail 07Feb2003
04Feb2003
- The Killing Heidi Realm: Heading to London
It hasn't been since mid 2001 that Killing Heidi have toured estensively
in another country (not counting New Zealand), but its now official
that the band are heading to London to perform a select number of
shows.
For
the few Killing Heidi fans located in the UK this will provide a
rare oportunity into seeing the band perform, and perhaps meeting
them. It also provides the band to perform infront of a new audience,
which hopefully will just be the begining for UK domination. <click
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04Feb2003
- The Killing Heidi Realm: More Mooney Valley Details
As reported
here previously, Killing Heidi will join Space Like Alice as
they deliver what surely is to be a spectacular night in both rock
and racing in Melbourne.
Tickets
are just $15, plus booking fee. Available through Sanity Music (Melb.Metro
only), or via www.somethingoutofnothing.org.
You
can view the two flyers for this eent here : Flyer
1 - Flyer
2 <click
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and Somethingoutofnothing
04Feb2003
- The Killing Heidi Realm: Young given licence to air views and
news
By Georgina Safe
"Don't hate the media, become the media." - The words
of Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra became reality yesterday
when youth seized the airwaves to launch the nation's first radio
station run by young people for young people.
No producer, presenter or manager at SYN FM is aged over 26, with
many only 12, making it the youngest station ever to be awarded
a licence by the Australian Broadcast Authority.
"Too often this segment of the population is neglected by the
mainstream media," SYN station manager Jo Curtin said.
Other youth-orientated stations such as Nova FM and JJJ were often
programmed by people aged over 30, making them more conservative
and staid in comparison to SYN, the 23-year-old said.
"Our station is about treating young people as creators, not
just consumers of the media," she said.
Killing
Heidi singer Ella Hooper said SYN would be a unique opportunity
for young people to be heard and make an impact, as it was rare
to find producers and presenters under 26 in any electronic media.
"This station will be more like listening to your mates showing
off their CD collections than listening to two bald dudes with really
bad voices," the multiple Aria winner said.
"It's empowering and exciting to see the power of the media
being enriched by the youth of today."
On the theme of reclaiming the airwaves from the baby boomers, yesterday's
broadcast kicked off with a cover by young Melbourne outfit Biftek
of Cliff Richard's paean to the radio, Wired For Sound. Programming
ranges from hip-hop, alternative and punk to trance, metal and drum'n'bass,
to reflect the diversity of the listeners.
But when SYN pipped 18 other aspirant community stations to snare
an ABA licence in 2001,, the PR was not all positive, with criticism
from commercial rivals.
SYN
FM is an initiative of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology's
Student Radio Association, which has funded the station with additional
support from the Harold Mitchell Foundation, the Foundation for
Young Australians and other corporate philanthropists. <click
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The Australian 29Jan2003
