Hang
on to your seats, hang on to your hats, hang on to yourself!
There’s a mighty storm about to break. Question: when was the
last time a local rock/pop band had their debut and follow up
single go Top 10 and platinum? It feels like a lifetime ago.
Killing Heidi, this young and effervescent quartet from the
Victorian country hamlet of Violet Town, have achieved just
that. Both singles whoosh! They pick up the listener, blow the
cobwebs out of their ears, spin the head and the body around
a few times before dumping them down dizzy, wanting to hear
more. ‘More’ has just arrived via a full length album, packed
with crunchy riffage and bouncy, summertime, transistor radio
tunes. One thing you can’t hear on the album is the buzz about
the group which is predicting that by the end of this year they
could well be the biggest band in the land. Right now, though,
they have done something that has put the lighted match to the
fuse: their second single “Mascara” has just hit number one.
I spoke to guitarist Jesse Hooper about guitars, the new album
‘Reflector’, and the effects of writing and releasing a chart
topping single.
