| 22nd June 2001 |
Chart - topping rockers Killing heidi have rejected an offer to record their second album in America in favour of Australia.
"Our American record company said 'You've got to record here, we'll get you a big American producer'", singer Ella Hooper said yesterday, "and we were like 'we want to record in Melbourne'."
Killing Heidi has started pre-production on a second album, the follow-up to REFLECTOR, which spawned the Top 10 hits WEIR, MASCARA and LIVE WITHOUT IT and helped Hooper and brother Jesse win an APRA award for songwriters of the Year last month.
REFLECTOR was also released in America, where the band has started to make inroads after three successful tours.
Killing Heidi have rented a house outside Melbourne for three weeks of rehearsals before they enter a recording studio next month.
"Going back and forther to America was going our heads in", drummer Adam Pedretti said. "We had to get home and do a new record."
"You could spend forever touring America," Hooper said. "If we had kept going at that rate we would have put the new record so far back."
"This is our home," Pedretti said. "We don't want people to think we're over and done with (in Australia)," he said.
Hooper, who turned 18 in January says she's been partying ever since. "My new nickname is Little Boozy. I'm legal now. I once got in trouble for drinking a sip of champaign when MASCARA went to No.1, but I can do whatever i want now."
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