Killing Heidi are back, 25 years on: ‘Growing up in rock’n’roll gives you a shitload of grit’

‘It takes a little longer to become an adult that can hold different phases of yourself’ … siblings Ella and Jesse Hooper from the rock band Killing Heidi. Photograph: Jessica Hromas/The Guardian

In 2022, Ella and Jesse Hooper, siblings and bandmates in Australian rock band Killing Heidi, lost both of their parents in the space of two weeks. Their father, Jeremy, died first after a shock cancer diagnosis and a quick decline; a fortnight later, their mother, Helen, passed away after a long struggle with breast cancer.

The grieving siblings took the weekend off, then went straight back out on to the road.