Jaimie Leonarder
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Jaimie Leonarder also known as Jay Katz is an Australian musician
, archivist
, social worker, film critic, radio announcer, and DJ.
, Leonarder attended Artarmon Public School and Crows-Nest Boys High School. He is the second of four children. His younger sister Jennine was Australia's representative in the 1987 Miss Universe Competition.
Leonarder trained as a nurse studying both general and psychiatric nursing and has worked in welfare, as a youth worker
, a diversional therapist
, and managing the Hurstville C.Y.S.S. centre.
Leonarder formed an experimental
noise rock
band called the Mu Mesons (1982–1999), and he still works as a DJ and occasionally puts on the "The Sounds of Seduction" night club.
In 1982, Leonarder was also a founding member of The Loop Quartet, a reel-to-reel tape machine band with fellow artists John Blades
, Ron Brown and ex-Severed Heads
member, Richard Fielding
.
He was the subject of the documentary film Love & Anarchy: The Wild Wild World of Jaimie Leonarder.
With Fenella Kernebone
and Megan Spencer
in 2005 and 2006, Leonarder co-hosted The Movie Show
, a film criticism show broadcast on SBS television
.
He hosted The Naked City (a radio show on FBi Radio
in Sydney) along with his wife Miss Death and Coffin Ed until 2010.
He hosts the weekly Cult Sinema night at the Annandale Hotel in Sydney and shows films and documentaries at his private cinema, the Mu-Meson Archives.
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
, archivist
Archivist
An archivist is a professional who assesses, collects, organizes, preserves, maintains control over, and provides access to information determined to have long-term value. The information maintained by an archivist can be any form of media...
, social worker, film critic, radio announcer, and DJ.
Biography
Born and raised in SydneySydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
, Leonarder attended Artarmon Public School and Crows-Nest Boys High School. He is the second of four children. His younger sister Jennine was Australia's representative in the 1987 Miss Universe Competition.
Leonarder trained as a nurse studying both general and psychiatric nursing and has worked in welfare, as a youth worker
Youth Worker
A Youth worker is a person that works with young people to engage them in informal education. Youth workers can work in many contexts. In the UK and elsewhere, the main distinction is usually made between statutory, those who work as part of a government run initiative, and non-statutory, those...
, a diversional therapist
Diversional therapy
In Australia, Diversional Therapy “is a client centred practice [that] recognises that leisure and recreational experiences are the right of all individuals.” Diversional Therapists promote the involvement in leisure, recreation and play by reducing barriers to their client's participation and...
, and managing the Hurstville C.Y.S.S. centre.
Leonarder formed an experimental
Experimental rock
Experimental rock or avant-garde rock is a type of music based on rock which experiments with the basic elements of the genre, or which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique....
noise rock
Noise rock
Noise rock describes a style of post-punk rock music that became prominent in the 1980s. Noise rock makes use of the traditional instrumentation and iconography of rock, but incorporates atonality and especially dissonance, and also frequently discards usual songwriting conventions.-Style:Noise...
band called the Mu Mesons (1982–1999), and he still works as a DJ and occasionally puts on the "The Sounds of Seduction" night club.
In 1982, Leonarder was also a founding member of The Loop Quartet, a reel-to-reel tape machine band with fellow artists John Blades
John Blades
John Blades was an experimental music artist and member of The Loop Orchestra, radio broadcaster, award winning radio documentary maker and civil engineer, from Sydney, Australia.- Experimental music bands :...
, Ron Brown and ex-Severed Heads
Severed Heads
Severed Heads is an Australian electronic music group based and founded in Sydney in 1979 as Mr. and Mrs. No Smoking Sign. The original members were Richard Fielding and Andrew Wright, and were soon joined by Tom Ellard. Fielding and Wright eventually left the group, leaving Ellard as a singular...
member, Richard Fielding
Richard Fielding
Richard Fielding was a founding member of the Australian electronic dance group Severed Heads in 1979 in Sydney. He has been a member of other experimental, avant garde music groups such as Z-Glutz, The Loop Orchestra and Budgie Woops! He has had a career as a radio presenter on various New South...
.
He was the subject of the documentary film Love & Anarchy: The Wild Wild World of Jaimie Leonarder.
With Fenella Kernebone
Fenella Kernebone
Fenella Kernebone is an Australian radio and television presenter, based in Sydney.Kernebone was just three months old when her family moved to Homebush, New South Wales, in Sydney’s west. She was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney in Croydon, New South Wales...
and Megan Spencer
Megan Spencer
Megan Spencer is an Australian documentary film maker who specializes in the 'guerrilla video' style of documentary portraiture. Based in Bendigo, she is also a prominent film critic, journalist and radio presenter.-Biography:...
in 2005 and 2006, Leonarder co-hosted The Movie Show
The Movie Show
The Movie Show is an Australian film review program that airs on SBS TV. Its history falls into three parts.-Original format:The original format, which ran from 30 October 1986 to 12 May 2004, had two presenters, David Stratton and Margaret Pomeranz. Stratton and Pomeranz left for the ABC in early...
, a film criticism show broadcast on SBS television
Special Broadcasting Service
The Special Broadcasting Service is a hybrid-funded Australian public broadcasting radio and television network. The stated purpose of SBS is "to provide multilingual and multicultural radio and television services that inform, educate and entertain all Australians and, in doing so, reflect...
.
He hosted The Naked City (a radio show on FBi Radio
FBi Radio
FBi is an independent, not-for-profit community radio station in Sydney, Australia. FBi places a heavy emphasis on local alternative music: it has a policy that at least 50 per cent of its music content is to be Australian, of which at least half comes from Sydney musicians.FBi began 'test...
in Sydney) along with his wife Miss Death and Coffin Ed until 2010.
He hosts the weekly Cult Sinema night at the Annandale Hotel in Sydney and shows films and documentaries at his private cinema, the Mu-Meson Archives.