Jaimie Leonarder
Jaimie Leonarder (born 1958, Sydney) also known as Jay Katz is an Australian musician, archivist, social worker, film critic, radio announcer, and DJ.[1][2]
Biography[edit]
Born and raised in Sydney, Leonarder attended Artarmon Public School and Crows Nest Boys High School. He is the second of four children. His younger sister, Jennine Leonarder-Collins, was Australia's representative in the 1987 Miss Universe Competition.[3]
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, Mu Mesons (1982–1999),[4] and he still works as a DJ and occasionally puts on "The Sounds of Seduction" night club.
In 1982, Leonarder was also a founding member of The Loop Orchestra, a reel-to-reel tape machine band with fellow artists John Blades, Ron Brown and ex-Severed Heads member, Richard Fielding.[5]
In 1998, he presented a selection of Scopitone films at Bondi's Flickerfest international short film festival.[6]
He was the subject of the 2002 documentary film Love & Anarchy: The Wild Wild World of Jaimie Leonarder.[2][7][8]
With Fenella Kernebone and Megan Spencer in 2005 and 2006, Leonarder co-hosted The Movie Show, a film criticism show broadcast on SBS television.[9][10][11]
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.
References[edit]
- ^ "Love and Anarchy". Music Australia. National Library of Australia. 3 November 2005. Retrieved 19 February 2010.
- ^ a b "Love and Anarchy - The Wild Wild World of Jaimie Leonarder (2002) - The Screen Guide - Screen Australia". www.screenaustralia.gov.au. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
- ^ Hornery, Andrew (10 September 2005). "Genuine Pearls of Wisdom - Spike - National". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 22 August 2010. Retrieved 2 December 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Spencer, Chris; Zbig Nowara, Paul McHenry with notes by Ed Nimmervoll (2002) [1987]. "MU MESONS". The Who's Who of Australian Rock. Noble Park, Vic.: Five Mile Press. ISBN 1-86503-891-1. Archived from the original on 15 October 2009. Retrieved 19 February 2010. Note: [on-line] version established at White Room Electronic Publishing Pty Ltd in 2007 and was expanded from the 2002 edition.
- ^ Andrews, Ian; John Blades (consultation) (2009). "The Lost Decade: Post-Punk, Experimental and Industrial Music". In Gail Priest (ed.). Experimental music : audio explorations in Australia. Sydney, N.S.W.: UNSW Press. p. 47. ISBN 978-1-921410-07-9.
- ^ Jinman, Richard (1 January 1998). "'60s Parisian cool caught in reel life". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 4 – via Newsbank.
- ^ Murphy, Kerrie (30 January 2003). "Quick bite: About us: Love and Anarchy -- The Wild, Wild World of Jaimie Leonarder". The Weekend Australian Magazine. pp. B16 – via Newsbank.
- ^ Australian Centre for the Moving Image. "Love and anarchy: the wild wild world of Jaimie Leonarder [Widescreen] | Brendan Young | 2002". ACMI collection. Archived from the original on 17 December 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Dubecki, Larissa (3 June 2004). "New faces for Movie Show". The Age. p. 10 – via Newsbank.
- ^ Buchanan, Matt (28 June 2004). "FILMbiff - The cover". The Guide; The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 4 – via Newsbank.
- ^ Petersen, Freya (3 June 2004). "SBS adds a youthful twist in sobriety for that movie show". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 7 – via Newsbank.