Jaimie Leonarder
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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]
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] In the same year he appeared on the SBS television program Alchemy with his wife Aspidisia, aka. "Miss Death", showing off his Scopitone jukebox machines.[7]
He was the subject of the 2002 documentary film Love & Anarchy: The Wild Wild World of Jaimie Leonarder.[2][8][9]
With Fenella Kernebone and Megan Spencer in 2005 and 2006, Leonarder co-hosted The Movie Show, a film criticism show broadcast on SBS television.[10][11][12]
He hosted The Naked City (a radio show on FBi Radio in Sydney) along with his wife and Coffin Ed until 2010.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
By the end of the 2020s, Leonarder has evolved to become vice president of UFO Research (NSW).[13]
References
- ↑ "Love and Anarchy". Music Australia. National Library of Australia. 3 November 2005. Retrieved 19 February 2010.
- 1 2 "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.
- ↑ Alchemy Archive (19 April 2023). Alchemy "Episode 4", 1998. Retrieved 7 February 2025 – via YouTube.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ https://www.thewire.org.au/story/ufo-report-creates-more-questions-than-answers/