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 formed an experimentalnoise 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]
^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. ISBN1-86503-891-1. 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. ISBN978-1-921410-07-9.
