Jaimie Leonarder (born 1958, Sydney) also known as Jay Katz is an Australian musician,

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, film critic, radio announcer, and DJ.

Biography

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 was Australia's representative in the 1987 Miss Universe Competition. Leonarder trained as a nurse studying both general and

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nursing and has worked in

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, as a youth worker, a diversional therapist, and managing the Hurstville C.Y.S.S. centre. Leonarder formed an

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band called the Mu Mesons (1982–1999), Note: n-lineversion established at White Room Electronic Publishing Pty Ltd in 2007 and was expanded from the 2002 edition. 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

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, Ron Brown and ex-

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member,

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. He was the subject of the documentary film ''Love & Anarchy: The Wild Wild World of Jaimie Leonarder''. With

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and

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in 2005 and 2006, Leonarder co-hosted ''

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'', a film criticism show broadcast on

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. He hosted ''The Naked City'' (a radio show on

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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

External links

Mu Meson Archives website and program of Jaimie's activities
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Love and Anarchy: The Wild, Wild World of Jaimie Leonarder
1958 births Living people Australian film critics Australian musicians Special Broadcasting Service Australian archivists {{Australia-journalist-stub