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]