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Stuart Leach is a musician from Western Australia.

Stuart Leach [1] was originally the drummer in Carpet, [2] a funk band formed by Leach's brother Simon (guitar) and fellow year-12 Hollywood Senior High School student, Joel Quartermain (guitar), in Perth, Western Australia. [3] Simon Leach inviting a friend, Kavyen Temperley (bass, vocals), who he shared a rental house with, [2] to join them. With Temperley on board, the band changed its name to Freud's Pillow, [2] [4] performing around Perth and Fremantle between 1995 and 1998. The band managed to release only one EP, Pleasure Puppy in August 1997, [5] featuring a collection of songs Temperley had written as a teenager, one of the songs on the EP, "Mr Hoek", was written by Temperley’s friend Stuart MacLeod. [2]

The band disbanded [6] in 1997 when Temperley and Quartermain together with MacLeod, won the National Campus Band's Competition as Eskimo Joe. Stuart and brother Simon went on to form The Mission Blue [4] with Jodie Tesoriero (National Campus Band finalists in 1998), releasing an EP Project One in 2000. [7] The Leach brothers formed One Horse Town, with Spank vocalist Sasha Ion in 2002, and Kathy Potter. The band finalised on a three piece outfit with Ronan Charles from Seahorse Radio on Rhodes piano, and Ion on vocals and guitar. [8] [9] Simon Leach went on to join Little Birdy in 2002. The band released a self-titled EP in October, 2004 [8] and an album Six Feet of Snow in 2006. [9] The band disbanded in March 2007 when Ion relocated to Melbourne. Leach then joined The Bank Holidays, where he replaced the band's former drummer, Stafford Chater later in 2007.

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