Stuart Leach
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 Sasha Ion (vocals)(ex-Spank) in 2002, with the line-up including Kathy Potter before finalsing on a three piece outfit with Ronan Charles (ex-Seahorse Radio) on piano, with Ion taking on the guitarist role.[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.
References
- ↑ http://www.last.fm/music/Freud's+Pillow
- 1 2 3 4 Gordon, Bob (2002). "Eskimo Joe's New Clothes". Rolling Stone Australia. Retrieved 5 February 2010.
- ↑ "Eskimo Joe". Something in the Water. Retrieved 5 February 2010.
- 1 2 Nimmervoll, Ed. "Stuart Leach". Howlspace. White Room Electronic Publishing Pty Ltd. Retrieved 8 November 2009.
- ↑ "Freud's Pillow - Pleasure Puppy". 78 Records. Retrieved 5 February 2010.
- ↑ http://www.docstoc.com/docs/6301354/Eskimo_Joe
- ↑ "Project One - Mission Blue". Music Australia. Retrieved 5 February 2010.
- 1 2 "One Horse Town kickstart tour with an interview on No Frills". PBS 106.7fm. 24 May 2005. Archived from the original on October 7, 2009. Retrieved 5 February 2010.
- 1 2 "One Horse Town". Unearthed. Triple J. Retrieved 5 February 2010.