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 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.
References[edit]
- ^ "Freud's Pillow music, videos, stats, and photos". Last.fm. 16 November 2022. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
- ^ a b c d Gordon, Bob (2002). "Eskimo Joe's New Clothes". Rolling Stone Australia. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 5 February 2010.
- ^ "Eskimo Joe". Something in the Water. Archived from the original on 19 July 2008. Retrieved 5 February 2010.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ "Eskimo Joe". docstoc.com.
- ^ "Project One - Mission Blue". Music Australia. Retrieved 5 February 2010.
- ^ a b "One Horse Town kickstart tour with an interview on No Frills". PBS 106.7fm. 24 May 2005. Archived from the original on 7 October 2009. Retrieved 5 February 2010.
- ^ a b "One Horse Town". Unearthed. Triple J. Retrieved 5 February 2010.
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