If i didn't think this girl was completely wasting her talent as
a singer and was not a damn good singer to begin with then
i wouldn't be too bothered to write this, because she seems
to be quite happy now living a diffrent life away from mu-
sic. Leigh-Chantelle Koch, who is now better known around
australia as being a passionate leader of the vegan move-
ment who dedicates all her time to spreading the gospel
of animal liberation and her opposition to the farming
of animals for human consumption on behalf of the ve-
gan movement at large, is definitely a better singer
than most of them who get on Australian Idol and
a better singer than even she believes she is, if
her exit from the music scene before her career
ever even began is any indication. Through the
grapevine, i did know Leigh-Chantelle before i
ever knew about her involvement in the ve-
gan movement, she worked down at JB Hi-Fi
where i use to buy my CD's and coincidently
we did get to know each other personally a
little bit. When i offered to help out Leigh-
Chantelle with leaflets a couple of years
ago for her Green Earth Day advertising,
she gave me a mini CD she had recorded
with the guitarist named Doug De Jong,
basically it's an EP containing five acous-
tic songs. In very amateurish style, the
CD is titled WHAT REMAINS, it is real-
ly home made looking, in fact the CD
package is plain white cardboard with
a black and white photocopied photo
of her and De Jong on the front, it
doesn't get any more primitive than
this, the CD itself is just a burned
disc. But as they say, dont judge a
book by its cover, Leigh-Chantelle
sings good enough to turn her own
ordinary lyrics into very soulful ren-
dentions which certainly are better
than just decent, her pitch is not
altogether unlike Pat Benatar and
Madonna, albeit not so impacting.
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