Leslie Hardy

Leslie Hardy is an American musician who has played for a number of Seattle-based bands, but principally as organist for Murder City Devils. She was bassist/backup singer for Hole in late 1992.

History Leslie Hardy grew up in Metro Detroit, Michigan.

She was Hole's bassist and backup singer for several months in 1992 to 1993. According to Rene Navarrette (a live-in friend of Hole frontwoman Courtney Love), the band moved her up from Los Angeles to Seattle, but her playing did not meet required standards. Hardy's picture appears on the EP version of the single "Beautiful Son", but she does not appear on any of the tracks, which were recorded after her departure.

Bassist Mike Johnson, then of Dinosaur Jr, was a fan of Juned. He produced and played on their first self-titled album in 1994, but the marriage did not last.

In 1998 she briefly played bass in Love as Laughter, before joining garage-punk band The Murder City Devils as their keyboardist/organist. The band had released its second album Empty Bottles, Broken Hearts and needed a keyboard player for its tour. Hardy became an integral part of MCD, contributing as a songwriter, and with her organ playing a key factor in the band's sound. After two years of pain from carpal tunnel syndrome, she received surgery on both wrists in mid-2001. Continuing pain over the next two months, however, forced her to leave Murder City Devils; its European tour was cancelled and it subsequently broke up for a time.

Hardy left Seattle and returned home to Detroit, where she has worked as a real estate agent and played in local band Pigeon. She joined Matt Skiba and the Sekrets as keyboardist for their 2012 tour; Skiba (of Alkaline Trio) did not know her previously, but invited her to play because he was a "huge Murder City Devils fan".

After her return to Detroit, Hardy played at a number of Murder City Devils reunion concerts,