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Warne Livesey
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Name
Warne Livesey
Role
Music Producer
Nominations
Juno Award for Recording Engineer of the Year
Similar People
Matthew Good, Matt Johnson, Holly McNarland, Dave Genn, Kevin McMahon
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Warne Livesey (born 12 February 1959) is an award winning British music producer, mixing engineer, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his production work with Midnight Oil, The The, Matthew Good Band and Deacon Blue.
Warne Livesey started his career in London, England as a musician and sound engineer, working with producers like David Lord and Rhett Davies. This led to early production work during London's rapidly expanding independent music scene in the early 1980s. In 1986 he teamed up with Matt Johnson to work on his The The album Infected. Livesey worked closely with Johnson on the record also contributing on bass and keyboards as well as arranging for strings. The album went on to sell more than a million copies worldwide. He also worked on the follow up album Mind Bomb in 1989. Following that he produced Saint Julian by Julian Cope before going to Australia to work with Midnight Oil on their album Diesel and Dust. The record went on to sell 5 million copies worldwide and in 2010 was named the best Australian album of all time. The opening track, Beds Are Burning, was an international hit and is included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 songs that shaped Rock and Roll. Livesey went on to produce three more records with the band; Blue Sky Mining, Redneck Wonderland and their last album Capricornia in 2001.
During the 1990s he produced many other artists including: Paul Young, Jesus Jones and House of Love, whose album Babe Rainbow he also co-wrote songs for. He also collaborated with Talk Talk frontman Mark Hollis co-writing most of the songs on his only solo album.
Relocation to Canada
In 1997 Livesey starting working with Canadian alternative rock artist the Matthew Good Band on their second album Underdogs. He produced the band's next two albums including the Juno Award winning number 1 album, Beautiful Midnight. After the band broke up in 2002 Livesey continued working with Matthew Good and to date has produced four of his solo records, including Lights of Endangered Species. in 2011, and his latest release, Chaotic Neutral. in 2015. He now lives and works out of Toronto.
