Warne Livesey

Warne Livesey

Warne Livesey, 2012
Background information
Born (1959-02-12) February 12, 1959
London, England
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Producer
  • Mixer
  • Songwriter
Years active 1980–present
Associated acts
Website warnelivesey.com
Notable instruments
Bass, Keyboards, Guitar

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.[1]

Life and career

Warne Livesey started his career in London, England as a musician and sound engineer, working with producers like David Lord and Rhett Davies.[2] This led to early production work during London's rapidly expanding independent music scene in the early 1980s.[3] 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.[2] The album went on to sell more than a million copies worldwide.[4] He also worked on the follow up album Mind Bomb in 1989.[5] Following that he produced Saint Julian by Julian Cope before going to Australia to work with Midnight Oil on their album Diesel and Dust.[2] The record went on to sell 5 million copies worldwide[6] 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.[7] Livesey went on to produce three more records with the band; Blue Sky Mining, Redneck Wonderland and their last album Capricornia in 2001.[8]

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.[2] He also collaborated with Talk Talk frontman Mark Hollis co-writing most of the songs on his only solo album.[9]

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[10] 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.[11] in 2011, and his latest release, Chaotic Neutral.[12] in 2015. He now lives and works out of Toronto.

Eurovision

Livesey produced, mixed and also co-wrote the Swiss entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 called The Last of Our Kind with Rykka, Jeff Dawson and Mike James. Performed by Rykka.[13]


Discography

producer [p], mixer [m], engineer [e], songwriter [s]

[14][15]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Biographical data on Warne Livesey in:. International Who's Who in Popular Music. 11th. Edition. Routledge/Taylor Francis Group, 2009. Editor: Robert J. Elster. ISBN 978-1-85743-514-6 , p 321.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Warne Livesey In:. The Encyclopedia of Record Producers. Eric Olsen, Paul Verna, Carlo Wolff. Watson-Guptill Publications, New York 1999. ISBN 0-8230-7607-5 , p 479-480. (Review on: Review on Good Reads
  3. ↑ Profile: Warne Livesey by Kevin Young in Professional Sound Magazine. Norris-Whitney Communications. Vol. XV No.5. October 2004. p18.
  4. ↑ Warne Livesey in:. "Tips From 2011", Canadian Musician. Vol. xxxiii No. 5, Sept/Oct 2011) p52.
  5. ↑ Official The The biography, Sony Music. Reprinted here.
  6. ↑ The Peak Performance Project
  7. ↑ The 100 Best Australian Albums. John O'Donnell, Toby Creswell and Craig Mathieson. Hardie Grant Books, 2010. ISBN 174066955X, ISBN 978-1740669559, p 17/19. Read Excerts here.
  8. ↑ Midnight Oil Discography
  9. ↑ Are We Still Rolling?: Studios, Drugs and Rock ’n’ Roll. Phil Brown. Hal Leonard Corporation, 2010. ISBN 9781476856094.
  10. ↑ Matthew Good Band Biography at Musicians Guide
  11. ↑ Matthew Good gets experimental on Lights of Endangered Species. Sean Plumber. MSN Entertainment Canada, 2011.
  12. ↑ Matthew Good's Chaotic Neutral: An album build of trust. Leslie Ken Chu. Vancouver Weekly, 2015.
  13. ↑ Eurovision Song Contest Stockholm 2016
  14. ↑ Warne Livesey at AllMusic.com
  15. ↑ Warne Livesey at Discogs.com
  16. ↑ Western Canadian Music Awards
  17. ↑ Aria Awards 1988
  18. ↑ Aria Awards 1991

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