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 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 sold 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 sold 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 five more records with the band; Blue Sky Mining, Redneck Wonderland, Capricornia, The Makarrata Project, and their last album Resist.[8]
In 2019 he reunited with Midnight Oil to record their first music in 18 years. During the sessions the band recorded two projects, the first of which The Makarrata Project was released on October 30, 2020, and entered the Australian album charts at Number 1.[12] The second album Resist was released a year later also debuting at Number One.
^Matthew Good gets experimental on Lights of Endangered Species. Sean Plumber. MSN Entertainment Canada, 2011. [1]Archived 19 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine
^Matthew Good's Chaotic Neutral: An album build of trust. Leslie Ken Chu. Vancouver Weekly, 2015. [2]