PAUL LIVINGSTON (aka FLACCO) 

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Paul Livingston managed to eek out a living for over three decades under the guise of FLACCO whose many television credits include: GOOD NEWS WEEK, THE BIG GIG, DAAS KAPITAL, MONEY OR THE GUN, two SANDMAN AND FLACCO SPECIALS for the Ten Network and THE SIDESHOW for the ABC. Flacco was a regular on the TRIPLE J BREAKFAST program from 1994 - 97.  FLACCO has toured extensively in Australia and internationally and since 2014 as “THE GUITARIST” with Tim Ferguson and Paul McDermott in the reformed DOUG ANTHONY ALLSTARS playing to full houses and earning five-star reviews in London and Edinburgh from 2014 - 2018. 

Paul has appeared in many features, including Vincent Ward’s THE NAVIGATOR earning a nomination for an Australian Film Institute award for best supporting actor.

As a musician he composed the soundtrack for the ABC D.A.A.S documentary, TICK F***ING TOCK.  An album THE TOWERS GROW DARK was released in 2018.

​Paul has authored six books to date, including his most recent, D.A.A.S. Their Part in my Downfall. A biography/memoir of life on the road with the Allstars, published by Allen & Unwin and released in November 2016, and his well-received non-fiction memoir of his father’s wartime experiences, ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE, published by Allen & Unwin, and released in November 2013.

​From 2007-2010 Paul was a co-writer on the animated feature film HAPPY FEET TWO (released in cinemas November 2011) creating the characters of the krill, Bill & Will voiced by Brad Pitt and Matt Damon. 

From 2008-2012 Paul joined the writing team for Network Ten’s GOOD NEWS WEEK, receiving five AWGIE awards.

Currently he is in the process of exhuming FLACCO for a reunion tour with THE SANDMAN.

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​For more information on Paul's activities in his spare time listen to him talking to Richard Fidler on ABC Conversations​