English: Pacino sprung to the attention of the public of Manchester with 90s rock band, Lloyd Almighty. With a string of local appearances, the band gained a good local following and completed a tour of the UK. The Boardwalk, possibly the most famous Manchester band venue after the Hacienda, played regular host to the Lloyds, who even outsold an early Oasis appearance there.

In 1992 Pacino sprung into the national limelight and placed his quiet Manchester suburb, Partington, on the world map, when he began working on art installations and fixed a gas cooker to an external wall of his house and “planted” a car in the front lawn. The installation became a world famous landmark and drew tour buses and featured on local tours of Manchester. Rarely out of the news, Andy’s reputation gained pace and he featured regularly on national TV programmes. Award winning documentary makers, Cutting Edge, featured Pacino in their Neighbours From Hell series, and he also appeared on former MP, Robert Kilroy-Silk’s self monikered early morning chat show. Newspapers articles, magazine features and radio interviews followed and it was a rare week he did not feature in the news in some way. With a scheduled Through The Keyhole spot, it seemed Pacino’s star was on the rise. However, as Pacino had begun writing, he decided to give the limelight a miss and in 1995 he headed off Bangor University. That signalled the end of Lloyd Almighty, who played only a handful of shows after that time, although their mini-tour of Universities across the North West saw a brief resurgence of interest from radio stations and music magazines in 1996. After gaining a BA in English Literature, Pacino concentrated on a career in writing and worked as a journalist for one of Britain’s most famous newspapers, the Daily Sport, where he rose to the position of Production Manager under the editorship of the BBC’s North West Tonight presenter, Tony Livesey, the two striking up a long lasting friendship. It was while working at the Sport that Pacino secured his first publishing deal, with a book describing the highs and lows of following Manchester United through the 1980s, when they were at their least successful. Pacino and his brothers forged a friendship with former manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, who went on to write a foreword for Pacino’s books, Sir Alex, United & Me and I Was There When We Were Crap. Pacino founded independent film company, No Ordinary Family in 2007 and wrote, directed and acted in Out Of Court, a family tragedy drama that exposes the weaknesses in the English Family Law system. It received critical acclaim and won several awards, the film also spawning fledgling actors, Mae Brogan Keith De Winter and Lily Lowe Myers.

Just prior to release, SAS: First Man Through The Door was banned by the MoD for featuring Vinnie Keane (a pseudonym for former SAS soldier) as the first person narrator. Pacino argued Keane contributed only ten percent to the book and rewrote it removing all references of the former soldier. In its new guise, Sierra Leone: Deliver A Blow, is available free to download via his website.