Best of 2022: Phay ‘Phaymous’ Mac Mahon
Gordon Masson talks to the recipient of the 2022 Gaffer Award and one of the go-to production managers in the international touring business
Feature By Gordon Masson | 24 December 2022
IQ would like to wish our readers a happy holiday season and a prosperous New Year. Our daily IQ Index newsletter will return on Tuesday, 3 January.
In the meantime, however, we will revisit some of our most popular interviews from the last 12 months, starting with the recipient of the 2022 Gaffer Award, production manager Phay Mac Mahon…
Having grown up in Shankhill near the port of Dún Laoire on the outskirts of Dublin, life could have been very different for Phay Mac Mahon, had it not been for his big brother, Mick, and a local punk band with ambitions to see the world.
“Mick was a DJ in the 70s, and he’d built up a lighting system and stuff for his mobile disco,” recalls Phay.…