Chris Kansy: The Gaffer 2024
The only production manager to be crowned The Gaffer twice, Coldplay PM Chris Kansy talks about his path to the top of the field
Feature By IQ | 1 July 2025
Currently steering Coldplay’s record-breaking Music of the Spheres Tour around the globe, production manager Chris Kansy is helping to establish new best practices for acts trying to minimise their carbon footprint.
His efforts, over a career that now dates back more than 40 years, see Kansy become the first person to collect the Arthur Award for top production guru (aka The Gaffer), twice. Adam Woods caught up with him during the band’s recent Australia leg…
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