Patrick McCarthy is a record producer from Dublin, Ireland, who has worked for several rock and alternative rock artists, including The Waterboys, Counting Crows, R.E.M., and U2.
's in-house producer, co-producing three of their albums Up, Reveal and Around the Sun as well as the Man on the Moon soundtrack; McCarthy had previously served as engineer on R.E.M.
's fourteenth studio album, Accelerate, would be produced by Jacknife Lee rather than McCarthy.
[1] McCarthy also mixed Madonna's successful 1998 album Ray of Light.
More recently, he wrote English-language lyrics for the popular YouTube Japanese song "Bad Apple!!