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Singer CMAT Blasts Toxic Radio One Big Weekend Body Shaming As Rising Fame Is Tarnished By Constant Weight Abuse

Irish singer CMAT faces escalating online body shaming after her BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend performance, highlighting the ongoing clash between fame and internet scrutiny.

International Business Times UK · May 29

CMAT criticises Berlin Film Festival juror asking movies to ‘stay out’ of politics: ‘It’s cowardice’

The Irish singer is ‘not a big fan of anyone trying to argue that art is not a political place’

The Independent UK · Mar 2

Flamboyant, furious and full of hope: CMAT is the sound of 2025

The Irish singer-songwriter does what the best musicians do: perfectly crystallising their time while inspirationally taking a stand against it, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - UK · Dec 21, 2025

Forget U2 – Irish musicians from CMAT to Kneecap are more political than ever

IN FOCUS: It may seem ridiculous to claim that politics is anything new in Irish music, with the country’s folk scene steeped in laments about British rule and colonialism, but current acts like Fontaines DC and Martin Leahy are turning the lens on issues at home in a new way,…

The Independent UK · Jul 30, 2025

BBC denies editing Irish language out of new CMAT song

THE BBC has denied editing a new CMAT song to exclude an Irish language segment during its first radio play..

The National (Scotland) · Jul 23, 2025

CMAT, pop’s gobbiest, gaudiest star: ‘Everyone else in music needs a kick up the hole!’

Playing stadiums and causing dance crazes, the Irish singer-songwriter is going supernova – and whether opining on trans rights, body shaming or capitalism, she’s more forthright than ever

The Guardian - UK · Jun 6, 2025

“I don't believe that a company like Barclays, given their financial ties to war crimes, has any place at a metal festival.” Why the conversation around Britain's summer festival season has been all about Gaza, Barclays, and boycotts

Barclays will no longer be sponsoring Download, Isle Of Wight or Latitude festivals following escalating protests and cancellations by musicians and comedians. Louder looks at how this discourse has dominated summer 2024 in the UK

Metal Hammer · Jun 15, 2024

On my radar: CMAT’s cultural highlights

The Irish musician on her favourite traditional pub, converting to the cult of baseball, and gigs in a western movie set

The Guardian - UK · Apr 20, 2024

Music: Kitty Empire’s 10 best albums of 2023

It was a year of avant-rap, sex-positive R&B, polyrhythmic jazz and hyper-punk pop – plus Lana Del Rey’s glossy meditations on death and loss

The Guardian - UK · Dec 24, 2023

CMAT review – every song is like an encore in this fizzing, sad-happy show

Touring her masterly new album, one of the best of this year, Irish country-pop auteur Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson brings unruly energy, wit and guitar heroics to her searing tales of heartbreak

The Guardian - UK · Nov 25, 2023