The Guide #197: Your front-row pass to who the performers will be watching at Glastonbury From punk trios to folk icons, performers share their Glastonbury picks – and it’s not who you might expect The Guardian - UK · Jun 27, 2025
CMAT at Glastonbury review – a preposterously fun pop star who will surely be massive The Irish singer-songwriter draws a vast, devoted crowd for an endlessly engaging, energetic set The Guardian - UK · Jun 27, 2025
With her note-perfect, high camp Glastonbury Pyramid Stage slot, CMAT has truly arrived 5/5 Irish artist turns her BBC televised slot on the mother of main stages into what will retrospectively be a launch pad for the next chapter of her career The Independent UK · Jun 27, 2025
The 1975 to headline Glastonbury Festival amid rumours of Lorde secret set This year’s line-up features a number of acts listed as TBA, as well as a mysterious act called Patchwork, which will take to the Pyramid Stage. Evening Standard · Jun 27, 2025
CMAT, Black Country, New Road, Katy J Pearson and more join the bill for The Maccabees' All Points East show Additional supporting cast added to The Maccabees’ All Points East headliner on August 24 Louder · May 29, 2025
Shanti Celeste: Romance review – bright, beguiling tracks from a DJ who does what she wants Six years on from her acclaimed ‘fast house’ debut, the UK singer-producer invites listeners into a sunlit space between night out and morning after The Guardian - UK · May 15, 2025
CMAT thinks that women in the music industry were 'held down for such a long time' CMAT thinks that women were "held down for such a long time" in the music industry until now. BANG Premier · Mar 3, 2025
Sam Fender announces three huge stadium headline shows to promote new album ‘People Watching’ In a record booking that overtakes The Rolling Stones, Sam Fender has announced three huge stadium headline shows for next summer in support of his forthcoming new album ‘People Watching’. BANG Premier · Nov 22, 2024
Kneecap to headline Wide Awake festival 2025, with English Teacher, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Sprints, CMAT among first wave of bands confirmed London's best independent music festival confirms 2025 headliner and stellar supporting cast Louder · Nov 5, 2024
Little Simz and Charli XCX named on BBC Radio 6 Music's Artists of the Year list Little Simz, Charli XCX and CMAT are amongst the 10 acts to have been named on BBC Radio 6 Music's Artists of the Year list for 2024. BANG Premier · Nov 4, 2024
End of the Road review: Closing festival season with an eccentric, brilliant lineup The bill across the weekend spans a rich and eclectic range of sounds, from moshy young American outfit Lip Critic to the charismatic country-pop powerhouse CMAT The Independent UK · Sep 2, 2024
Latitude 2024 review: CMAT and Future Islands bring the electricity at sun-drenched festival Chic, Keane and London Grammar also shine at family-friendly weekend in the Suffolk countryside The Independent UK · Jul 29, 2024
The Teskey Brothers and Band of Horses headline vineyard show Concert scheduled for January 2025. Newcastle Herald · Jun 18, 2024
“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
Louder · Jun 11, 2024 "It's loud and chaotic, full of character(s), buzzing with energy, a bit sketchy, hilarious, and thrillingly alive." Kneecap's debut album Fine Art is an absolute riot The debut album from Belfast's Kneecap is an exhilarating, euphoric Album Of The Year contender
The Independent UK · May 31, 2024 Artists pull out of Latitude festival over Barclays sponsorship Singer CMAT says she asked festival organisers to find another sponsor but it was ‘made clear’ to her that this would not happen
Evening Standard · May 30, 2024 CMAT pulls out of Latitude Festival in protest against sponsor Barclays The move follows similar action at Brighton's Great Escape Festival in May, where more than 100 artists pulled out over the bank’s involvement
Wallpaper · Apr 23, 2024 The 2024 Ivor Novello nominations for songwriting have been revealed 77 British and Irish songwriters and composers make up this year's nominees, announced tonight at London's Groucho Club
The Guardian - UK · Apr 20, 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 · Dec 24, 2023 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 5, 2023 The 50 best albums of 2023 – 50 to 1 Lankum’s roaring reworking of Irish folk heads our pick of the year’s LPs, with unprecedented invention from Young Fathers and Caroline Polachek’s oblique angle on pop close behind
Evening Standard · Dec 4, 2023 BBC Sound of 2024: Peggy Gou, Kenya Grace, and CMAT on longlist Winner looking to follow on from FLO
The Guardian - UK · Nov 25, 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 Independent UK · Oct 18, 2023 CMAT, Ireland’s biggest new star: ‘I wanted to make Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell for the girls’ Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson’s debut album shot straight to No 1 in Ireland and won the RTÉ Choice Music Prize last year. Annabel Nugent speaks to the musician in the makeup chair about her Meat Loaf-inspired follow-up , mining heartbreak for material, and her die-hard love of Toby jugs
The Guardian - UK · Oct 15, 2023 CMAT: Crazymad, for Me review – Irish award-winner’s ambitious second album (AWAL)Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson sets her characteristic lyrical blend of wit and defiance to a more expansive country-pop sound