CMAT

One of the breakthrough artists of the past few years, Dublin country pop star CMAT has just unveiled her second album Crazymad, For Me last week, cementing her status as Ireland’s most exciting talent of the moment. Having scored the prestigious Choice Music Prize in March for her ambitious 2022 debut If My Wife New I’d Be Dead, Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson’s incredible rise is only getting higher.

Equal parts “God, self-destruction and a Britney tune”, the Irish songwriting auteur has earned rave reviews at home and abroad for her trailblazing second full-length, which features John Grant and references to Vincent Kompany, Mark E Smith and Rebekah Vardy, but CMAT is holding down the spotlight all by herself. Famed for her live sets, St James’ Church awaits.

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