CMAT

Musically, CMAT blends country, folk, indie pop and Irish tradition with a humour and emotional directness that makes her impossible to place in a single category. The songs deal with heartbreak, identity, class and contemporary Irish history — the title track “Euro-Country” confronts the 2008 financial crisis and its consequences for Irish working-class communities, complete with references to former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern. She sings with a powerful soprano that can carry both grief and sarcasm in the same phrase, and has been compared to everyone from Dolly Parton to Kate Bush to John Grant. She was nominated for International Artist of the Year at the 2024 BRIT Awards. Live, CMAT is an entertainer in the most generous sense of the word — theatrical, funny, direct and with an ability to make an entire audience feel like they are part of something. She is openly bisexual, a vocal advocate for Palestinian rights and trans rights, and has said she makes music “for the girls and the gays, and that’s it”. When she takes the stage, she does so with a confidence so uncompromising that it is contagious.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​