CMAT announces headline show at Dublin's 3Arena

CMAT will visit Belfast this summer supporting Sam Fender at Belfast VITAL 🙌

Author: Emma DicksonPublished 26th Mar 2025

CMAT has just announced her new album EURO-COUNTRY set for release on August 29th, alongside her new ‘Running/Planning,’ out now.

She also revealed details for her biggest headline show to date, at the 3Arena in Dublin on Friday 5th December.

How to get tickets:

Tickets go on sale Friday 4th April at 10am from Ticketmaster.ie

Speaking about ‘Running/Planning’, CMAT said: “ It’s an abstracted view of societal pressure on women - specifically through a relationship lens: You start dating someone, you get engaged, you get married, you have kids etc etc etc… everything has to follow this linear pattern. (That’s the reason for the repetitive chorus!).

“And the minute you don’t follow that path, your mam starts giving out to you. That narrow path that everyone is supposed to be on… the minute you get outside of that, it gets incredibly stressful. And I don’t know anyone who is like, ‘Yeah, love this!"

Speaking about the her upcoming album, CMAT said: “EURO-COUNTRY is, I think, the best thing I have ever made. I felt halfway through recording it was the most important record I’ve made for myself… mainly because it was making me go crazy"

“I'm always going to make the work I want to make, because there is a little gremlin in my head that tells me if it’s shit. More than success, there’s a bigger gremlin that wants me to make music that’s really good. She’s brutal and has ruined my life at times, but she is the keeper of my life and she’s always right.”

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