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CMAT<\/a>\u00a0surprised her hometown fans by playing an intimate show at her local pub in Dunboyne \u2013 watch footage below.<\/p>\n The singer \u2013 real name Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson \u2013 had played a show at Dublin\u2019s 3Arena on December 5 and the following night, she followed it up by making good on a promise to play at Brady\u2019s in her County Meath hometown.<\/p>\n Her vow to play the show was made on the condition that her Irish fans successfully took her third album \u2018Euro-Country<\/a>\u2019 to Number One on the Irish Albums Chart, ahead of\u00a0Sabrina Carpenter<\/a>, and on its release in August, that duly happened.<\/p>\n CMAT played a full, two-hour set at Brady\u2019s, while sipping at drinks and chatting with long-time friends in between tracks.<\/p>\n Jack O\u2019Gorman, who works at Brady\u2019s, told the\u00a0Irish Mirror<\/i><\/a>: \u201cThis was the pub Ciara regularly drank in once she turned 18.\u00a0So\u00a0to see her back here as a superstar wowing all the regulars was just incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n Watch video of CMAT\u2019s show here:<\/p>\n <\/p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n <\/p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n <\/p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u2018Euro-Country\u2019 landed at Number Four on\u00a0NME<\/i>\u2019s list of the Best Albums of 2025<\/a>. \u201cShe did the butcher, she did the baker, she turned a song about vicious online trolling (\u2018Take A Sexy Picture Of Me\u2019) into a global breakout moment and, with third album \u2018Euro Country\u2019, CMAT cemented herself as a generational talent \u2013 one capable of investigating deep-seated Irish trauma and concocting a capitalist metaphor about Jamie Oliver within the same 50 minutes,\u201d NME\u00a0<\/i>said.<\/p>\n \u201cAt turns hilarious, devastating, rageful and proud, \u2018Euro-Country\u2019\u2019s\u00a0complexity and breadth showed the magic that can happen when an artist is given space to\u00a0wholly be\u00a0themselves. It helps, of course, when the artist in question is as\u00a0smart\u00a0a songwriter as Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2018Take A Sexy Picture\u00a0Of\u00a0Me\u2019 also landed at Number Three on the Songs\u00a0Of\u00a0The\u00a0Year list \u2013 check that out\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n 2026 is set to be a big year for CMAT, with\u00a0a run of UK and Ireland dates set to be her \u201cbiggest shows ever\u201d<\/a>\u00a0when they kick off in March.\u00a0See\u00a0all of\u00a0those dates\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and find any remaining tickets\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n She will also be playing a swathe of festival shows throughout the summer, including\u00a0Bilbao BBK<\/a>,\u00a0Mad Cool<\/a>,\u00a0Bearded Theory<\/a>,\u00a0TRNSMT<\/a>,\u00a0End Of The Road<\/a>,\u00a0\u00d8ya<\/a>,\u00a0LIDO<\/a>,\u00a0Electric Picnic <\/a>and Truck Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n A planned UK tour for October\u00a0had to be cancelled due to a tooth infection that required surgery<\/a>. She told\u00a0NME<\/i>\u00a0at the Mercury Prize that month that\u00a0the rescheduled dates will feature \u201cthe best music of all time played by the best-looking people of all time\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Watch CMAT return to hometown local pub for surprise intimate performance<\/a> appeared first on NME<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CMAT\u00a0surprised her hometown fans by playing an intimate show at her local pub in Dunboyne \u2013 watch footage below. READ MORE:\u00a0CMAT \u2013 \u2018Euro-Country\u2019 review: she\u2019s been giving icon, now she is one The singer \u2013 real name Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson \u2013 had played a show at Dublin\u2019s 3Arena on December 5 and the following night, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-art"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 20:46:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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