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Mar 26, 2025 By Andy Von Pip Photography by Sarah Doyle

CMAT has announced her third album, EURO-COUNTRY, calling it her “most important record” to date. Set for release on August 29, the first track to be revelaed from the album is new single “Running/Planning.” Premiered as BBC Radio 1’s Hottest Record, the track takes an incisive look at societal expectations, particularly those placed on women.

“‘Running/Planning’ is about having to chase your own tail to be good enough to exist,” CMAT explains. “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!’”

EURO-COUNTRY follows 2023’s Crazymad, For Me, which earned her a BRIT nomination for Best International Artist, as well as nods from the Ivors, the Mercury Prize, and Ireland’s Choice Music Prize—an award she previously won for her debut, If My Wife New I’d Be Dead.

Alongside the album, CMAT has unveiled a packed touring schedule, including a high-profile Glastonbury slot and her biggest headline shows yet at London’s O2 Academy Brixton and Dublin’s 3Arena.

Tour Dates

* Supporting Sam Fender

May 23rd - Wide Awake Festival, London, UK
May 25th - Neighbourhood Festival, Warrington, UK
Jun 5th - Primavera, Barcelona, ESP
Jun 6th - London Stadium, London, UK *
Jun 12th - St James Park, Newcastle, UK *
Jun 14th - St James Park, Newcastle, UK *
Jun 15th - St James Park, Newcastle, UK *
Jun 27th - Glastonbury, UK
Jul 12th - NOS, Lisbon, POR
Jul 26th - Truck Festival, Oxfordshire, UK
Jul 27th - Tramlines Festival, Sheffield, UK
Aug 1st - Belladrum Tartan Heart, Belladrum, UK
Aug 2nd - All Together Now, Waterford, IRE
Aug 7th - Syd For Solen, Copenhagen, DEN
Aug 8th - Way Out West, Gothenburg, SWE
Aug 14th - Cabaret Vert, Charleville Mezieres, FR
Aug 15th - Lowlands, Biddinghuizen, NL
Aug 16th - Green Man Festival, Crickhowell, UK
Aug 28th - Boucher Playing Fields, Belfast, UK *
Oct 2nd - O2 Academy Brixton, London, UK
Oct 4th - Academy, Manchester, UK
Oct 5th - O2 Academy, Leeds, UK
Oct 6th - NX, Newcastle, UK
Oct 9th - Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, UK
Oct 12th - Rock City, Nottingham, UK
Oct 13th - Corn Exchange, Cambridge, UK
Oct 15th - Dome Concert Hall, Brighton, UK
Oct 16th - O2 Institute, Birmingham, UK
Oct 17th - UEA, Norwich, UK
Oct 19th - Octagon, Sheffield, UK
Oct 20th - O2 Academy, Bristol, UK
Dec 5th - 3Arena, Dublin, IRE

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