CMAT shocked her hometown followers by enjoying an intimate present at her native pub in Dunboyne – watch footage under.
The singer – actual title Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson – had performed a present at Dublin’s 3Arena on December 5 and the next night time, she adopted it up by making good on a promise to play at Brady’s in her County Meath hometown.
Her vow to play the present was made on the situation that her Irish followers efficiently took her third album ‘Euro-Nation’ to Quantity One on the Irish Albums Chart, forward of Sabrina Carpenter, and on its launch in August, that duly occurred.
CMAT performed a full, two-hour set at Brady’s, whereas sipping at drinks and chatting with long-time mates in between tracks.
Jack O’Gorman, who works at Brady’s, advised the Irish Mirror: “This was the pub Ciara often drank in as soon as she turned 18. So to see her again right here as a celebrity wowing all of the regulars was simply unbelievable.”
Watch video of CMAT’s present right here:
‘Euro-Nation’ landed at Quantity 4 on NME’s listing of the Finest Albums of 2025. “She did the butcher, she did the baker, she turned a music about vicious on-line trolling (‘Take A Horny Image Of Me’) into a world breakout second and, with third album ‘Euro Nation’, CMAT cemented herself as a generational expertise – one able to investigating deep-seated Irish trauma and concocting a capitalist metaphor about Jamie Oliver throughout the identical 50 minutes,” NME mentioned.
“At turns hilarious, devastating, rageful and proud, ‘Euro-Nation’’s complexity and breadth confirmed the magic that may occur when an artist is given area to wholly be themselves. It helps, in fact, when the artist in query is as good a songwriter as Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson.”
‘Take A Horny Image Of Me’ additionally landed at Quantity Three on the Songs Of The Yr listing – examine that out right here.
2026 is about to be a giant 12 months for CMAT, with a run of UK and Eire dates set to be her “greatest exhibits ever” after they kick off in March. See all of these dates right here and discover any remaining tickets right here.
She may also be enjoying a swathe of pageant exhibits all through the summer time, together with Bilbao BBK, Mad Cool, Bearded Principle, TRNSMT, Finish Of The Highway, Øya, LIDO, Electrical Picnic and Truck Competition.
A deliberate UK tour for October needed to be cancelled as a consequence of a tooth an infection that required surgical procedure. She advised NME on the Mercury Prize that month that the rescheduled dates will characteristic “the most effective music of all time performed by the best-looking folks of all time”.
