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“What was it that Orson Welles said? ‘There is something so arrogant about people who openly don’t like themselves?’” CMAT, an encyclopaedic cinephile and emotionally intelligent popstar from Dublin, ...

Like a heartfelt present from a friend, CMAT gifts her audience songs grounded in sentimentality and wrapped in lighthearted humor. On her five singles so far, including just-released “I don’t really ...

Ciara Marie Alice Thompson, or CMAT: ‘Cowboys, KFC: all of these references are tools that I use to bring the circus to town.’ Photo: Sarah Doyle ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...

Country singer CMAT has said a “fake version” of Irish culture is being “being built up by Americans and English people and claimed for themselves”. The 29-year-old, whose real name is Ciara ...