LGBTQ+ icon CMAT announces biggest-ever shows to date – how to get tickets
Irish singer, songwriter, and musician Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, known professionally as CMAT, has announced tour dates. (Getty)
Irish singer, songwriter, and musician Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, known professionally as CMAT, has announced tour dates. (Getty)
Irish singer-songwriter CMAT has announced her biggest shows to date, with a tour across the UK and Ireland, and there’s a way to get presale tickets.
On Friday (22 August), bisexual icon CMAT, whose off stage name is Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, took to social media to announce her biggest shows ever, which will take place next summer.
The “Take a Sexy Picture of Me” singer will begin the tour on 7 March 2026 at the Corn Exchange in Edinburgh. She will then perform at the Brighton Centre in Brighton on 9 March, the O2 Victoria Warehouse in Manchester on 12 March and Alexandra Palace, London on 13 March.
She will end the tour at Dublin’s St Anne’s Park on 30 May and Virgin Media Park, Cork on 20 June.
Tickets go on general sale on at 10am BST on Tuesday, 26 August, ahead of her new album release Euro-Country on 29 August.
How to get CMAT presale access
If you pre-order CMAT’s new album you also get presale access to the 2026 UK and Ireland dates. Tickets can be pre-ordered here.
‘The best thing I have ever made’
She told NME of her third album: “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 s**t. 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.”
CMAT revealed in an interview with TimeOut that her first-ever lesbian experience was at Koko in Camden. She recalled: “I went to see Little Comets at Koko in Camden. I had my first ever lesbian experience in the pit, and it was a 10 out of 10.”
The “Aw, Shoot!” singer also hit out at cruel body-shamers in May last year, writing in response, “I didn’t realise it was ILLEGAL to have a HUGE ASS!!!!”
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