Watch CMAT joined by John Grant for ‘The place Are Your Children Tonight?’ at 6 Music Competition
CMAT was joined on stage by John Grant in Manchester final night time (March 8) for a model of their collaborative music ‘The place Are Your Children Tonight?’ – test it out under.
The efficiency got here as a part of BBC’s 6 Music Competition, which is at present happening throughout Better Manchester this weekend. CMAT was taking part in the O2 Victoria Warehouse, within the slot instantly earlier than headliner Gossip.
CMAT performed an eight-song set taking in materials from her first two albums (‘If My Spouse New I’d Be Lifeless’ and ‘Crazymad, For Me’).
Sharing a clip on her Instagram, CMAT echoed the phrases she used to introduce him on stage: “My hero. I’ve liked him since I used to be 14 years previous. We’ve by no means performed this earlier than. It’s John Grant!”
See the complete model of the music right here:
Later within the night time, Gossip have been joined by Alison Moyet to carry out a canopy of Yazoo’s ‘State of affairs’, in Moyet’s first stay efficiency in over a 12 months. The 80s icon just lately graduated from the University of Brighton in 2023 with a level in Wonderful Artwork.
Earlier this week, CMAT was nominated for the Selection Music Prize, the annual award for the most effective Irish album of the 12 months. She misplaced out to Lankum, who went on to ship a blistering acceptance speech that referred to as for solidarity with the folks of Palestine and direct motion in opposition to Israel.
The speech was initially omitted of a podcast launch of the night time’s ceremony by RTÉ, inflicting CMAT to hit out on the broadcaster, though RTÉ later confirmed that it was a technical concern because of the broadcast overrunning.
NME spoke to CMAT on the Brit Awards final weekend, the place she was nominated for Worldwide Artist of the 12 months.
She advised us about how Kylie Minogue, who gained the Brits International Icon Award, impressed her as a toddler: “She is the love of my life and a very powerful girl. I do assume we should always have a faith devoted to her,” she stated. “She was omnipresent once I was rising up as a result of I used to be 5 years previous when the ‘Fever’ album got here out.
“We didn’t actually have any music that wasn’t the radio, I wasn’t uncovered to any different music or something till I used to be a lot older. So once I was uncovered to the radio I feel my mind actually clung onto something that was bizarre — and Kylie’s music is inherently fairly different and fairly unusual.
She continued: “It’s structurally completely different, it doesn’t observe tendencies. Her music movies and visuals are so inspiring too as a result of they’re so properly thought out. So for me, she was simply this beacon of weirdness. That’s the one method I can describe her.”