CMAT releases new song, announces 3Arena gig and shares details of new album

There's loads to chew over for CMAT fans with the release of a new song, 'Running/Planning'; confirmation that its parent Euro-Country album will be out on August 29; and the announcement that she'll be playing the Dublin 3Arena on December 5 as part of an extensive European tour.

"'Running/Planning’ is about having to chase your own tail to be good enough to exist," Ciara Mary-Alice tells us. "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's 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!"

Recorded in New York, she describes Euro-Country as: "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 shit," she continues. "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.”

Here's her European tour in full:

* 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
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 *
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