Sinead O'Connor has revealed she will never perform live again following her son's tragic death last month.
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Homegrown Irish artist CMAT has exploded in the last 12 months - bringing a hilarious, authentic twist to pop music with a series of self-referential, country-influenced releases.
As she prepares to release her new album, If My Wife New I'd Be Dead (out March 4 via AWAL) she's been chatting about the realities of releasing music during the pandemic, and everything that is coming her way.
Speaking to Hot Press on the cover of their latest issue, CMAT says that seeing her music connect to wider audiences last year during lockdown was (understandably!) "weird."
"It’s weird doing shows and having people turn up and want to meet me. It's a bit overwhelming sometimes, to go somewhere on one night of the year, and have all these people be really intensely into me," she says.
"And then the next day go to a Morrison’s and get turned down for three bottles of wine, because I don’t have any ID with me.”
Relatable!
At the tail end of last year, the Official Charts Company named CMAT as One To Watch for 2022, alongside acts such as PinkPantheress and abcdefu hitmaker Gayle.
Sinead O'Connor has revealed she will never perform live again following her son's tragic death last month.
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Roy Keane needs no introduction at Old Trafford and beyond - but even Manchester United supporters might not be too familiar with his warmer side.
Don Broco and Jamie Webster are battling for this week’s UK Number One album.The Bedford rock band are currently ahead of the solo artist from Liverpool in the midweek chart after their fourth album ‘Amazing Things’ was released on vinyl, CD and cassette. It originally came out in October last year.Webster meanwhile, is not far behind with his second album ‘Moments’.
Becky Lynch has hit back at British WWE superstar Doudrop after she described their bout at Royal Rumble, which is due to take place in a few hour's time, as 15 years in the making - dismissing her as 'a fan going up against The Man'.
Meat Loaf’s Bat Out Of Hell rockets to Number 1 on the Official Irish Albums Chart, following the entertainer’s death last week aged 74.
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Warpaint have announced that they will return with new album ‘Radiate Like This’ – their first album for six years – in May. New single ‘Champion’ is out now, alongside the announcement of a string of UK and Ireland tour dates.In the time since their 2016 album ‘Head’s Up’, the four members of the band have been kept busy with other commitments in their personal lives, but eventually they decided that they still wanted to find a way to work together.Unable to physically get into the same room at the same time to record – due to the pandemic, as much as anything else – they recorded alone, passing round tracks and adding new layers separately.“I was saying the other day that we should’ve called **this album ‘Exquisite Corpse’”, jokes the band’s Emily Kokal, referencing both the parlour game and the title of the group’s debut EP.The new single, the band say, is about “being a champion to oneself and for others.
Damian Lewis is honoring his late wife Helen McCrory.
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Grieving Sinéad O'Connor has revealed the sweet way she's remembering her late son Shane following his funeral last week.Taking to Twitter, the Irish musician revealed that she has a permanent place set at the table for the 17 year old, who was reported to have gone missing from hospital before his tragic death earlier this month. Sinéad, 55, wrote: “Am staying with my best girlfriend. Been with her since the funeral.