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Great roundup by Pete. I don’t think anyone's posted it here yet. UTFV

Self-explanatory, really. Off you pop and have a read.

If anyone from King Crisps is reading: step up your merch game!

The 8-episode season tells the story of a teenager who inherits an island. It's a teen drama, more or less. Anyway: CMAT! Episode 6! Go check it out

Based on Jill Barklem's *Brambly Hedge* books.

100 minutes of lovely cosiness.

Includes:

- The Secret Staircase

- Spring Story

- Summer Story

- Autumn Story

- Winter Story

Here yiz go. CMAT talking about **Sinéad in the sky**. Bang on the money, as usual.

Bonus clip: [CMAT covers Nothing Compares 2 U at St. Anne's Park](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eHXwQfR4dtE) this summer

*Wow*. Includes a few lines from backstage rehearsal.

Surely someone recorded the whole song? Someone with a YouTube account? Hello? Anyone?

Well well well. This is something special. Certified CMAT superfan **Brandi Carlile**, at whose festival she performed in January, just came out to duet on deep cut **I'd Want U** from CMAT's debut If My Wife New I'd Be Dead, at the Newport Folk Festival today.

Yes, *of course* it sounded amazing. Check it out.

And Brandi Carlile's set is yet to come, so who knows? Maybe CMAT could return the favour... watch this space

Nice set recorded for Lips2Ears in Doyle's, Dublin. From October 2024.

Setlist:

1. School Days Over (Luke Kelly / Ewan McColl cover)

2. The Man Who Seeks Pleasure

3. Spancil Hill (Michael Considine cover)

4. A Pair of Brown Eyes (The Pogues cover)

5. Building Up and Tearing England Down (Ronnie Drew / Dominic Behan cover)

There you go now

Happy 1st birthday to the title track from EURO-COUNTRY.

Plenty has been written about this song, with a particular focus on its incredible bridge, its focus on the crimes and misdemeanours of our dogshit governments of the 2000s, and there's no need for me to go into it all over again here.

Suffice it to say that, before the single dropped, all we had to go on was a clip of the bridge, and I just kept thinking *this level of intensity is unsustainable*. CMAT, the Queen of Bridges, had outdone herself yet again. And the song as a whole was just as powerful.

Of course, there was even more to come, and EURO-COUNTRY (the album) was a masterpiece. For most artists, EURO-COUNTRY would be the lead single; this was in fact the 4th. CMAT makes her own rules.

...with the original drummer! Thanks to the JUSTICE 4 RODNEY crew* (who created the recent fan remake of the music video); they descended on the Scarborough gig on Saturday 18th and wore their custom t-shirts in the front row, and CMAT brought RODNEY back for the first time since December 9th 2022 (where she performed it in Dublin's Olympia Theatre and yes I was there).

Huge moment for the fans. Yup Rodney

*or, as I call them, the Dangerfiends

*Phenomenal* set. Recorded at Next Door Records Two, London. Uploaded on YouTube on Dec 4th 2025.

Setlist:

1. Blue & Gold

2. Spancil Hill (Michael Considine cover)

3. The Ribbon Factory

4. Black Boys on Mopeds (Sinéad O'Connor cover)

5. I Was Just A Boy

6. The Man Who Seeks Pleasure

7. Murphy Can Never Go Home (Frank Harte cover, song written by Mick Curry)

Great session and interview.

Setlist:

1. Tunnel Tigers

2. The Man Who Seeks Pleasure

3. In An Aeroplane Over The Sea

4. Blue & Gold

Ooh Ahh Paul McGrath

Said Ooh Ahh Paul McGrath

Hello all... quick question in the midst of all the Istanbul posts:

Anyone know when the Pitchside video from the Liverpool game will come out? Looking to find footage of the team arriving off the coach. UTV

Calling it now: there are enough singers in the cast to do a Do They Know It's Christmas / We Are The World ensemble charity single sketch. And there will be a Christmas episode, so it's an open goal, really.

And a lengthy Eurovision sketch next week seems inevitable. The Worst of Soul Train is a high water mark for this sort of thing