Irelands leading pop star CMAT performed her largest headline show ever last night in the 3Arena, an artist I’ve seen before at her last headline show, her biggest to date at the time, in fairview last year.
On the final show of her tour for her new album “Euro-Country”, she left no holds barred for the last leg, an absolute stellar performance full of energy.
With songs like the country ballad “I Wanna Be a Cowboy Baby”, a song which the entire arena did a two-step dance for the entire duration, and extremely powerful emotional songs like the title track of the new album “Euro-Country”, a song held by many to be responsible for Bertie Ahern’s withdrawal from presidential consideration.
A star in the height of her fame, and the height of her performance, she topped last year’s concert, one I would’ve found hard to believe would be topped.
An artist that will just keep getting bigger and bigger, it won’t be long before she’s headlining bigger arenas worldwide.
Stage Setup: 9/10, a stage featuring a giant euro coin, the centre of which was used as a screen instantly puts this stage above most of the rest, an incredibly well done and remarkably unique setup.
Band Performance: 10/10, CMAT is at the top of her game, and it’s hard to see what she left on the table after last night and imagine there was much, if any, left.
Support: 7/10, Support was provided by Fancy Hagood, an American modern country singer, very soothing and very fitting music for the support slot.
Merchandise: 8/10, a nice selection of tour t shirts, sweatshirts and long sleeves, even football scarves and rosettes, very standard prices, got myself a nice blue tour t shirt, as it’s nice to see concert merch in other colours.
Crowd: 10/10, What a crowd, between the raw energy of the crowd, and the fan interactions, including CMAT herself performing the last song in the crowd of the arena, that woman knows how to get a crowd going, and that crowd knew how to go.
Overall: 9/10, an incredibly talented, incredibly energetic and one of the best stage presences you’ll ever see, CMAT is one of this generations top live acts.
Next up: Cast 7/12/25
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