CMAT
ANNOUNCES SECOND ALBUM CRAZYMAD, FOR ME – OUT OCTOBER 13TH
SHARES NEW SINGLE HAVE FUN!
CONFIRMS UK/IRELAND HEADLINE TOUR
Everyone’s favourite global pop star ™ CMAT announces her second album with the catchy, carefree strut of Have Fun!, a sage-burning, fiddle-toting summer smash that’s as much about green parakeets fluttering around London as it is about firmly shutting the door on an era-defining relationship.
CMAT on Have Fun!: “This is a song about ring necked parakeets that are wild in London, but it is also a song about getting over a breakup and moving on from an emotional stalemate even when you don’t, or can’t, forgive the other person’s actions. I suppose it is a song about how things in life are never satisfying, and don’t make sense, but they exist anyway and we have to make the best of it. And have fun!”
Have Fun! – premiered as Hottest Record in the World by Clara Amfo on BBC Radio 1 last night – is the second single from her just announced second album, ‘Crazymad, For Me’.
The 12-track album – out via AWAL Recordings on October 13 – is a “an abstract break-up album – about what happens when you are still angry about something that happened 10 years ago”. It’s also a concept record of sorts – involving time travel, Belle Epoque Paris and a woman who may or may not be CMAT in the future. The album is available to pre-order now via www.cmatbaby.com
The Have Fun! video – an ambitious summary of the album’s central concept – was shot in Paris and Dublin by Collective Film. CMAT on the Have Fun! Video: “I did two days in gay Paree with a wonderful motley crew of amazing locals who transported me back to la belle epoque so convincingly I was ready to storm the Bastille by the time it was done. The video for Have Fun! Sort of encompasses the whole big wide overarching “theory” behind the album, actually. I hope you love it!!”
Have Fun! was co-produced by Matias Téllez and Rob Milton, and mixed by Matias at his studio in Bergen, Norway. It’s accompanied by artwork from London-based artist Seatton – whose work will feature across the new album campaign.
CMAT – CRAZYMAD, FOR ME – OCTOBER 13TH – AWAL
1. California
2. Phone Me
3. Vincent Kompany
4. Such A Miranda
5. Rent
6. Where Are Your Kids Tonight (feat John Grant)
7. Can’t Make Up My Mind
8. Whatever’s Inconvenient
9. I…Hate Who I Am When I’m Horny
10. Torn Apart
11. Stay For Something
12. Have Fun!
Tour dates:
June 11th – Kite Festival, Kirtlington Park, UKJune 16th – Black Deer, Tunbridge Wells, UKJune 17th – Isle of Wight Festival, Isle of Wight, UKJune 25th – Glastonbury Festival, UKJune 27th – Malahide Castle, Dublin, IE *June 28th – Belsonic, Belfast, NI *June 30th – Rock Werchter, Werchter, BEJuly 1st – Down the Rabbit Hole, Ewijk, NLJuly 8th – Otherside, Slane, IEJuly 21st – Blue Dot, Cheshire, UKJuly 28th – Camp Bestival, Dorset, UKJuly 29th – Y Not?, Derbyshire, UKAugust 12th – South Facing, London, UK =August 19th – Camp Bestival, Shropshire, UKSeptember 2nd – Kalorama, Lisbon, PT
UK/Ireland Headline Tour
November 15th – Chalk, Brighton, UKNovember 16th – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London, UKNovember 18th – SWX, Bristol, UKNovember 20th – Leadmill, Sheffield, UKNovember 21st – Stylus, Leeds, UKNovember 23rd – O2 Ritz, Manchester, UKNovember 24th – Barrowlands Ballroom, Glasgow, UKNovember 25th – Newcastle Uni SU, Newcastle, UKDecember 1st – Olympia, Dublin, IEDecember 2nd – Olympia, Dublin, IE
* Florence and the Machine support= First Aid kit support
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My life is a soundtrack, i track my life through music, photography is my passion, my escape, my expression. Without both i have pieces missing, thankfully i’m blessed and get to combine both.
Born in Manchester, lived in Australia for 22 years where i was heavily involved in the Australian Music Industry, firstly in bands (Singer) and then managing bands (all original), I moved back to the UK, Wales specifically 10 years ago and married my childhood sweetheart and life is good.
