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Sam Fender announces three huge stadium headline shows to promote new album ‘People Watching’

In a record booking that overtakes The Rolling Stones, Sam Fender has announced three huge stadium headline shows for next summer in support of his forthcoming new album ‘People Watching’.

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Kneecap to headline Wide Awake festival 2025, with English Teacher, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Sprints, CMAT among first wave of bands confirmed

London's best independent music festival confirms 2025 headliner and stellar supporting cast

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Little Simz and Charli XCX named on BBC Radio 6 Music's Artists of the Year list

Little Simz, Charli XCX and CMAT are amongst the 10 acts to have been named on BBC Radio 6 Music's Artists of the Year list for 2024.

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End of the Road review: Closing festival season with an eccentric, brilliant lineup

The bill across the weekend spans a rich and eclectic range of sounds, from moshy young American outfit Lip Critic to the charismatic country-pop powerhouse CMAT

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Latitude 2024 review: CMAT and Future Islands bring the electricity at sun-drenched festival

Chic, Keane and London Grammar also shine at family-friendly weekend in the Suffolk countryside

The Independent UK

The Teskey Brothers and Band of Horses headline vineyard show

Concert scheduled for January 2025.

Newcastle Herald

“I don't believe that a company like Barclays, given their financial ties to war crimes, has any place at a metal festival.” Why the conversation around Britain's summer festival season has been all about Gaza, Barclays, and boycotts

Barclays will no longer be sponsoring Download, Isle Of Wight or Latitude festivals following escalating protests and cancellations by musicians and comedians. Louder looks at how this discourse has dominated summer 2024 in the UK

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"It's loud and chaotic, full of character(s), buzzing with energy, a bit sketchy, hilarious, and thrillingly alive." Kneecap's debut album Fine Art is an absolute riot

The debut album from Belfast's Kneecap is an exhilarating, euphoric Album Of The Year contender

Louder

Artists pull out of Latitude festival over Barclays sponsorship

Singer CMAT says she asked festival organisers to find another sponsor but it was ‘made clear’ to her that this would not happen

The Independent UK

CMAT pulls out of Latitude Festival in protest against sponsor Barclays

The move follows similar action at Brighton's Great Escape Festival in May, where more than 100 artists pulled out over the bank’s involvement

Evening Standard

The 2024 Ivor Novello nominations for songwriting have been revealed

77 British and Irish songwriters and composers make up this year's nominees, announced tonight at London's Groucho Club

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On my radar: CMAT’s cultural highlights

The Irish musician on her favourite traditional pub, converting to the cult of baseball, and gigs in a western movie set

The Guardian - UK

Music: Kitty Empire’s 10 best albums of 2023

It was a year of avant-rap, sex-positive R&B, polyrhythmic jazz and hyper-punk pop – plus Lana Del Rey’s glossy meditations on death and loss

The Guardian - UK

The 50 best albums of 2023 – 50 to 1

Lankum’s roaring reworking of Irish folk heads our pick of the year’s LPs, with unprecedented invention from Young Fathers and Caroline Polachek’s oblique angle on pop close behind

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BBC Sound of 2024: Peggy Gou, Kenya Grace, and CMAT on longlist

Winner looking to follow on from FLO

The Guardian - UK

CMAT review – every song is like an encore in this fizzing, sad-happy show

Touring her masterly new album, one of the best of this year, Irish country-pop auteur Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson brings unruly energy, wit and guitar heroics to her searing tales of heartbreak

The Independent UK

CMAT, Ireland’s biggest new star: ‘I wanted to make Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell for the girls’

Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson’s debut album shot straight to No 1 in Ireland and won the RTÉ Choice Music Prize last year. Annabel Nugent speaks to the musician in the makeup chair about her Meat Loaf-inspired follow-up , mining heartbreak for material, and her die-hard love of Toby jugs

The Guardian - UK

CMAT: Crazymad, for Me review – Irish award-winner’s ambitious second album

(AWAL)Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson sets her characteristic lyrical blend of wit and defiance to a more expansive country-pop sound

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The Guardian - UK

The Guide #92: From Lana Del Rey to Nova Twins, Glastonbury insiders on their must-see sets

In this week’s newsletter: We asked Guardian writers and those performing to pick the acts they can’t wait to watch this weekend

Irish Mirror

25 huge gigs happening in Ireland this summer including Red Hot Chili Peppers, Elton John and more

It was hard to narrow it down to just 25, but here are some of the biggest concerts to catch over the next few months.

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