CMAT spoke to NME on the BRITs 2025 about how the success of The Final Dinner Celebration is marking a brand new period for ladies within the music trade.
The Irish singer-songwriter, actual identify Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, caught up with NME whereas on the pink carpet final night time (March 1), sharing her love for the artists nominated this 12 months. One specifically was The Final Dinner Celebration, who she credited with having inspiring impression on different girls.
The band had been the recipients of the BRITs Rising Star award final 12 months, and had been nominated for 4 awards this time, strolling away with Greatest New Artist and utilizing their speech to voice help for grassroots music venues.
“I’m very brazenly a giant fan of The Final Dinner Celebration, they’re such a beacon for me,” CMAT informed NME. “Again within the day, there was not a lady to be seen for miles. There have been no girls in indie music as a result of they weren’t allowed to be seen.
“They weren’t put to the forefront at a time when guitar music was beginning to die a demise, and [the industry] didn’t assume they need to revitalise it by encouraging girls to get entangled… So to now see so many ladies, not simply being right here, however being the very best at what they do to the purpose the place they’re profitable nice awards, it makes my coronary heart sing.”
CMAT additionally went on to take a look at the feminine pop artists who’ve been dominating the charts over the previous two years – together with Charli XCX, Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan – sharing why she thinks there was such an enormous response from followers.
“I believe it’s to do with girls being held down for such a very long time and having so many obstacles to entry. The minute that’s lifted a bit of bit, the floodgates open. Artists like me and The Final Dinner Celebration had been sitting in our teenage bedrooms, on the lookout for [inspiring] girls. That was our motivation going ahead, to try to get different ladies out of their bedrooms.”
She additionally revealed that new materials could possibly be simply across the nook.
“There’s tons and plenty of new music and it’s coming very quickly. I spent all of September to December engaged on it in a gap in New York Metropolis. It’s finished now. I misplaced my thoughts there for a bit, nevertheless it sounds nice,” she stated.
“I’m actually specializing in songs that switch nicely to stay music, as a result of my stay band is such an vital a part of what I do. They’re the premise of me changing into a well known particular person within the UK who is ready to promote tickets to gigs. I wouldn’t be capable to do it if it wasn’t for my band, so I wrote an album for each them and me to slay.”
Talking about her upcoming exhibits with Sam Fender, CMAT informed us that she hasn’t met the Geordie hitmaker but, however is already an enormous fan of his newest LP, ‘Folks Watching’.
“I like the brand new album! I liked it nearly six months in the past when he was simply posting little snippets of it on Instagram and I believed it sounded wonderful,” she stated, additionally describing it as “stunning”.
New music from CMAT will mark her first since her 2023 sophomore album ‘Crazymad, For Me’. NME gave the report a four-star assessment, and wrote: “CMAT can have you in stitches one second and emotionally suckerpunched the following. It’s good. Creative, intoxicating, deliciously camp – she continues to transcend all expectations and stays completely unmatched.”
Elsewhere on the BRITs 2025 pink carpet, The Final Dinner Celebration spoke to NME concerning the long-awaited follow-up to their debut album ‘Prelude To Ecstasy’, and referred to as for extra dialogue round artists’ psychological well being.
Go to right here for tickets to CMAT’s upcoming exhibits, and try the total listing of BRIT Awards 2025 winners right here.