CMAT has released the video for the title track for her third album EURO-COUNTRY, out August 29th on AWAL Recordings.
All the big boys
All the Berties
All the envelopes, yeah they hurt me
I was 12 when the das started killing themselves all around me
Headlines had already been written about CMAT’s new song and it’s lyrical reference to the Celtic Tiger recession era when the country went from “we-all-parties” to a epidemic where men who suddenly lost money and capital started to kill themselves when austerity kicked in.
It’s a lyrical concern on the new song which kicks off with a verse in Irish, alongside a wider lament for how capitalism and changing economics affected Ireland and CMAT herself alongside the emigrant journey (“And now I feel just like Cú Chulainn, I feel like Kerry Katona”) and a video by Eilis Doherty that continues the gaudy Euroworld theme of singles so far a romp in the Omni shopping centre fountain in Santry.
“I have certain phrases that reverberate around my head over and over again – and EURO-COUNTRY was one of them. It’s the title of the album, and the name of the first song on the record. And it means three things to me: It’s the kind of country music I make; the fact that Ireland is a European country run by the euro; and that capitalism is one of the worst things to ever happen to us.”
CMAT today explains the concept around EURO-COUNTRY.
CMAT – Euroworld lyrics
Lyrics:
Cad is gá dom a dhéanamh mura bhfuil mé ag bualadh leat?
Tá ceann folamh agam, yah, agus pearsantacht nua
Eirím níos dofheicthe, is tú imithe, ó mo shaol
Níl aon rud fágtha sa scátháin
An mbeidh mé álainn mhaol?
Yah
I went away to come back
Like a prodigal christian
I lost a bit of weight, yeah, and gained it back when I missed him
I learned a lot from my being here
How I had to be on my own, yeah
And now I feel just like Cú Chulainn, I feel like Kerry Katona
My EURO-EURO-EURO COUNTRY
(The mam and the dad)
My EURO-EURO-EURO COUNTRY
(The present is past)
Everything I thought that I could be
(He cut it in half)
My EURO-EURO-EURO COUNTRY
(I do all he asks)
I never understood what this way of living could to do me
All the mooching ’round shops, and the lack of identity
So tryna be what he wasn’t born, all this pop star USA
I think we’re gonna die trying, I wish we weren’t this way
My EURO-EURO-EURO COUNTRY
(The mam and the dad)
My EURO-EURO-EURO COUNTRY
(The present is past)
Everything I thought that I could be
(He cut it in half)
My EURO-EURO-EURO COUNTRY
(I do all he asks)
All the big boys
All the Berties
All the envelopes, yeah they hurt me
I was 12 when the das started killing themselves all around me
And it was normal
Building houses
That stay empty even now, yeah
And no one says it out loud but I know it can be better if we hound it
My EURO-EURO-EURO COUNTRY
(The mam and the dad)
My EURO-EURO-EURO COUNTRY
(The present is past)
Everything I thought that I could be
(He cut it in half)
My EURO-EURO-EURO COUNTRY
(I do all he asks)
CMAT – EURO-COUNTRY album
August 29th 2025.
1. Billy Byrne From Ballybrack, The Leader Of The Pigeon Convoy
2. EURO-COUNTRY
3. When A Good Man Cries
4. The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station
5. Three Six Foive
7. Ready
8. Iceberg
9. Coronation St.
10. Lord, Let That Tesla Crash
11. Running/Planning
12. Janis Joplining
Tour Dates
Jul 26th – Truck Festival, Oxfordshire, UK
Jul 27th – Tramlines Festival, Sheffield, UK
Aug 1st – Belladrum Tartan Heart, Belladrum, UK
Aug 2nd – All Together Now, Waterford
Aug 7th – Syd For Solen, Copenhagen, DEN
Aug 8th – Way Out West, Gothenburg, SWE
Aug 14th – Cabaret Vert, Charleville Mezieres, FR
Aug 15th – Lowlands, Biddinghuizen, NL
Aug 16th – Green Man Festival, Crickhowell, UK
Aug 23rd – All Points East, London, UK
Aug 28th – HMV, Belfast, UK (solo instore performance)
Aug 28th – Boucher Playing Fields, Belfast, UK *
Aug 29th – Golden Discs, Dublin (solo instore performance)
Aug 30th – Rough Trade, Nottingham, UK (solo instore performance)
Aug 31st – Jacaranda, Liverpool, UK (solo instore performance)
Sep 1st – Rough Trade East, London, UK (solo instore performance)
Sept 2nd – Banquet, Kingston, UK (solo instore performance)
Sept 3rd – Resident, Brighton, UK (solo instore performance)
Sept 4th – Rough Trade, Bristol, UK (solo instore performance)
Sep 8th – The Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles, US
Sep 10th – Gothic Theatre, Englewood, US
Sep 12th – Fine Line, Minneapolis, US
Sep 13th – Park West, Chicago, US
Sep 15th – The Concert Hall, Toronto, CA
Sep 17th – Paradise Rock Club, Boston, US
Sep 18th – Webster Hall, New York, US
Sep 20th – Shaky Knees, Atlanta, US
Sep 21st – Basement East, Nashville, US
Oct 2nd – O2 Academy Brixton, London, UK – sold out
Oct 4th – Academy, Manchester, UK – sold out
Oct 5th – O2 Academy, Leeds, UK – sold out
Oct 6th – NX, Newcastle, UK – sold out
Oct 8th – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, UK – sold out
Oct 9th – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, UK – sold out
Oct 10th – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, UK – sold out
Oct 12th – Rock City, Nottingham, UK – sold out
Oct 13th – Corn Exchange, Cambridge, UK – sold out
Oct 15th – Dome Concert Hall, Brighton, UK – sold out
Oct 17th – UEA, Norwich, UK – sold out
Oct 19th – Octagon, Sheffield, UK – sold out
Oct 20th – O2 Academy, Bristol, UK – sold out
Oct 22nd – Depot, Cardiff, UK – sold out
Oct 23rd – O2 Academy, Birmingham, UK – sold out
Dec 5th – 3Arena, Dublin – sold out
* Supporting Sam Fender
Pre-orders
EURO-COUNTRY is available from the CMAT store on the following physical formats: limited coloured double vinyl; standard double vinyl, CD and tape.
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
