CMAT announces 2027 touring hiatus: “I’m literally losing my mind”
CMAT has revealed that she will not be performing live for the entirety of 2027, after struggling with her mental health due to six years on the road.
The country-pop star appeared on the BBC podcast Sidetracked, where she confessed to host Annie MacManus that touring was beginning to grind her down.
“I’d love the concept of a holiday to be introduced to me at some point in my life,” she explained.
CMAT, real name Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, explained, “You are in control of your own career, but unfortunately you also, as a musician, make a lot of plans about one-and-a-half years ahead of time that you can’t get out of.”
The performer, who is currently performing in the UK before shooting across the pond for Newport Folk Festival and beyond next week, explained that her next holiday will be in October.
“I have a month off in October now,” she shared, “because I’m so close to burnout that we decided to just do one week of Austin City Limits. So I get the whole month of October off, so I’m thinking of going somewhere.”
Because of this relentless schedule, the ‘Jamie Oliver Petrol Station’ singer is taking all of next year “off, off”.
“I’m not doing any live music next year. The next calendar year of 2027, I’m not performing any live music at all,” she added.
CMAT quickly followed up with the confession, “I don’t know if I was supposed to say that, but that’s what’s happening. And I don’t care – you can come fight me if you want.”
Known for her energetic live events, CMAT revealed that she has essentially “been on tour for six years“.
She went on, “I’m literally losing my mind – and I don’t stop.” The last time she did pause, in any “three-to-four-month period off” in the past six years, she was obsessively making a new record.
Though CMAT’s commitment to her craft is staggering, it certainly paid off: Far Out gave her last album, Euro-Country, a glowing four-and-a-half-star review, deeming it an “opus of her talent, her wit and her vital voice on vital topics of real-world happenings and inner world emotions”.
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