CMAT reflects on triumphant Glastonbury set: “I was taking vengeance”
Country-pop singer-songwriter CMAT performed the biggest set of her career at Glastonbury Festival, and now, she has deemed herself the “bridezilla” of Worthy Farm.
The musician performed an incredible set on Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage. In a review of her triumphant performance, Far Out wrote, “The Pyramid Stage has a capacity of 120,000 people and is considered one of the most esteemed stages in the world. These facts did not seem to matter to the singer, who delivered a vocally perfect performance to a vast and varied crowd without a fleck of nerves. They hung on to her every word. The sheer personality was palpable.”
However, talking to Interview Magazine, CMAT has revealed that she did feel a heavy dose of nerves, especially after the set finished. She said, “When I walked off the Pyramid Stage, I walked behind a sofa and collapsed and hid away. It was this weird instinct. I crawled up in a ball and closed the door and told everyone to not come in, because I just wanted to be really small and have no one see me for a while.”
She added, “I wouldn’t say it was a nice feeling. I would just say it was pure shock.” CMAT also mentioned that she was given the slot by the festival’s organiser, Emily Eavis, in November 2024. Since then, “I’ve been acting like a bridezilla about it, a little bit,” CMAT said. “Basically, my entire life has been just angling towards the Piza, which is what I was calling it. It’s all I could talk about or think about.”
The star ensured she knew the best way to approach the set: “I spent so long studying Pyramid Stage sets. With this, I was taking vengeance.” She added, though it might sound “bitchy,” she made a list of what people had done wrong on stage. She noticed that the tendency to want to make the set “special” severed the artists’ stance with the audience.
CMAT continued: “Whatever show I planned, I wanted to have done it at least 15 times live before we got to Glastonbury.” She stuck to her guns, hired an extra band member, and let personality triumph over spectacle. It was a roaring success.
Her new album Euro-Country will be released on August 29th. The forthcoming LP is the follow-up to the Irish singer’s 2023 break-out record, Crazymad, For Me, which saw her nominated for the Mercury Prize.
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