{"id":607468,"date":"2026-08-28T17:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T17:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/607468\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T17:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T17:40:09","slug":"cmat-forced-to-cancel-paris-gig-due-to-ill-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/607468\/","title":{"rendered":"CMAT forced to cancel Paris gig due to ill health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CMAT, who is due to play Electric Picnic on Saturday night, has been forced to cancel her show in Paris tonight due to illness.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on her Instagram account on Friday morning, the Meath-born singer said, &#8220;I am very sorry to say we are no longer able to play our show at Rock en Seine today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have gastroenteritis and was due to travel yesterday, but was not able, and I have not fully recovered to travel today. Alongside this, last night&#8217;s flight into Paris carrying most of our band, crew and gear was cancelled due to a thunderstorm so unfortunately due to this double dose it\u2019s not possible to play today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am really sorry for anyone who was coming to see us. Xx.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CMAT is due to take the stage at Electric Picnic before Gorillaz on Saturday night in what will be her first Irish show since she headlined St Anne\u2019s Park in Dublin last May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tpe\" data-embed=\"instagram\" data-id=\"Dcla3-AsAxd\">\n<p>Earlier this week she announced the release of EURO-COUNTRY (Live at St Anne\u2019s), a new four-track EP.<\/p>\n<p>Released on streaming and vinyl, including a limited run of 500 green copies via CMAT\u2019s store, is available from today, along with a full two-hour concert of the gig on CMAT\u2019s YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/entertainment\/2026\/0828\/1589567-weather-not-a-worry-for-electric-picnic-goers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">less than ideal weather conditions have not dampened the spirits of the nearly 80,000 revellers <\/a>due to attend the Electric Picnic over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Sombr, Gorillaz, Van Morrison, Fontaines D.C. also play this year&#8217;s festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CMAT, who is due to play Electric Picnic on Saturday night, has been forced to cancel her show&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-607468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}