{"id":607842,"date":"2026-08-29T02:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T02:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/607842\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T02:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T02:06:09","slug":"cmat-cancels-paris-gig-in-advance-of-electric-picnic-headliner-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/607842\/","title":{"rendered":"CMAT cancels Paris gig in advance of Electric Picnic headliner \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cmat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cmat\/\">CMAT<\/a>, who is to perform at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/electric-picnic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/electric-picnic\/\">Electric Picnic <\/a>on Saturday, has had to cancel her show in France due to illness on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">She was due on stage at Rock en Seine festival, near Paris, on Friday alongside artists such as Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Wet Leg and Biffy Clyro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In an Instagram post, the Co Meath singer said: \u201cI am very sorry to say we are no longer able to play our show at Rock en Seine today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cI have gastroenteritis and was due to travel yesterday but was not able and I have not yet fully recovered to travel today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">She also added: \u201cAlongside this, last night\u2019s flight into Paris carrying most of the band, crew and our gear was cancelled due to a thunderstorm. So, unfortunately, due to this double dose, it\u2019s not possible to play today. I am really sorry for anyone who was coming to see us.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Revellers arrive at a wet Electric Picnic 2026   Video: Enda O&#8217;Dowd <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">CMAT is due to perform on the Main Stage at Electric Picnic on Saturday from 9pm to 10.15pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Also taking to the Main Stage on Saturday are Role Model, City Stages ft Tinie Tempah, The Mary Wallopers and Gorillaz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Artists such as Lewis Capaldi, Zara Larsson, Fontaines DC, Amble, The Saw Doctors and Van Morrison will play across the three-day festival taking place at Stradbally Hall in Co Laois.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CMAT, who is to perform at Electric Picnic on Saturday, has had to cancel her show in France&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[893,12421,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-607842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-cmat","tag-electric-picnic","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607842","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=607842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}