{"id":608379,"date":"2026-08-29T15:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T15:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/608379\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T15:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T15:18:08","slug":"cmat-confirms-electric-picnic-performance-after-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/608379\/","title":{"rendered":"CMAT confirms Electric Picnic performance after illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CMAT has confirmed that she will be taking to the Main Stage at the Electric Picnic Festival in Stradbally, Co Laois tonight.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after she was forced to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/entertainment\/2026\/0828\/1589583-cmat-forced-to-cancel-paris-gig-due-to-ill-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">cancel a show in Paris last night due to illness.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a post on her Instagram page, the Meath-born singer said that she was unable to travel to Paris due to illness.<\/p>\n<p>However in an update today, she told fans that she will be on stage in Stradbally tonight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;if you are going to @EPfestival see you at the Main Stage tonight at 9pm x,&#8221; she wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>In the same post, CMAT marked one year since the release of her chart-topping album &#8216;EURO-COUNTRY&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>She said that it was &#8220;almost impossible to put the last 12 months into words,&#8221; and shared a video of some of the highlights.<\/p>\n<p>CMAT is due to take to the Main Stage before Gorillaz.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">today is the one-year anniversary of the release of my album EURO-COUNTRY. it&#8217;s almost impossible to put the last 12 months into words, so instead here\u2019s a recap of some of the highlights of the last 12 months. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qjssPtwxCw\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/qjssPtwxCw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 cmat (@cmatbaby) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cmatbaby\/status\/2093628738093121689\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 29, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for festival goers, the weather is not set to improve with Met \u00c9ireann warning of possible heavy downpours over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>It issued a national advisory forecasting widespread rain and possible thunderstorms.<\/p>\n<p>The forecaster issued the national advisory saying that &#8220;heavy showers or longer spells of rain&#8221; will become widespread from the south-west tonight and during tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>The advisory is valid from 3am tomorrow until Monday, with a warning of localised flooding.<\/p>\n<p>Met \u00c9ireann has warned of some localised torrential downpours with the potential for thunderstorms, lightning and associated gusty winds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/entertainment\/electric-picnic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">More Electric Picnic stories<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CMAT has confirmed that she will be taking to the Main Stage at the Electric Picnic Festival in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-608379","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\/608379","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=608379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}