{"id":202,"date":"2026-05-29T04:53:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T04:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.georgetownradio.com\/?p=202"},"modified":"2026-05-29T04:54:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T04:54:30","slug":"stay-for-cmat-a-night-of-euro-country-930-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgetownradio.com\/?p=202","title":{"rendered":"Stay for CMAT: A Night of Euro-Country @ 9:30 Club"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Chandler Paulk<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the balcony, in the middle of a stream of adoring fans, emerged a declaration: \u201cI\u2019m a writer, I don\u2019t do crushes.\u201d The line opens “Janis Joplining,” sung by BRIT-nominated Irish popstar CMAT, and opened CMAT’s first-ever show at DC’s 9:30 Club. Fulfilling a lifelong dream of playing there, CMAT noted her excitement about night in general and the iconic branded cupcakes. However, this excitement over the delights of foodstuffs only lasted until the \u201cVery Sexy CMAT Band\u201d started up the second song, a diss-track-turned-self-admonishment and second single from the new album Euro-Country<\/em> (2025). \u201cThe Jaime Oliver Petrol Station\u201d set the tone as red lights flashed across the stage setting, a large glowing Euro embossed with the popstar\u2019s face and the title of the album. The song devolved into a fit of screaming, cementing CMAT\u2019s bonafide rock-stardom as she ran around the stage, raising the energy in the room to a boiling point. After this, she played two hits from her first album, \u201cI Don\u2019t Really Care for You\u201d and \u201c2 Wrecked 2 Care\u201d, interspersed with a song from the new record, \u201cWhen a Good Man Cries,\u201d in which the artist catapulted herself onto the floor.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soon, CMAT called out to the crowd acknowledging two requests. She provided the background for her first song, \u201cPhone Me.\u201d She admitted she had forgotten the words and that most of the band had not played before, but sang and performed a snippet of it perfectly as the band played off of the keyboardist\u2019s direction. Following this, she played the second request, \u201cCoronation St.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The band then exited the stage and the lights dimmed, leaving CMAT at center stage with just her guitar. This portion was bookended by the return of the band for the second half of \u201cRent,\u201d a devastating ballad from her second album Crazymad, For Me <\/em>(2023), which bloomed from the solitary beginning to full band backing. To close out the set, the first single from Euro-Country<\/em>, \u201cRunning\/Planning,\u201d left the crowd on an an anticipatory note as the singer closed the song with the refrain \u201cI keep on running, planning, yeah.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though this wasn\u2019t the true end, CMAT returned to the stage for an encore to chants of her name. The encore began with the title track from Euro-Country<\/em>, featuring a beautiful verse in Gaeilge and rooting the entire show even further within the ethos of identity. This Irish thread was masterfully woven together with her country influences as she asked the audience to do the \u201cDunboyne County Meath two-step\u201d shuffle from side to side while she played the song \u201cI Wanna Be a Cowboy, Baby!\u201d After this, CMAT came down from the stage and into the pit to\u00a0 close the show, for real this time, with \u201cStay For Something.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the very beginning of the night with opener Blond in Car to the very end of the show, drama and energy reigned over the Euro-Country<\/em> tour. A night with CMAT and The Very Sexy CMAT Band is certainly one you won\u2019t want to miss. She doesn\u2019t do crushes, but she crushed her first show at the iconic 9:30 Club!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Chandler Paulk From the balcony, in the middle of a stream of adoring fans, emerged a declaration: \u201cI\u2019m a writer, I don\u2019t do crushes.\u201d The line opens “Janis Joplining,” sung by BRIT-nominated Irish popstar CMAT, and opened CMAT’s first-ever show at DC’s 9:30 Club. Fulfilling a lifelong dream of playing there, CMAT noted her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetownradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetownradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetownradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetownradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetownradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetownradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetownradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetownradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetownradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetownradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}