{"id":497256,"date":"2026-05-22T10:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/497256\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T10:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:18:10","slug":"cmat-wins-best-album-at-ivor-novello-awards-its-nice-to-finally-win-an-award-in-england-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/497256\/","title":{"rendered":"CMAT wins best album at Ivor Novello Awards: \u2018It\u2019s nice to finally win an award in England\u2019 \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish singer-songwriter CMAT<\/a> has said \u201cit\u2019s nice to finally win an award in England\u201d after her record Euro-Country<\/a> was named best album at the 2026 Ivor Novello Awards.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old, whose real name is Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, was joined on the winners list by the likes of pop rocker Sam Fender<\/a>, Spanish singer-songwriter Rosalia and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road singer Elton John<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really nice to finally win an award in England, English people don\u2019t generally give me awards, so that\u2019s a first, really good, I\u2019m actually a big fan of the man, Ivor Novello, himself as well,\u201d CMAT said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s the tits, this award is the tits, I love Amy Winehouse so much, and she won best song musically and lyrically for Love Is a Losing Game, and I remember that because I was like 10 when it happened, and she was a really big thing for me.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I always loved the fact that she won that award, and so did a guy from Ireland called Villagers, he won it in 2011 for a song called Becoming a Jackal.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I remember being like, \u2018Wow, it\u2019s crazy that the most famous person in the world and this indie artist from Dublin both won the same award, what an interesting award show, I would f**king love one of them\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seventeen Going Under star Fender won songwriter of the year, while Rosalia, whose full name is Rosalia Vila Tobella, collected the international songwriter of the year gong, and Elton John was presented with an Ivors Academy Honour, and was also announced as the academy\u2019s first president.<\/p>\n

Radiohead <\/a>frontman Thom Yorke<\/a> was given a Fellowship of The Ivors Academy, as was late Wham! singer George Michael<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Poet Kae Tempest <\/a>won best contemporary song for I Stand on the Line from his 2025 album Self Titled, and said he would celebrate with \u201ca little party\u201d, while singer Lola Young won the PRS For Music award for most performed work for her 2024 song Messy.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0CMAT: \u2018Ireland is a really hard place to live unless you have money, which we didn\u2019t\u2019Opens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

British pop star Lily Allen<\/a> received the award for outstanding song collection, Calvin Harris scooped the music icon award, and rapper Kano won the visionary award.<\/p>\n

Scottish singer-songwriter Jacob Alon took home two awards for rising star and best song musically and lyrically for his track Don\u2019t Fall Asleep, and 4 Non Blondes singer and guitarist Linda Perry received the special international award, which was given to her by her friend, singer James Blunt.<\/p>\n

Speaking about her award, Perry said: \u201cTo get it from James Blunt, it was very generous of James to take the time to come and say these special words and share the story.<\/p>\n

\u201cGetting the award is acknowledging that I\u2019m doing something worth hearing, and I think that\u2019s the best feeling you can get, the best acceptance, like I\u2019m being accepted for who I am as a songwriter, and not how relevant or popular I am.\u201d<\/p>\n

The soundtrack to Trespasses, composed by David Holmes and Brian Irvine, won best TV soundtrack, while the music for Testimony by Tom Hodge won best film score.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0\u2018I was living a weird double life\u2019: How CMAT\u2019s generation endured the Celtic Tiger crash Opens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

During the night, performances came from Yorke, Alon, who performed Don\u2019t Fall Asleep, and rising star nominee Skye Newman, who performed Careless Whisper in tribute to Academy Fellow Michael.<\/p>\n

Presented by the Ivors Academy, the peer-judged award ceremony celebrates and recognises songwriting and composing. \u2013 PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish singer-songwriter CMAT has said \u201cit\u2019s nice to finally win an award in England\u201d after her record Euro-Country…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[264],"tags":[14867,18,8824,117,44445,19,17,132284,85586,337,26928,31228],"class_list":["post-497256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-cmat","tag-eire","tag-elton-john","tag-entertainment","tag-george-michael","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kae-tempest","tag-lily-allen","tag-music","tag-sam-fender","tag-thom-yorke"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116617721018108138","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}