CMAT Teams Up With John Grant For New Single Where Are Your Kids Tonight?
Wednesday, 12 July 2023
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Mars Washington
CMAT has shared a collaborative single with John Grant, Where Are Your Kids Tonight?.
The track will feature on Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson's second album, 'Crazymad, For Me', due out on October 13 via AWAL.
Following Have Fun! and spring's lead single Whatever's Inconvenient, the melodramatic duet finds Thompson singing the lion's share of the song, with Grant's vocals balancing the mix. CMAT said:
"I wrote this song when I realised I had turned into my mother. It’s kind of inspired by this image I had of entering a waterfall-like portal from an Irish kids’ show called Foreign Exchange where I’m looking at 1988 and 2023 at the exact same time every time I look at myself in the mirror. To quote a TikTok comment I saw recently: ‘The human experience is absolutely fucking wild.’
"I always knew this song was going to be a duet, and when I was writing it I said to myself, 'It would be so good to get someone *like* John Grant on this' because a) his body of lyrics reflect my own life and experience more closely than anyone working today and b) I never thought we would get him. But I got him! And he is so sweet. His performance really adds the layer of profundity that I was looking for to carry off the two-ages staring at each other angle. Love him so much."
John Grant added: "Mega-chuffed that Ciara invited me to be on this beautiful track. Love the lyrics."
Head below to view the glamorous accompanying video, a nod to Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson's video for I Know Him So Well.
The Dublin-raised musician will support her record, which was recorded with Bonny Light Horseman’s Josh Kaufman, with a tour of the UK and Ireland this winter.
Wed November 15 2023 - BRIGHTON Chalk
Thu November 16 2023 - LONDON O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
Sat November 18 2023 - BRISTOL SWX
Mon November 20 2023 - SHEFFIELD Leadmill
Tue November 21 2023 - LEEDS Leeds University Stylus
Thu November 23 2023 - MANCHESTER O2 Ritz
Fri November 24 2023 - GLASGOW Barrowland
Sat November 25 2023 - NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE Newcastle University
Fri December 01 2023 - DUBLIN 3Olympia Theatre
Sat December 02 2023 - DUBLIN 3Olympia Theatre
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