Niall Byrne

Yeah, well, I think CMAT has actually been getting quite a lot of recognition.

The first time I heard getting a winning recognition in the UK, she was previously nominated for the BBC Sound Award, the Brit Awards for International Artist of the Year award.

which she hasn't won and also nominated for the album Euro Country for the Mercury Music Prize last year.

But this is the first time she's won an actual award properly in the UK.

Obviously, she's won twice now the Irish Album of the Year for the Choice Music Prize.

She just has something special about her.

The Ivor Novell Awards specifically recognise the importance of songwriting.

So it's a much coveted award from songwriters.

And Seaman is very serious about songwriting.

If you listen to her speak about how she talks about songwriting, she has studied it.

She has studied the greats.

She has studied the new greats.

She has studied modern music, old music.

It is her vocation.

Yeah, and it's for the best album as well.

It's a really significant achievement.

The album Euro Country came out last year.

It's very much inspired by what she says, her experience with Ireland and

and talking about how Ireland is the most toxic boyfriend she's ever had.

So she's just a really relatable, really specific writer, but she relates those kind of