Declan McKenna on working with CMAT: “She’s got the gift of the gab”

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Declan McKenna has spoken to NME about working with CMAT, as well as his plans for Glastonbury and new material.The singer-songwriter and past Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition winner was speaking to NME backstage at last week’s BBC Radio One Big Weekend, where hailed fellow performer CMAT over the work they did together on her latest album, ‘Crazymad, For Me‘.“We’ve got a song called ‘Vincent Kompany’ that we wrote together and I helped her out with,” he said. “Her brain works incredibly quickly when you’re working with her.“She’s got the gift of the gab, which is part of her songwriting capabilities, always coming up with little quips.

Lots of fun times.”He added that the pair have also “written a few other bits that could come to fruition”.McKenna, who recently announced a UK headline tour, also spoke about his upcoming set at this year’s Glastonbury festival.“It will be my fifth time playing, and a bigger show than I’ve had before,” he said. “It will be my first time there with full visuals and we have a fairly late spot compared with the ones I’ve done before, so it feels like the show will be a different energy.”McKenna also made headlines when he performed on iconic kids’ TV show Blue Peter earlier this year.“I don’t really know how that came about but it was really cool,” he said. “It was something that I grew up watching and I got my Blue Peter badge, which I’m absolutely chuffed with,” he said.“I love kids TV and music and I feel there’s something really great about all the old Sesame Streets.

Paul Simon played on it and I really like the idea of making music for that sort of thing in the future because there’s something nostalgic and pure about it.He added: “I’m a big fan of that whole genre.