Just get it.” The album in question is a more sombre, thoughtful affair than his previous work: although there has always been a bittersweet melancholy to his songs, questions of ageing and growing up (in a few days DeMarco will turn 27) permeate the lyrics here.īut it’s Monday morning, he’s just woken up, and he’s in no mood to enter that headspace. His third studio album, This Old Dog, has been leaked online, but he is – naturally – chill about it, telling fans to download it from “Pirate Bay, Torrents.to, Soulseek, Napster, Limewire, Kazaa.
When I speak to him on the phone from his home in LA nearly two months later, he has just come from two weekends at Coachella, where he was described by the Guardian as possibly “the perfect late afternoon festival act”.
It’s always weird when someone takes their pants down and has a drawing of me tattooed on their butt. The last song culminates in a 10-minute stage dive. He takes increasingly frequent swigs from a bottle of tequila: “This is the most drunk I’ve been on stage in a long time,” he declaims to loud cheers two-thirds of the way through. He jokes around with the audience, delivers note-perfect renditions of new material and old favourites (with the crowd filling in for the guitar solos where necessary), his stage banter is charming and good-natured.
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For the rest of the year he’s on a massive tour of the US and Europe – including two sold-out nights at south London’s 5,000-capacity Brixton Academy and headlining End of the Road – but tonight he’s performing solo, no backing band, “just Mac”.īeloved by critics and with a devoted fanbase – his last album, Salad Days, sold more than 100,000 copies in the United States – DeMarco has built a career on his mellow tunes and amiably scruffy, gregarious persona qualities that are on full display tonight. Three hundred youthful-looking people have wangled tickets to see Canadian singer-songwriter Mac DeMarco perform a rare intimate gig at a tiny pub called Nambucca.