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. 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.
