Serious by mac demarco youtube6/19/2023 His young fans copy his shabby dress sense with baggy dungarees, turn-ups and caps, and he’s mostly had to stop smoking on stage because when he lights up, they copy that too. We’re not that kind of band,” he says when the idea is put to him in his dressing room before the show. Adding up those audience figures, this gap-toothed scruff is potentially the world’s least likely arena-filler. This weekend he and his band will play three nights at London’s 2,600-capacity Coronet theatre in Elephant & Castle, just six months after they sold out two shows at the twice-as-big Brixton Academy. ![]() ![]() This is a pretty standard performance from the Canadian singer-songwriter, 27, who has somehow turned his mix of lo-fi indie balladry and jackass pranksterism into the hottest ticket in town. By the time he’s about finished, 90 minutes later, he’s shirtless behind the drum kit while his drummer Joe McMurray is busy crowdsurfing a full circle around the venue and the rest of the band is blundering through a cover of Under the Bridge by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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