One also notices how some of the sharp, sun-baked guitar lines now emanating from guitarist Andy White’s instrument have fought their way into audience affections since the release of 2 in 2012. The glittering ‘The Stars Keep on Calling My Name’ is rapturously received as is the funky guitar intro to ‘Cooking Up Something Good’ which sees Demarco circle the stage with a Python-esque comedy walk. What soon begins to emerge is almost a gig of two halves – a dichotomy largely drawn up between the breezy fan favourites from 2, Demarco’s second album, and the more ponderous bent of the newer songs.
His catching of a red rose results in partial, tongue-in-cheek renditions of Seal’s ‘Kiss from a Rose’ and Demarco and his band intermittently sport baseball caps and novelty shades that are launched on to the stage. It’s by no means the only instance of stage-bound presents being thrown from amongst the audience, or for that matter, of Demarco’s healthy hand/eye coordination. This is followed up with ‘No Other Heart’ – Mac’s lovely, soft-hearted paean to unrequited love – but not before he reacts with impressive instincts to catch a gift of Heinz baked beans tossed from the crowd. Unsurprisingly it is an old favourite which, two songs in, induces the first instance of the latter the bouncy melodic joy of ‘Salad Days’ sends the sold-out audience into a swaying, amorphous beast somewhat at odds with Demarco’s downbeat allusions to a quarter-life crisis. However, within the gap-toothed funster’s impish façade lies a reflective heart and the inclusion tonight of nine songs from latest album This Old Dog – a record within which Demarco ponders his estranged relationship with his father – makes for a show curiously balanced between mellow introspection and his perhaps more familiar sense of hedonism. When a deep, robotic voiceover jokingly introduces Mac Demarco as “45% a giant and riddled with disease” as he enters the stage carrying a three can stack of Stella Artois, it’s very much in keeping with the Canadian singer-songwriter’s appealing goofball persona.
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