Using Victoria Warehouse as his humble abode, Mac DeMarco hosts indie rocks greatest house party, serving up his borderline psychedelic guitar and synths for Manchester’s young music scene to quickly devour. For him, nothing out of the ordinary, but a blessing for those who have dubbed him, ‘The King of Indie.’
Overly weird and flamboyant, DeMarco is the visual embodiment of the sounds both him and his band produce on stage. Even in their covers of Rage Against The Machine’s ‘Killing In The Name’, and Nirvana’s ‘Heartshaped Box’, the hyperactive stage gremlins keep things moving with a mixture of warm beer and instrument swapping. It’s entertaining even when the amps are turned off, even though the sound coming out is a slap in the face.
Being an indie artist, it was clear from the outset that the show would never parallel the tech side of Muse or the pyrotechnics of a Chilli Peppers show, but you’ve come to the wrong gig if you think that kind of expense makes an ecstatic night.
Swaying his way through Mac classics such as ‘On The Level’ and ‘Cooking Up Something Good’, he soon has the room hooked into a guitar-induced coma with a drip of keys keeping those not baked, engaged.
Made In The Music 