Mac DeMarco

[JKL2000]

My son is going to see this guy with a friend tonight. Sort of his first concert without me, the friends dad is dropping them off and picking them up.

Anyone (Canucks?) familiar with him? Had a brief listen on YouTube, sounds not too bad. His friend was going and had an extra ticket. I've been promised they will behave. We shall see.

[bob_32_116]

Local community radio station played a couple of his songs recently, Sounded pretty listenable, if not world-shattering. Can't recall the names of the songs. Also I think he is playing over the summer at one or more of those "laneway" festivals, so he must be developing some sort of following.

[FrippWire]

I'm not a fan at all. A couple of my coworkers play his latest disc frequently at our record store. I find his music lo-fi to the point of distraction.

[JKL2000]

Hmm, what I heard didn't seem what I'd call Lo-fi. To me it seemed like if you took a mid paced middle part of a typical latter day Marillion song and stretched it out for a whole song.

And no, that's not what Marillion does!

Anyway, my son liked the show and returned in normal state as far as I could tell. But he ran into a lot of friends from school in varying states.

[miamiscot]

He's awesome!!! Very good songwriter. A real treasure.