Although, as I have said, his music is not for me, I was nevertheless impressed with him as a performer. Recommended.Įarlier, Savage had already started playing when I arrived. I picked up the 2 LP afterwards and will definitely be checking out his first record too, on this evidence (which, incredibly, was released only 6 months before the second). They chucked in a cover of countryman Neil Young's Unknown Legend for good measure, which went down well.ĭeMarco's a young guy, so definitely one to look out for. Like the bass player later said: you can't go to jail for shaking your ass. DeMarco didn't shy away from rebuking some of the student contingent in the crowd from sitting down at the side of the stage, instead of getting up and dancing, which was refreshing to see. It was a very solid set overall, though, and the band was on top form in the playing and banter stakes.
The standout track for me was the first (on the record and at the show), Cooking Up Something Good, which paints a dysfunctional family scene of his dad cooking up crack in the basement and other delights. I recognised a lot of the songs from 2, which I had only managed to listen to once beforehand. DeMarco ripped it up on this, his first visit to Slovenia, even though the Ljubljana crowd wasn't exactly the hyperactive hipster bunch you sense DeMarco is accustomed to playing to. So with the live shows I liked DeMarco but Savage is just not my thang. I imagined that he's the sort of bloke who has Simon Le Bon posters up in his Patrick Bateman-style apartment. To cut a long story short, I liked what I heard from DeMarco on record (reminded me a bit of a more upbeat, sprightly take on Kurt Vile) but didn't like his fellow Canadian Savage's material, which definitely nudged too far towards the electronic synth-pop end of the spectrum, for my liking.
Especially when the opportunity cost is sampling this fine city's selection of pivo. Although the online preview of the gig sounded promising, experience suggests that it pays to check out an act's material to avoid going in blind. Well, I did make a contribution - seems a bit harsh to download someone's life-work otherwise.). In the interests of full disclosure, I actually found out about the gig the day before and took the precaution of downloading his latest album, last year's "2" - as well as what seemed like the entire back catalogue of Sean Nicholas Savage, who was supporting, from Bandcamp (gratis. So I happened upon Mac DeMarco playing at Kino Šiška. What does The Highwayman do when he's at a loose end in Ljubljana? Sniff out a gig, of course.
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