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Mac DeMarco responds to Fat White Family's comments about him ++ updated tour dates

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photo: Mac DeMarco @ MHOW in August (more by Dana [distortion] Yavin)

You may remember a while back Fat White Family declared they’d join Isis if Mac DeMarco didn’t retire. He didn’t and they didn’t (not yet at least) but The Guardian asked him about it:

“People ask: ‘These are your friends, right? This is a funny thing?'” he says. “I’m like, ‘I’ve never met these guys. I don’t know what they sound like.’ They asked me to play guitar with them on David Letterman a couple of months ago and I said no. But I guess somewhere in between that time and now they decided that they didn’t like me actually and yeah, if they have a problem, then that’s fine. Not everyone’s going to like my music. That’s fine.”

Did it hurt his feelings? He shakes his head.

“I don’t know anything about them. I don’t know anything about their music but it just kind of comes off as misinformed and a little bit disrespectful.”

Mac is currently in the UK where he played two sold-out show at London’s Roundhouse to about 7000 people total. His popularity is clearly not limited to NYC (where he sold out four big shows last month). Elsewhere in the article, he says that over 400 people have come to his house in the Rockaways since giving out his actual address on his new album, and he also comments on his somewhat deserved wild rep:

I’m essentially an internet meme at this point, so people can think what they want, believe what they want – it doesn’t matter to me. The thing is that sometimes I am crazy – like last night. The opener, this band Happyness, I was reaching my hand down their pants and touching their penises. You know, if the mood calls for it, then it’s time to rock’n’roll. [But I am also] a human being – that’s what people forget sometimes. If I was zany all the time, then I’d be a one-trick pony but I’m a guy, I’m a human. It’s a rollercoaster.

DeMarco plays Manchester on Saturday (9/12). He’s expanded his tour since we last posted. No new NYC dates (he does play Woodstock in October) but updated dates are listed below.


Mac DeMarco – 2015 Tour Dates
09-12 Manchester, England – Beacons Metro Festival
09-14 Toucoing, France – Grand Mix
09-15 Paris, France – La Cigale
09-16 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso
09-17 Cologne, Germany – Gebaude 9
09-18 Berlin, Germany – Postbahnhof
09-19 Copenhagen, Denmark – Vega
09-21 Stockholm, Sweden – Debasser Strand
09-22 Oslo, Norway – Rockefeller
09-23 Gothenburg, Sweden – Pustervik
09-24 Aarhus, Denmark – Voxhall
09-25 Hamburg, Germany – Reeperbahn
10-10 Port Chester, NY – The Capitol Theatre
10-11 Woodstock, NY – Bearsville Theater
10-13 Philadelphia, PA – Trocadero Theatre
10-14 Washington, DC – The Howard Theatre
10-17 New Orleans, LA – Civic Theatre
10-18 Houston, TX – Warehouse Live
10-19 Dallas, TX – House of Blues
10-20 Austin, TX – Stubb’s
10-22 Tucson, AZ – Rialto Theater
10-27 Arcata, CA – Kate Buchanan Room at Humboldt State University
10-28 Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom
10-29 Seattle, WA – Moore Theatre
10-30 Vancouver, British Columbia – Commodore Ballroom
10-31 Vancouver, British Columbia – Commodore Ballroom
11-02 Calgary, Alberta – MacEwan Hall
11-03 Edmonton, Alberta – Union Sound Hall
11-04 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan – O’Brian’s Event Center
11-05 Winnipeg, Manitoba – Garrick Centre
11-06 Milwaukee, WI – Pabst Theater
11-08 Pontiac, MI – The Crofoot Ballroom
11-14 Santiago, Chile – Movistar Primavera Fauna at Piscina Espacio Broadway
11-15 Buenos Aires, Argentina – Groove Club
11-16 Montevideo, Uruguay – La Trastienda Club
11-18 Lima, Peru – Centro de Convenciones Barranco