Slacker rocker Mac DeMarco is set to return to the UK later this year, announcing six dates in England and two more in Ireland as part of a wider North American and European tour. The whole tour is in support of an upcoming album which will drop in August. The tour will mark his first full UK run post-pandemic, and tickets go on pre-sale this Friday (11 April) at 10am via Ticketmaster.
The UK leg of the tour will begin on 8 November in Birmingham, before shows in Brighton, London, Cambridge, Bristol and Manchester. Outside of the UK, DeMarco will kick off the tour with 13 dates in the States, starting on 29 August in Los Angeles. He will then travel to Europe and begin a run of 11 shows, starting in Amsterdam on 21 October, before visiting the UK. Following the last show in Manchester, the ‘Ode to Viceroy’ singer will hop across the Irish Sea for two shows in Dublin on 17 and 18 November. The last leg of the tour will see DeMarco play across Canada, ending the tour near his hometown on 19 December in Victoria, BC.
UK fans of the self-styled ‘jizz-jazz’ musician have found shows hard to come by in the 2020’s, with his only three shows this decade coming in 2023, when he held a three-night residency at Hackney Empire. Before then, he played 19 shows in the UK in 2019, including a Glastonbury set. The increased capacity of the recently announced venues compared to the Hackney Empire seems to indicate an expectation that the shows will face high demand from fans who haven’t seen him for nearly five years.
With the upcoming album shrouded in mystery, fans are left to wonder which DeMarco we will get. His most recent releases show a continued shift towards stripped-back, minimalistic music, but he is still the artist that gave us some of the most iconic alternative songs of the 2010s, including ‘Chamber of Reflection’, ‘Freaking Out the Neighbourhood’, and ‘My Kind of Woman’. The only certainty is to expect the unexpected.
The announcement video on his Instagram page, @macsrecordlabel, was typical of the musician, who has become known for his surreal humour. Mac uploaded a video of himself contorting his face into something difficult to put into words, before showing two short posters for tour dates. He simply captioned the post “Going on tour. Album out in August. C U THERE. tickets in bio.” No support acts have been revealed as of yet, but with almost six months to go, there’s plenty of time for announcements to be made.
Fan communities, particularly over on the r/MacDeMarco subreddit, have been blowing up with the news, with some of the more astute members pointing out that the tour will align with the 10th anniversary of 2015’s ‘Another One’. Only one track from the album has been regularly played at Mac’s most recent shows, that being the title track, but with a whole album of new material, the setlist will be anyone’s guess.
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Currently ranked as the 385th most popular artist on Spotify, tickets for Mac DeMarco are expected to sell out fast, especially outside of London. Even with his upcoming album, Mac always revisits his back catalogue, meaning fans can rest assured that he will play all of his biggest hits.
