The music world’s most loveable and adored goof, Mac DeMarco, was arrested over the weekend at his own concert, and before you imagination runs wild, it was not for getting naked on-stage.
The Canadian jangle-pop extraordinare was performing a show at The Hub at the University of Santa Barbara California (USBC) Friday night which saw the crowd turn a little rowdy, resulting in multiple arrests including DeMarco, as Stereogum report (via The Santa Barbara Independent).
The ridiculous story goes that DeMarco was placed under arrest “after he was crowd surfing and climbing in the venue’s ceiling beams.” What raises eyebrows over the artists’ unnecessary detainment was that he had actually been placed onto the beams by the audience as he crowd surfed, not having climbed up himself, after which he casually walked back to the stage and was arrested, causing an end to the show.
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Anyone that has experienced his live show would be fully aware that this sort of behaviour is standard, and that he loves a safe crowd surf, but apparently this was not the case for the police, with UCSB officer Lt. Mark Signa stating that police had no idea who DeMarco was until they had taken him outside.
Reports have also stated that this was not the first time police were forced to stop the gig. Within the first 10-minutes of DeMarco’s peformance security halted the concert after punters were said to be violently moshing, with one 22-year old being arrest after attempting to fight both fellow crowd members and security guards.
In typical Maccy form, the jovial jokester made very light of the situation, posting the follow photo on his Instagram account:
DeMarco dropped his dreamy record Salad Days earlier this year to universal acclaim and is set to take Australian shores by storm once again in 2015 a part of the traveling Laneway Festival, and we can’t wait for his hiliarious on-stage antics.
Watch Mac DeMarco be lead out of The Hub by UCSB police below:
