Jack Garratt's Terrified Of The Next 12 Months..."But That's A Good Sign"
Over the past month, the name that's been on everyone's lips has been Jack Garratt. The multi-instrumentalist was named BBC's Sound Of 2016 and also won this year's BRITs Critics Choice award. He's also on our Brand New For 2016 list so, naturally, there's a lot of expectation from the Buckinghamshire boy. And quite rightly, he tells us, he's "terrified"...
"As busy as 2015 has been," the 'Breathe Life' singer says, "[2016 will be] twice as busy because I've been trying to write and record my first album. I'm terrified and I think that's a good sign. That's really exciting. 2016's gonna be exciting for pretty much that exact reason."Music has always been in his blood, though, so it's hard to think he'd be comfortable doing anything else. "Music was always a very comforting shadow that followed me and my entire family from a very young age," Garratt recalls.
"It's kind of all I can remember, the only consistent thing I can remember. My mum and dad saw something in me when I was young and encouraged it. It was then up to me to do something with it but I wouldn't have done it if it wasn't for that."
He's already the Sound Of 2016 so how would he, himself, describe it? "I tend not to go too much into the specifics about the genre that I think I am. More than anything it's because I like the idea of discovery. I therefore just like to say it's different and it's interesting and it's challenging, but all for fun reasons."
Breathe Life
Whatever it is, he's loving doing it: "There's nothing better than being able to walk out on stage and know that together you're gonna have good time.
"I don't have a good time unless the audience is having a good time and I don't think the audience will have a good time unless I do. Also, a part of me likes being up on stage and showing off a bit and I think that's fine.
"I'm very lucky in that my job is to give people to opportunity to just forget about stuff for a little while at 3-4 minutes at a time and I hope that come 2016 I won't have left anyone disappointed."
Not a chance, Jack!
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By Michael Pell
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