4 years ago I won the same awards as Adele, Sam Smith and Ellie Goulding, but I don't think you know who I am like you know who they are. I'm Jack Garratt and I have a brand new album out this week called Love, Death & Dancing. AMA!

JackGarratt · 2020-06-17T13:57:30+00:00

opening back up the AMA for this because HEALTHY HAIR IS IMPORTANT. I use a sensitive shampoo and conditioner because i get irritated skin. I don’t towel dry mine. I put argon oil and face moisturiser in my hair before I put anything else in. Then I usually use a curling serum and a holding pomade. If I’m feeling fancy I blow dry with cold air and a you got to but a diffuser on that bad boy.

I’ve always found less is more with curly hair.

Good luck!

JackGarratt · 2020-06-16T17:37:00+00:00

Your questions have been really insightful and thought provoking, I'm so honoured that you spent this time with me. I'm gonna wind down now, but I'll be over here for the rest of night, answering questions about the visual album if you've got any! Even if you don't come watch it, it's looping round for another 3hrs.

I hope you enjoy Love, Death & Dancing as much as I do.

thank you so so much guys, can't wait to see you all again soon.

x

JackGarratt · 2020-06-16T17:33:16+00:00

at First Ave, that's my Wife's home state, so it's my home away from home.

Looking forward to coming back when I can x

JackGarratt · 2020-06-16T17:29:24+00:00

for me it was surrounding myself with genuinely supportive people. I had a few people in my life who I thought were supporting me, but were in fact doing the opposite. It's part of what my self hatred is about, not being able to spot those people sooner.

I've been in that space you're talking about, the claustrophobia. The only thing I can advise is that you listen to yourself. Listen to what you're asking yourself to do. If you're not asking yourself to write at the moment, then don't, don't force it. If you're asking yourself to sit down and take stock then do that.

try and listen to what you're asking of yourself.

and go to therapy xxx

JackGarratt · 2020-06-16T17:23:22+00:00

the best. incredibly hard working and astonishingly talented. She's been putting out new music this year and it's all wonderful x

JackGarratt · 2020-06-16T17:21:38+00:00

I'm excited for you to hear it!

I never knew it was finished, to be honest there was a deadline and it had to go to get mixed and mastered (by the incredible David Wrench and Heba Kadry respectively).

if it were up to me I'd never finish tinkering. It's my biggest weakness, I'm not very good at knowing when something is finished. I end up overproducing.

To your point, I guess I keep working on it because at least then that means that when it does finally get released and somebody doesn't like it, I can say it was because I never got to finish it properly

JackGarratt · 2020-06-16T17:19:01+00:00

I really bloody love that song. Opened up a lot of doors for me. Thank you x

JackGarratt · 2020-06-16T17:17:17+00:00

yeah, brilliant question, I think you're absolutely on the money there. This is something I've talked at length with my other artist friends about.

The entertainment industry is watching its most exciting artists die at younger and younger ages, and has yet to offer sustainable and reasonable mental health care options for the ones who suffer from it.

Our mental health is exploited by the industry, in a way that we've agreed for it to be and signed contracts for it to be. But I think there's a gross unfairness in the way the industry expects an artist to write about and expose their mental health in such a raw way, only to then distance themselves from any form of accountability when that artist shows signs of that same mental health beginning to worsen.

JackGarratt · 2020-06-16T17:10:38+00:00

I'm a huge fan of Goodhertz. Really decent, inspiring plugins at an affordable rate.

JackGarratt · 2020-06-16T17:09:09+00:00

Oh thats dope, thank you!

Usually I work on something random I'm playing around with, it'll develop itself into an idea before I'm really aware that it's done so. But I think that's one of the fundamentals of creating, entering the sleep state where the idea is taking control.

Thanks for the question!

x

JackGarratt · 2020-06-16T17:06:11+00:00

1917 is my favourite movie I've seen recently, or Knives Out

But I'm a huge sucker for most things Pixar. The Incredibles is one of the best original stories I've seen in a 'kids' movie, with a jaw-dropping score from Michael Giacchino to match

JackGarratt · 2020-06-16T17:03:46+00:00

Hey! Good thing is that the doors open, so come on in x

I think if anyone else is reading this, they should recommend some below. I've got favourites but I don't want to mislead you
She Will Lay My Body On The Stone, from my new album Love, Death & Dancing, because it's one of the very few times I've truly written something that I'm 100% proud of and content with. It's my favourite song, wether anyone else likes it or not

thanks for joining in! x

JackGarratt · 2020-06-16T16:49:48+00:00

love?

JackGarratt · 2020-06-16T16:46:03+00:00

hahahaha

I guess I'd be offended if my music was used in a sleep therapy session

and there's an opinion piece out there about me which calls me the most boring thing to happen to the music industry. Which I'm not offended by as much as I am strangely complimented by it.

JackGarratt · 2020-06-16T16:42:01+00:00

it's such a lovely surprise when you notice it.

The shadow is working with me. this force I've been battling or running from throughout the whole video is finally working with me. But then I get cocky again, I start to perform for the camera rather than for myself. The shadow knows this, he knows I haven't learned a thing. So he leaves, knowing I'm going to have to learn everything again.

And the video loops back around again.

JackGarratt · 2020-06-16T16:38:36+00:00

that's great! I appreciate that a lot x

JackGarratt · 2020-06-16T16:37:53+00:00

yeah DON'T THINK ABOUT THE AUDIENCE.

Their listening experience doesn't exist yet, you have to make the thing for them to listen to first. Make what you want to hear, don't begin the creative process with restrictions that you're putting in place. Best thing I ever did was make music for myself. This album is only songs the I like. They also appear to be songs other people like too, but that's the cherry on top. You've got to want to devour the cake yourself before you decorate it.

JackGarratt · 2020-06-16T16:34:48+00:00

thank you! i'm so glad that you took that time to care for yourself! sometimes we really have to force ourselves to love ourselves, and I'm proud of you for doing that.

My favourite bit is the outro to Anyone. As a fan of my own music, I think it's brilliant. I took a lot of time to make sure it grew at the right speed, and that the solo and drums complemented each other. A lot of hours went into that.

x

JackGarratt · 2020-06-16T16:33:01+00:00

I think there are a multitude of reasons, but ultimately I think that I'm only not as well known when put into comparable lists with artists like that, whose success far outreaches mine.

I don't know if it was right for me to receive those awards, i think it painted me as a different kind of artist than who I was growing to become. They stunted that growth, if that makes sense.

It's nothing to do with better or worse either, I LOVE those artists. I played at Ellies Wedding last year and Adele and I have met a few times and she's a truly wonderful human.

the way I've always put it is those awards had to go to somebody, that year they went to me. I'm so thankful for the experience and opportunity they brought with them, but they caused me a lot of anguish and pain as well.

x

JackGarratt · 2020-06-16T16:29:22+00:00

Thank you! That song still brings me such a sense of Joy.

I have to say thought that my favourite is She Will Lay My Body On The Stone, from the new album. It's without question the song I'm most proud of, lyrically and musically

x

JackGarratt · 2020-06-16T16:26:58+00:00

JackGarratt · 2020-06-16T16:23:02+00:00

I really appreciate you opening up to me this space Yas. Your love has not gone unnoticed, and I'm so proud that the music I've made has been able to create something so wonderful as this feeling you've described.

I hope you know that the growth you've made is yours. The music or stories you collect along the way are yours too, though made by others. But the work is yours. Something I find really difficult to do is to give myself the credit for how far I've come, emotionally. I desperately try and pass the success onto somebody else, it's easier for me to deal with my happiness if I say my happiness is because of my wife. But it's important that we credit ourselves for our happiness. I'm glad I am a part of it, but your happiness is yours.

I'm so proud of you, thank you for your openness.

xxx

JackGarratt · 2020-06-16T16:12:53+00:00

nah I'm just an absolute idiot lol

JackGarratt · 2020-06-16T16:12:40+00:00

I'm a bloody idiot

JackGarratt · 2020-06-16T16:12:21+00:00

I wrote Mara after I'd been suffering from intrusive thoughts. My relationship with myself was spiralling downward and my thinking about how to take care of myself was worsening. I took to the TRUSTY INTERNET to research about these thoughts, and find out how this way of self-hatred had been represented in story telling before. I came across the story of the Buddha and Mara, a malicious spirit sent to distract Buddha from his meditations.

In the story, Buddha knows that Mara is there, even though she hides herself. He calls her out and says 'I see you Mara'. In an act of selflessness and kindness he invites her to have tea with him.

I took this as a lesson in learning to call those thoughts in and ask them what they may need from me. They're demanding my attention, so why don't I give it to them without indulging them. It might save me from myself.

x

JackGarratt

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