On July 21, Jack Garratt became a one-man band for his Billboard Live At-Home set, which raised some money for The Trevor Project, a nationwide LGBTQ+ youth suicide prevention organization.
As the UK electronics artist invited online concertgoers to “sit in the beautiful pinkness of my jumpsuit,” he sat in the middle of his panoramic keyboard and drum machine studio with an electric guitar in his lap. He enhanced “Better,” “Circles” and “Time” from his 2020 album Love, Death & Dancing with his circular set-up, but the real doozy was his comedic banter on which camera to watch.
“There’s more cameras than I thought there were. Wait, wait, wait …,” he drifted in his speech while frantically turning his head all around and above him. But if one person were to be surveilling him carefully, he said it would be his younger self. “If 13-year-old me knew that on a Facebook show I would just play the guitar and ad-libbed a melody to ‘Oh, it feels good to play guitar,’ he would disown me because that’s just embarrassing for everyone.”
See Jack Garratt’s whole Billboard Live At-Home performance below, and donate to The Trevor Project here.
