Jack Garratt wins Sound of 2016
Annie Mac and Huw Stephens assembled in the studio to complete the week-long BBC Music Sound of 2016 countdown. After revisiting Mura Masa and WSTRN’s tie, Blossoms, Nao and Alessia Cara, they announced Jack Garratt as the winner.
Jack discussed the support he had received through BBC Introducing and the physical way he approached live performance. Rather than overthink every instrument, he tried to step back and allow his body to remember what it needed to do. He played “Worry” and accepted Scott’s suggestion that he was now “the new Adele” with understandable caution.
The official photograph did not go entirely to plan. Scott produced what he regarded as an embarrassingly exaggerated pout beside the winner and immediately regretted the face he had chosen for the moment.
Will Ferrell’s football club
The show returned to Scott and Chris’s interview with Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg. Chris had asked Will to buy Watford FC, but the actor had been oddly reluctant to engage with the idea. They now understood why: Will had joined the ownership group behind the new Major League Soccer club Los Angeles FC.
Chris suggested that his request might have inspired the investment or at least provided an idea for one of Will’s children. Scott accepted that this was possible, although extremely unlikely.
Shower-oke
Inspired by the previous day’s singalong playlist, Scott sent Chris into the BBC’s basement showers to start a communal Friday performance. Chris entered a cubicle in swimming shorts and launched into Jason Derulo’s “Wiggle”, hoping that somebody in the neighbouring showers would answer him.
The other users remained completely silent. Once the song ended, Chris realised he could not casually emerge in front of the people who had just heard him singing alone, so he stayed hidden and asked Scott for another ten minutes of music while he waited for everybody else to leave.
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