Nick Keogh-Peel

Nick Keogh-Peel is a Brisbane based Session Drummer and Tutor with a comprehensive background and qualifications in songwriting and performance. With a Bachelor of Contemporary Music and Performance (Drum Kit) and an unparalleled passion for music, Nick has performed with many established Artists in various stages of success such as Jade Not Jane (80,000 Spotify listeners), Evangie (Winner of QUBE effect ‘Best Overall Performance’) Dorah Jacson (Featured at Big Pineapple, Caloundra Music Fest and more festivals), Will Day (Supported Shannon Noll, Icehouse, Diesel, The Whitlams, Hoodoo Gurus, The Baby Animals, The Black Sorrows, Kingswood), Taylor Moss (1.6 million Spotify streams, numerous festival slots including Caloundra Music Festival, Tamworth Country Music Festival, Splendour in the Grass, and many more!

Patient Lounge, an Alternative Rock trio, is Nick’s own passion project. The band is known for their innovative songwriting and quickly gained a strong following in South East Queensland which saw them support heavyweights such as Wolfmother, Haken (UK), Pop Evil (US), COG, and festivals such as Dead of Winter Festival, BIGSOUND Showcase, The Other Festival as well as signing to Destroy All Lines for bookings in Australia and New Zealand.

Nick boasts an extensive tutoring repertoire which includes students currently enrolled in The Griffith Conservatory of Music, JMC Academy, QUT Music, Grace Lutheran Primary School & Wentworth School of Music. Nick has worked as a lecturer and drum tutor at JMC Academy Brisbane, and toured all over Queensland with arts group Topology, bringing music education to the many areas of regional Queensland that rarely receive it. With thirteen years of tutoring and over a decade of performance experience, Nick now runs his own teaching studio ‘Tarragindi Music Studio's’, where his passion is showing young music educators how to better run their businesses, level up their playing, and, most importantly, how to best inspire their students.