Nick Keogh charmed me with the folky, acoustic-driven songs on his debut EP, 20 & Bored. He’s kicked things up a few notches with his latest single “Ketamine,” and I’m here for it. Switching his acoustic guitar for a telecaster has made his sound much bigger. The witty lyrics are also brilliantly biting, with Nick checking his privilege and in the process reminding others to do the same.
“I wrote Ketamine after I watched a Tik Tok by Lucy Holz where she discusses people at Melbourne Uni ‘fetishising poverty’ and I had a bit of a ‘woah’ moment because that’s something that I do,” he admitted. “It was around the time where I was reassessing my privilege as a white cis-het man in the music industry and didn’t really know what to say. So, I decided to write about just that, from the perspective of a lad in the style of music they’d probably listen to.”
Nick will launch the single for hometown fans in Naarm/Melbourne at NoNo (formerly Penny’s Bandroom) on December 8.
Image used with permission from Nick Keogh