Mick Peaker

There is something very real about Mick’s songs; a fresh dynamic of folk/rock with a twist of country, they are from the heart, with something new to discover in each listen.

Singer/songwriter, Mick Peaker, the son of a missionary pilot, grew up mostly in Papua New Guinea, but is originally from Hervey Bay, Queensland.

Mick started playing music when he picked up a guitar and wrote his first song at 19.  Mostly self taught, he left Hervey Bay and his job as a welder, and moved to Sydney to study vocals and songwriting.

Michael produced his first EP, ‘Beginning the Dream’, in 1998. In 2002 he wrote and produced the song ‘Heartbeat of Africa’ after visiting an orphanage in northern Uganda; and in 2004 he co-wrote and produced an album ‘After the Rain’ with Elizabeth Connolly.

In 2007 he formed the band ‘Mick Peaker and the Usual Suspects’ who successfully played around the Northern Beaches of Sydney until 2011. The highlight of that time being their 2010 “World Tour” of Sydney, Gundagai and Albury.

Mick’s most recent EP, ‘One For The Road’ (2016), is an acoustic based collection of songs, ranging from the haunting tones of ‘There Was A Time’, to the toe-tapping hopefulness of ‘Laugh Love Live’.

Now living in Melbourne, Mick endeavours to write music that is authentic, that connects and resonates with the listener and their own story:

“Probably, the most significant musical memory I have is when I was about 6 years old, listening to my parents cassette tape of Simon and Garfunkel’s ‘Wednesday Morning 3 am’. I remember feeling the emotion of those songs. Even though, at that age, I really didn’t know exactly what the songs were about, they still affected me.  It’s this type of accessible connection I hope to create for people in my writing.”