Matt Everitt

Matt Stephen Everitt (born Matthew Stephen Bloor, 13 September 1972) is a British radio presenter, producer and writer. He currently works for BBC Radio 6 Music. He was a drummer for Britpop band Menswear and The Montrose Avenue in the 1990s.

Matt Everitt
Everitt in 2012
Born
Matthew Stephen Bloor

(1972-09-13) 13 September 1972
Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, England

Career

Music

Everitt replaced the original drummer of Menswear before their first release. They signed to London Records after their fifth gig for £90,000 and had five top 40 hits. Everitt left the band in 1997 to join The Montrose Avenue. They released one Top 40 album and split in 2000. He still wears his Blue Peter badge every day.

Radio

Everitt began his career in radio in 2002 on Xfm, where he presented various shows and documentaries.[1] He stayed with the station until 2007.

2007 saw Everitt join BBC Radio 6 Music, where he presented music news magazine show The Music Week for three years. He has since gone on to write and present the interview series The First Time With... [2] hosting more than 100 shows with guests including David Gilmour, Yoko Ono, Michael Stipe, Noel Gallagher,[3] Lars Ulrich,[4] Pete Townshend, Elton John, Mavis Staples, Brian Wilson, Jimmy Page, Bjork, Radiohead and Dave Grohl.[5]

He also presents the daily Music News on Shaun Keaveny's BBC Radio 6 Music Afternoon Show and on Ken Bruce's morning show on BBC Radio 2.

Everitt produces and presents radio documentaries including Maximum RNB - The Birth Of The Who [6] for Radio 2, Bowie's Heroes [7] for BBC 6 Music and The Business of Music with Matt Everitt [8] for BBC Radio 4.

Production and Podcasts

In 2015 Everitt co-founded the content production company Cup & Nuzzle.[9] They developed and produced The Rolling Stones On Air podcast for Polydor,[10] the AM/PM playlist show [11] and Shaun Keaveny's Show & Tell podcast [12] both for Spotify, Daisy Lowe's Femme podcast [13] and Jessie Ware's Table Manners podcast for Acast.[14]

Books

Everitt and Jim Stoten's book Where's My Welly?: The World's Greatest Music Festival Challenge was released in April 2018.[15]

A book collecting together interviews from the BBC 6 Music series The First Time will be published in late 2018 by Laurence King Publishing.

Television

Everitt appears regularly on BBC One, BBC Four, Sky News and Channel 4 as a music/culture/lifestyle commentator and co-hosted Your Vintage on British TV channel Vintage TV.[16]

Matt also acts as a music and sync consultant for One More Music Company [17]

Personal life

Everitt lives in England with his wife Beth Gordon, their daughter Bebe Lily and Beth's son Joseph, who is known for his viral review,[18] of Radiohead's A Moon Shaped Pool.

References
  1. Xfm "Xfm 10th Anniversary Documentaries" 31 August 2007
  2. BBC 6 Music "The First Time With..."
  3. 6 Music "The First Time… Noel Gallagher on meeting Paul McCartney" 10 March 2015
  4. 6 Music "The First Time… Michael Stipe” 14 April 2017
  5. 6 Music "The First Time… Dave Grohl” 23 April 2015
  6. "BBC Radio 2 - Maximum R&B: The Birth of the Who". BBC. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  7. "BBC Radio 6 Music - Bowie's Heroes". BBC. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  8. "BBC Radio 4 - The Business of Music with Matt Everitt, The Pirate Ship". BBC. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  9. "Cup & Nuzzle". Cupandnuzzle.com. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  10. Cup & Nuzzle "The Rolling Stones On Air podcast”
  11. Cup & Nuzzle "Spotify Originals AM/PM”
  12. Cup & Nuzzle "Shaun Keaveny's Show & Tell”
  13. Cup & Nuzzle "Femme by Daisy Lowe”
  14. Cup & Nuzzle "Jessie Ware's Table Manners”
  17. "One More Music Company". Onemoremusiccompany.com. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  18. "An 8-year-old reviews Radiohead's A Moon Shaped Pool: "Reminds me of Kung Fu Panda"". The Independent. 9 May 2016. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
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