- Shaun Keaveny
Shaun Keaveny (born
14 June ,1972 in Leigh,Lancashire ) is a Britishradio DJ who presents the breakfast show on digital radio stationBBC 6 Music .Shaun joined
XFM in 2000 fronting the Early Breakfast show warming up forChristian O'Connell and presented the weekday afternoon show (Monday-Thursday) and the Friday breakfast show onXFM London up until 2006.He is a proficient guitarist having been in rock band Mosque, between 1987 and 1993. Drummer Leon Parr went on to be drummer in
Mr. So & So and work with members ofThe Verve , bassist Paul Banks is in unconventional band Santa's Buggerboyz but is also a librarian, keyboardist Damian Higgins is a teacher and vocalist John Ariss a renowned commercial insurance underwriter.Keaveny's work in TV has included appearing with Richard Bacon on his show Flipside TV (Channel 4 and Paramount Comedy) and with Mary Anne Hobbs on JAMZ (Nation 217).
He is a regular punditspecify for ITV1, ITV2, Channel 4 and Five; the current narrator for E4's
Stop Treating Me Like a Kid , Superheroes for Sky One and Channel 4's Road to V; and is the new "voice of Sky One".He was often derided by Richard Bacon during Bacon's now defunct XFM drive-time show, though he had cordial relations with Bacon off air.
Shaun joined
BBC 6 Music in 2007, to present the late evening show, which he did until April 2007. He began presenting the BBC 6 Music Breakfast Show on2 April ,2007 and deputises for a range of presenters onBBC Radio 2 . [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/03_march/12/6music.shtml "Shaun Keaveny to present new breakfast show on BBC 6 Music"] , BBC Press Release, March 12, 2007.] The show was previously presented byPhill Jupitus , since the station came on air in March 2002.Shaun became a father for the first known time in May 2008, a son Arthur, with Actress Lucy Irving.
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External links
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/shaun_keaveny/ Shaun Keaveny at BBC 6 Music]
* [http://www.xfm.co.uk/article.asp?id=5216 Xfm Biography]
* [http://www.xfm.co.uk/Article.asp?id=5521 Xfm Show Page]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20060514072044/http://www.wisebuddah.com/talent/roster/shaun_keaveny.aspx Agent page & biography in 2006]
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