Matt Stephen Everitt (born Matthew Stephen Bloor, 13 September 1972) is an English producer, writer and presenter. He co-founded the production company Cup & Nuzzle and appears on

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and

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. He was a drummer for

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band

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and The Montrose Avenue in the 1990s.

Career

Music

Everitt replaced the original drummer of

before their first release. They signed to

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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.

Radio

Everitt began his career in radio in 2002 on

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, where he presented various shows and documentaries. He stayed with the station until 2007. 2007 saw Everitt join

, 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...'' hosting more than 200 shows with guests including

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and Mike Oldfield. He also presents music news on

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weekday breakfast show and on

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's weekday mid-morning show on

. Everitt produces and presents radio documentaries including ''Maximum RNB - The Birth Of The Who'' for Radio 2, ''Bowie's Heroes'' for

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and ''The Business of Music with Matt Everitt'' for

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Production and podcasts

In 2015, Everitt co-founded the audio and video content production company Cup & Nuzzle. They developed and produced

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''On Air'' podcast for

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, the ''AM/PM'' playlist show and

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's ''Show & Tell'' podcast both for

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's ''Femme'' podcast and

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's ''Table Manners'' podcast for

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. Other Cup & Nuzzle productions include '' The Line Up with

, The Lotte Berk Technique presented by

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, The Great James Bond Car Robbery, Transmissions: The Definitive Story of Joy Division and New Order, Michael Spicer’s It Happened to Me, Listen Up - The Oasis Podcast, True Spies, Gregory Porter - The Hang, Digging Deep - The

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Podcast.''

Books

Everitt and Jim Stoten's book ''Where's My Welly?: The World's Greatest Music Festival Challenge'' was released in April 2018. A book collecting together interviews from the

series ''The First Time'' was published in November 2018 by

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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. Everitt also acts as a music and sync consultant for One More Music Company Everitt appeared on

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in December 2020, with a specialist subject of

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and with War Child as his chosen charity. He competed against

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, and

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, and finished second. In November 2021, Everitt took place in BBC Breakfast’s Drumathon with BBC weather presenter

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, which made

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history after becoming the charity's most successful 24 hour challenge ever. Comedian

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, percussionist

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and actor

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also took part. In April 2022, he interviewed

from

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for stations across

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radio and TV, where he exclusively revealed that the band had reformed to release a charity single entitled '' Hey, Hey, Rise Up!'' in aid of Ukraine Humanitarian Relief Fund, due to the

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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, of

's '' A Moon Shaped Pool''.

References

External links

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''The First Time With...''
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Matt Everitt on Instagram
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