MATT EVERITT BIOGRAPHY

Matt Everitt is a radio presenter, music journalist, podcaster, author and co-founder of the production company Cup & Nuzzle.

He was born just outside Birmingham to the sound of Slade’s Mama Weer All Crazee Now which was number one at the time (something he’s always thought was rather fortuitous). This – combined with a formative teenage viewing of Queen’s ‘Rock In Rio’ – soon led to the decision that a career in music was the way forward (as were 12-minute timpani solos).

Following considerable time spent hanging around in Camden in the mid ‘90s, he ended up drumming with Menswear; a third division Britpop band of no fixed ability, which paid the bills until a chronic lack of songs caught up with them.

After joining London alternative radio station Xfm in 2002, Matt embarked on a career interviewing the most influential musicians around. He developed a series of acclaimed Xfm radio documentaries/podcasts with acts including Muse, Foo Fighters, Arctic Monkeys and The White Stripes.

In 2007, Matt moved to the BBC, presenting BBC 6 Music’s weekly magazine show The Music Week and appearing daily on The Shaun Keaveny Breakfast Show until 2021. Alongside 12 years reporting the music news every morning, Matt also produced documentaries for BBC Radio 4 and Radio 2 featuring exclusive interviews with guests including Sir Paul McCartney, Kate Bush, Axl Rose and The Who. He was also one of the very last people to interview Prince (who unfortunately refused to allow Matt to record their conversation, but Matt insists it did really happen. Honest.)

In 2010 Matt devised what would become BBC 6 Music’s flagship interview series, The First Time. Now entering its eighteenth season, it centres on in-depth and revealing interviews with some of the world’s most important artists – including Radiohead, Metallica, Brian Wilson, Daft Punk, Yoko Ono, Arcade Fire, Debbie Harry, Dave Grohl, Michael Stipe, Paul Simon, Janelle Monae, Peter Gabriel, Trent Reznor and Elton John.

He’s also the host of the BBC 6 Music weekly show New Album Fix which focuses on reviewing the best of the week’s new album releases and artist interviews.

Matt and Graham Hodge founded the independent production company Cup & Nuzzle in 2016. The company has developed and produced podcasts for Spotify, Audible, Netflix, BBC Sounds, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds, and the Universal, Sony and Warner Music Groups.

C&N’s music clients include The David Bowie Estate, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, and their hit shows include Jesse Ware’s Table Manners, The Line Up with Shaun Keaveny, Listen Up: The Official Oasis Podcast, Digging Deep with Robert Plant, Transmissions: The Definitive Story of Joy Division and New Order and Spyscape’s True Spies.

In 2018 Matt released two books – ‘Where’s My Welly? The World’s Greatest Festival Challenge’ and ‘The First Time – Stories and Songs From Music Icons’ which brought together 40 interviews from the radio series.