Shaun Keaveny

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Shaun Keaveny (born 14 June 1972 in Leigh, Lancashire) is a British radio DJ who presents the breakfast show on digital radio station BBC 6 Music.

Shaun joined XFM in 2000 fronting the Early Breakfast show warming up for Christian O'Connell and presented the weekday afternoon show (Monday-Thursday) and the Friday breakfast show on XFM 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 of The 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 pundit^[specify] 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 on 2 April, 2007 and deputises for a range of presenters on BBC Radio 2.^[1]

Shaun became a father for the first known time in May 2008, a son Arthur, with Actress Lucy Irving.

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^ "Shaun Keaveny to present new breakfast show on BBC 6 Music", BBC Press Release, March 12, 2007. The show was previously presented by Phill Jupitus, since the station came on air in March 2002.