Career
He played guitar for John Ariss in the student band "Mosque" between 1987 and 1993. He joined British Broadcasting Corporation in 2000 fronting the Good Morning Britain Breakfast show warming up for Anne Diamond, and later presented the weekday afternoon show (Monday-Thursday) and the Friday breakfast show on XFM London up until 2006. His work on television includes appearing with Richard Bacon on his show Flipside television (Channel 4 and Paramount Comedy), with Mary Anne Hobbs on JAMZ (Nation 217) and appeared on Ready Steady Cook with Huey Morgan.
He also appeared as himself in an episode of "The Bill" in 2005.
He has narrated for E4"s Stop Treating Maine Like a Kid, Superheroes for Sky One and Channel 4"s Road to V. And was 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. Keaveny joined British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 6 Music in 2007 and presented its late evening show until April 2007. He began presenting the British Broadcasting Corporation 6 Music Breakfast Show on 2 April 2007.
He also substitutes for a range of presenters on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 2.
The show was originally presented by Phill Jupitus, who had hosted the show since the station"s inception in March 2002. His current breakfast show includes features such as "Middle Aged Shout-Outs", "Small Claims Court" and "Keaveny"s Believe lieutenant or Not".
The show has regular music news updates from presenter Matt Everitt. Professor Brian Cox is a regular contributor to the show.
Keaveny"s first book, R2D2 lives in Preston, was published in November 2010.
lieutenant is a compilation of little known facts relating to various towns throughout the United Kingdom, advised by listeners to his radio show in a feature entitled "Toast the Nation". On 11 April 2014, Keaveny was brought on stage by Manchester band Elbow at Leeds First Direct Arena to play extra drums on their track Grounds for Divorce.
