Tag: peter kay

  • UPDATE: Peter Kay Does It Again

    A few months ago, SomethingBurning dared my colleague and friend Peter Kay (rocket scientist by day, John Cage/Brian Eno by night) to compose music for the last corner standing of Thomaston State Prison in Maine. Here’s a photo I took of the architectural ruins that inspired the challenge… Peter accepted the challenge and composed this.…

  • UPDATE: MTV’s Peter Kay Accepts Our Challenge

    We asked MTV’s Peter Kay to compose a song for the corner of Thomaston State Prison left when the prison was demolished. It’s a creepy architectural oddity, a stone-faced reminder of harder times, in an open field of Maine grass possibility. Peter Kay accepted the challenge. Today, his blog Twitch premieres a new original composition…

  • UPDATE: The Secret Life of MTV’s Peter Kay, Part 2

    Dear Peter, Remember when I surprised you in your office, and your kids were in there? And you showed me your Walt Frazier bobblehead? And your midi keyboard? And your view of some backhattan corridor? Here, this was that visit… A few weeks ago, you wrote a great song for me. I know you also…