His live engineering work has included mixing radio sessions for artists such as the Grammy Award-winning Amy Winehouse, former Marillion frontman Fish, Brit Award nominee Nerina Pallot, and the multi-million album selling bands T'Pau and Hue & Cry to name but a few.
Jay worked as a music columnist[3] for The Irish News, citing meeting Prince at his Paisley Park Studios in Minneapolis as a highlight.
[8] In September 2009, Maurice Jay formed an 80s Tribute band called The Pleasuredome with former members of The Behaviour; they debuted in a popular local club in Belfast in February 2010.
Jay played the lead role of Danny Zuko in a UK touring production of Grease and appeared alongside James Nesbitt and Conleth Hill in West Side Story.
He has appeared in over 100 performances of this Leonard Bernstein classic and in 2008 completed another sellout run at the Grand Opera House, Belfast, playing Lieutenant Schrank.
[11] Jay has undertaken charity work to raise awareness for the Northern Ireland Hospice; this entailed endurance challenges where he lived in a shop window in Belfast City Centre for more than nine days, and in September 2011 visited 105 towns and villages on a bed.