Grim Faeries

I first met Curse Mackey when I was working at Thoroughbred Music in Tampa in the late 1990s. He was putting together Grim Faeries and I was lucky enough to work with him from the ground floor. I remember driving around listening to demos on cassette as he was putting the project together. I was also working at RTH Studios that had a full ProTools Mix24+ system which was pretty advanced for 1998. So, it was only natural that we would get those demos to RTH and get them recorded.

Christina had already been an old friend. I had known her for around 10 years at that time, even when she was dancing for U2. Together they were a powerhouse on stage. The songs eventually made it to their first demo release, then most of them ended up on ‘Disenchanted Forest’. We did a Florida/New Orleans/Texas tour which was a wild time. My band Virelie even played at Curse and Christina’s wedding! A ton of stories!

We are all still great friends and stay in touch, but helping Grim Faeries while they worked on Ultima Online 2 was very exciting. I miss all of it, it was such a wonderful time!