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JUSTINE JONES

SHE GREW UP as just another ‘greebo’ hanging around the streets of yet another boring provincial town in the United Kingdom. But Justine Jones has become one of the most important and influential figures in UK underground music. During the day she helps to fill our grateful ears with the cream of the world’s most punishing bands with her role as label manager for Holy Roar Records. By night, she steps up on stage to front the savage and ever-growing Employed To Serve. She’s never been shy of an opinion or two, and these are the lessons she lives her life by.

I’M A METAL LIFER

“I’ve been into this shit since I was 12 years old, I know I’m a lifer. It’s really funny to me when people go, ‘You still listen to that heavy stuff?’ and it’s like, ‘Yeah, it’s how I make my living!’ People

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