When she was at school, some of the older kids had a nickname for Justine Jones: Slipknot Girl. As a title, it wasn’t exactly an un-earned one. During breaks, she’d stand in the playground in her Slipknot hoodie, listening to Slipknot on her Walkman, reading about Slipknot in Kerrang!. She was, she says, “A total mosher kid.” “I was mega into wanting to be Hayley Williams from Paramore as well,” she recalls. “I had the red hair, and the choppy cut that she had.” Justine still is a total mosher kid. There’s no Slipknot hoodie as she recounts this from the home offices of Church Road Records, the label she owns and runs with her husband and Employed To Serve guitarist Sammy Urwin, but that’s pretty much all that’s missing. Currently, Employed To Serve – ...
