Setting up a record label in a global pandemic is perhaps not the wisest thing to do. And yet, against all odds, Employed To Serve singer Justine Jones and her guitar playing husband Sammy Urwin have managed to do just that. Their decision to do so followed the traumatic closure of Holy Roar – the influential UK label to which Employed To Serve had been signed, prior to inking their deal with major label Spinefarm – in September 2020. Having worked at Holy Roar for eight years and with a small stake in the label, Justine was acutely aware of just what its collapse represented to its key artists, a number of whom had albums ready for imminent release. Both Justine and Sammy felt obliged to try and salvage the situation and, admirably enough, they managed to do ...
