Aug. 11, 2025

PipemanRadio Interviews Rough Justice at Bloodstock Open Air 2025

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PipemanRadio Interviews Rough Justice at Bloodstock Open Air 2025.

The Pipeman Radio tour landed at The UK’s biggest independent metal festival featuring not only some of the biggest bands in Heavy Metal and Hard Rock, but also some of the best emerging metal music out of the UK and Europe competing in Metal 2 The Masses for a spot to play on New Blood Stage. The festival also features The Sophie Lancaster Stage dedicated to the memory of Sophie being brutally beaten and murdered just for being Goth and different. Sophie’s story particularly resonating with anyone who has been bullied, abused, or attacked for simply being who they are. The mission of The Sophie Lancaster Foundation is to stamp out prejudice, hatred and intolerance everywhere. This festival is more than just great music, fun, awareness, and togetherness. It's a family driven DIY Festival that cares where there ar eno outsiders. We join together for a common cause.

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Hey, you have learned too, Yes, that's true.

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For see why for you your.

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This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe

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Man W four Cy Radio and I'm.

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Here with James from Rough Justice and I'm ed from

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Rough Justice.

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Nice here at Bloodstock, Man, that's pretty freaking cool.

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Hell yeah, it's been awesome today. Yeah, it's my first

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time at the festival.

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It's been unbelievable. Really enjoyed it. Yeah, what a festival.

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Happy to be here, really enjoying it.

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So what got you to Bloodstock?

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About thirteen years of writing and recording music that we love.

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We're not a very active band, but it's nice to

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get a bit of recognition from playing representing our city

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over the years.

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And yeah, I think people like the music we play.

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Were a hardcore band, were used to kind of like

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smaller crowds and that sort of stuff.

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But it's awesome to play at Bloodstock definitely.

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And so what was the vibe for you here? You know, like,

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how did it feel? Was it what you expected or more?

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I think the vibe was absolutely perfect.

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I think we inject a bit of energy into into

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the stage that we played.

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We had a post doc.

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Post BOC post doc post rock band on Beat, So

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we had a post rock band on before us who

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were really really good My Diligence, and I think for

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us to come on and like kind of change the

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vibe a little bit, like a bit more energy and

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everything was really exciting.

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Yeah, really cool, really exciting.

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Yeah.

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And so how do so many good artists come out

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of Sheffield?

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Yeah, it's weird, isn't it.

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Yeah, there's a long, long history, you know, even go

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like regardless of genre. You know, you've got like Artip

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Monkey's Pulp going back a long time.

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Can you even go back exactly? Man, that's wild. Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Well but you know, like.

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Ire eras more group listening to like Bringing the Horizon

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and While She Sleeps and that sort of stuff. So

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I think we've got a lot of the bands from

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Sheffield all had very very unique sounds. I feel like,

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and I don't really know where that came from, but

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I feel like we are another example of that where

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I can't really put us in any box, but we

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kind of like that that we don't really sound like

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many other bands, so that something in the water.

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I love that.

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Too, because I find that a lot of bands nowadays

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use like a formula and I come from the old

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days where bands were in the same genre and they

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didn't sound alike, you know, and then now it's like

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somebody sound like. I love hearing bands like you that

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are unique, have your own sound, your own influences even

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bring me a rise. And like the what the changes

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that they've made a lot of people give them made.

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I think it's cool. Man. Like I always said in

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an interview, why do I want to write the same

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song over and over again?

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Yeah? So true.

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Yeah, so as somebody that's from America has now interviewed

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a bunch of Sheffield bands that I really didn't before

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that no clue that Sheffield like was this like epicenter

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of great fucking music. Like, what do you think it

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is about Sheffield? What is the scene like there?

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The scene's very very good at the minute, Like from

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growing up watching a lot of like hardcore bands that

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friends were playing and stuff. There's a lot of like

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smaller venues in Sheffield, and I think one of the

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things that works for Sheffield is the fact there's a

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lot of like physical space. It's an old industrial city,

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so there's a lot of like practice rooms and like

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you know in industrial units, and that sort of thing.

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Space for people to like actually play music in and stuff.

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really good, like just before we got into it, but

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as we got into it, it wasn't too great and we

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saw opportunities kind of like fill a space, didn't we

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But yeah, it's I don't really know.

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I can't put a finger on what it is exactly really, and.

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That's good too, because it's just I don't know. I

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guess you're just born that way.

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There.

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What was that one moment for each one of you

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that you knew this is what you wanted to do?

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Well?

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I mean, by no means are we a band that

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just does this. We all our own lives, you know,

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we've all got stuff going on. But our band has

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always been a band that has done it for enjoyment,

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doing it for enjoyment of playing the same kind of

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music that we want to play and injecting our own

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kind of influences on it.

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And I think that's testament.

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To why we're still together thirteen years later, because we

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never kind of set out making this band.

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To be like, right, we're gonna do this for like

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some career or anything's been. A band just happened. We

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like metal, we like hardcore, we like all this music.

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Let's just play some riffs and see what happens, and

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it brings us to Bloodstock.

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It's really cool.

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Yeah. For me, it was the scariness of hardcore. We're

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seeing limbs in the air, people trying to hurt each other,

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element of danger with something that really got me. And

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there's quite someone who's quite I don't know, I'm quite

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sensitive person. You know, I'm not a fighter and a lover,

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not a fighter, but I like that element of danger

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of hardcore.

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And it's also a good place to get all the

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bullshit out of you spent in the world, your life

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and everything else. Instead of danger out there, they could

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get in big trouble.

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Yeah, one hundred percent. I mean hardcore is one of

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those kind of genres where it's one of those things

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like when you go to a hardcore gig, I think

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it's arguably the same with metal. You go to one

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of those gigs and for somebody who doesn't listen to it,

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it sounds quite scary and it might sound quite terrifying,

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but really, when you're there watching a band and you're

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there in the pit and you know the band's playing.

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It's almost paradoxically, it's the nicest place to be, right,

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It's really really nice place to be. It's like the

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most welcoming place to be. And I was at bloodsot

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last year watching some bands and there were pits going on,

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like circle pits, and people have fall over and the

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trophies people fall over and everyone picks them up and

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all that. But it's true think from the outside in

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it very much seems like an angry place to be,

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and it is an angry place to be because it

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vents a lot of kind of those emotions, But when

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you're listening to it and when you're there consuming it

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as a listener at festivals like Bloodstock, do you.

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Know what I mean, it's not an angry place. It's

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a happy place. And I think that's something that's brought

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us all together one hundred percent.

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That's the irony. Like people think it's such an angry place,

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and I think you're angry going in, but then like

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for me, even grin ear to ear like in all

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that anger, that's the key right there.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, I always think we like with hardcore,

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with metal, there's very much a sense of like, we're

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all in this together, and I think that's something we

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should protect. I think, really think that's something we should

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protect and keep his finger on.

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I think if we want to solve all the world's

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problems right now, we should just have one festival that

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the whole world is supposed to.

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Go to and one big marsh pit.

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If everything in the world was into metal and hardcore,

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we would be laughing. We'd be laughing because festivals like

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this everyone's happy exactly. So like, so blow that up

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and we'll be sound.

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And I think we're happy because we do have an

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outlet for our anger and the ship that is going

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on in the world and the things that are going

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on in our head, and you can just disappear from

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all that and get it all out. As something really

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tragic happened last year. The next day, I was saying,

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a sligher pit and I just left it all in

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the fucking pit and I walked at her and I

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was fine.

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So it's all about man.

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Yeah, I think I'm a like I said earlier, I'm

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a very like calm person, and I think I can

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attribute a lot of that to be able to play

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gigs and also be in the mosh pit myself and

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like get it all out And I feel way better

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after doing that sort of thing.

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So and it does make you calmer the people that

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are really pissed off because they have no outlet, so

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the angler just sits and stews in them.

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Yeah, just mush hard. You'll feel better there.

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It is.

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Metal's the best medicine, no.

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Doubt about it, one million percent. How do people reach

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out to you guys to check out all your socials

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merge everything?

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Yeah, a nice one. Yeah, We're on Instagram at rough

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Justice mlv.

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Ltd. That's the Instagram. That's pretty much where we are.

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You can find our merchant stuff on mlv ltd dot com.

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Anything else you want to talk about that we haven't

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covered already that you want people to know besides you're

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a new single.

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Yeah, I just want to say, pay attention to what's

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going on in your local scene, in your local area.

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That's why we're here.

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I think, because we've always been a part of the

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local shit going on where we're from, you should do

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the same.

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I'll just say, never listen to a band because they're

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uncool to listen to. Well, I'll say never listen to

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a band because they're uncol to listen to. If a

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band's not cool, that doesn't mean you shouldn't listen to him.

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That's it.

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I love it, and tell them real quick about the

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new single and anything else you want to get.

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Off your chest.

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Yeah, we released Faith in Vain, our last LP a

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couple of years ago, and we've got some We've got

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some really really good tunes in the pipeline. They're sounding

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really good, developing our sound further. It's getting more exciting.

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And how fully be back at Bloodstock soon.

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I hope so too. And I gotta tell you your

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band name. I never talked about band names, but it

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was the perfect name for everything we just talked about

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because the pit is the rough justice place.

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Love it.

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Thanks a lot for being here at Bloodstock, and thanks

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for being on the Adventures bye man.

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Thanks very much.

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Michelle Kerr was my press officer for my entire fucking

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career here in the UK, my entire career with Machine.

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She recently passed away and it was a very very

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sad day. And I can tell you the reason that

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I'm gonna tell this story because she was family, She

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was Bloodstock family, she was heavy metal UK family. Most

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of the bands that you know and love you probably

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heard of because of that woman right there, Slip Knots, Machinehead, Trivium, Killswitch, Engage,

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Hey Reed, you name it. She helped lift everybody up man.

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She helped lift everybody up, and in so many ways,

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she helped make this entire music scene, this incredible, beautiful

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community that lives here at bloodstock Man. She helped make it.

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So, ladies and.

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Gentlemen, please make some noise from Michelle Kerr.

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Thank you for listening to the adventures of plate Man

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on w for CUI Radio.