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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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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hey, you have learned too, Yes, that's true.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
For see why for you your.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe
Man W four Cy Radio and I'm.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Here with James from Rough Justice and I'm ed from
Rough Justice.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Nice here at Bloodstock, Man, that's pretty freaking cool.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Hell yeah, it's been awesome today. Yeah, it's my first
time at the festival.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
It's been unbelievable. Really enjoyed it. Yeah, what a festival.
Happy to be here, really enjoying it.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
So what got you to Bloodstock?

Speaker 3 (00:38):
About thirteen years of writing and recording music that we love.
We're not a very active band, but it's nice to
get a bit of recognition from playing representing our city
over the years.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
And yeah, I think people like the music we play.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Were a hardcore band, were used to kind of like
smaller crowds and that sort of stuff.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
But it's awesome to play at Bloodstock definitely.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
And so what was the vibe for you here? You know, like,
how did it feel? Was it what you expected or more?

Speaker 2 (01:04):
I think the vibe was absolutely perfect.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
I think we inject a bit of energy into into
the stage that we played.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
We had a post doc.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
Post BOC post doc post rock band on Beat, So
we had a post rock band on before us who
were really really good My Diligence, and I think for
us to come on and like kind of change the
vibe a little bit, like a bit more energy and
everything was really exciting.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, really cool, really exciting.

Speaker 5 (01:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
And so how do so many good artists come out
of Sheffield?

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, it's weird, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yeah, there's a long, long history, you know, even go
like regardless of genre. You know, you've got like Artip
Monkey's Pulp going back a long time.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Can you even go back exactly? Man, that's wild. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Well but you know, like.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Ire eras more group listening to like Bringing the Horizon
and While She Sleeps and that sort of stuff. So
I think we've got a lot of the bands from
Sheffield all had very very unique sounds. I feel like,
and I don't really know where that came from, but
I feel like we are another example of that where
I can't really put us in any box, but we
kind of like that that we don't really sound like
many other bands, so that something in the water.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
I love that.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Too, because I find that a lot of bands nowadays
use like a formula and I come from the old
days where bands were in the same genre and they
didn't sound alike, you know, and then now it's like
somebody sound like. I love hearing bands like you that
are unique, have your own sound, your own influences even

(02:32):
bring me a rise. And like the what the changes
that they've made a lot of people give them made.
I think it's cool. Man. Like I always said in
an interview, why do I want to write the same
song over and over again?

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah? So true.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, so as somebody that's from America has now interviewed
a bunch of Sheffield bands that I really didn't before
that no clue that Sheffield like was this like epicenter
of great fucking music. Like, what do you think it
is about Sheffield? What is the scene like there?

Speaker 3 (03:08):
The scene's very very good at the minute, Like from
growing up watching a lot of like hardcore bands that
friends were playing and stuff. There's a lot of like
smaller venues in Sheffield, and I think one of the
things that works for Sheffield is the fact there's a
lot of like physical space. It's an old industrial city,
so there's a lot of like practice rooms and like
you know in industrial units, and that sort of thing.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
So a lot of like repurpose.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Space for people to like actually play music in and stuff.
And for us, the hardcore Seeing Shepherd used to be
really good, like just before we got into it, but
as we got into it, it wasn't too great and we
saw opportunities kind of like fill a space, didn't we
But yeah, it's I don't really know.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
I can't put a finger on what it is exactly really, and.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
That's good too, because it's just I don't know. I
guess you're just born that way.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
There.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
What was that one moment for each one of you
that you knew this is what you wanted to do?

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Well?

Speaker 4 (03:56):
I mean, by no means are we a band that
just does this. We all our own lives, you know,
we've all got stuff going on. But our band has
always been a band that has done it for enjoyment,
doing it for enjoyment of playing the same kind of
music that we want to play and injecting our own
kind of influences on it.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
And I think that's testament.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
To why we're still together thirteen years later, because we
never kind of set out making this band.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
To be like, right, we're gonna do this for like
some career or anything's been. A band just happened. We
like metal, we like hardcore, we like all this music.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
Let's just play some riffs and see what happens, and
it brings us to Bloodstock.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
It's really cool.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah. For me, it was the scariness of hardcore. We're
seeing limbs in the air, people trying to hurt each other,
element of danger with something that really got me. And
there's quite someone who's quite I don't know, I'm quite
sensitive person. You know, I'm not a fighter and a lover,
not a fighter, but I like that element of danger
of hardcore.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
And it's also a good place to get all the
bullshit out of you spent in the world, your life
and everything else. Instead of danger out there, they could
get in big trouble.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
Yeah, one hundred percent. I mean hardcore is one of
those kind of genres where it's one of those things
like when you go to a hardcore gig, I think
it's arguably the same with metal. You go to one
of those gigs and for somebody who doesn't listen to it,
it sounds quite scary and it might sound quite terrifying,
but really, when you're there watching a band and you're
there in the pit and you know the band's playing.

(05:23):
It's almost paradoxically, it's the nicest place to be, right,
It's really really nice place to be. It's like the
most welcoming place to be. And I was at bloodsot
last year watching some bands and there were pits going on,
like circle pits, and people have fall over and the
trophies people fall over and everyone picks them up and
all that. But it's true think from the outside in

(05:44):
it very much seems like an angry place to be,
and it is an angry place to be because it
vents a lot of kind of those emotions, But when
you're listening to it and when you're there consuming it
as a listener at festivals like Bloodstock, do you.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Know what I mean, it's not an angry place. It's
a happy place. And I think that's something that's brought
us all together one hundred percent.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
That's the irony. Like people think it's such an angry place,
and I think you're angry going in, but then like
for me, even grin ear to ear like in all
that anger, that's the key right there.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I always think we like with hardcore,
with metal, there's very much a sense of like, we're
all in this together, and I think that's something we
should protect. I think, really think that's something we should
protect and keep his finger on.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
I think if we want to solve all the world's
problems right now, we should just have one festival that
the whole world is supposed to.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Go to and one big marsh pit.

Speaker 4 (06:40):
If everything in the world was into metal and hardcore,
we would be laughing. We'd be laughing because festivals like
this everyone's happy exactly. So like, so blow that up
and we'll be sound.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
And I think we're happy because we do have an
outlet for our anger and the ship that is going
on in the world and the things that are going
on in our head, and you can just disappear from
all that and get it all out. As something really
tragic happened last year. The next day, I was saying,
a sligher pit and I just left it all in

(07:15):
the fucking pit and I walked at her and I
was fine.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
So it's all about man.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
Yeah, I think I'm a like I said earlier, I'm
a very like calm person, and I think I can
attribute a lot of that to be able to play
gigs and also be in the mosh pit myself and
like get it all out And I feel way better
after doing that sort of thing.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
So and it does make you calmer the people that
are really pissed off because they have no outlet, so
the angler just sits and stews in them.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, just mush hard. You'll feel better there.

Speaker 5 (07:42):
It is.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Metal's the best medicine, no.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
Doubt about it, one million percent. How do people reach
out to you guys to check out all your socials
merge everything?

Speaker 3 (07:56):
Yeah, a nice one. Yeah, We're on Instagram at rough
Justice mlv.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
Ltd. That's the Instagram. That's pretty much where we are.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
You can find our merchant stuff on mlv ltd dot com.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
Anything else you want to talk about that we haven't
covered already that you want people to know besides you're
a new single.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
Yeah, I just want to say, pay attention to what's
going on in your local scene, in your local area.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
That's why we're here.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
I think, because we've always been a part of the
local shit going on where we're from, you should do
the same.

Speaker 4 (08:26):
I'll just say, never listen to a band because they're
uncool to listen to. Well, I'll say never listen to
a band because they're uncol to listen to. If a
band's not cool, that doesn't mean you shouldn't listen to him.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
I love it, and tell them real quick about the
new single and anything else you want to get.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Off your chest.

Speaker 4 (08:45):
Yeah, we released Faith in Vain, our last LP a
couple of years ago, and we've got some We've got
some really really good tunes in the pipeline. They're sounding
really good, developing our sound further. It's getting more exciting.
And how fully be back at Bloodstock soon.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
I hope so too. And I gotta tell you your
band name. I never talked about band names, but it
was the perfect name for everything we just talked about
because the pit is the rough justice place.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
Love it.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Thanks a lot for being here at Bloodstock, and thanks
for being on the Adventures bye man.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
Thanks very much.

Speaker 5 (09:21):
Michelle Kerr was my press officer for my entire fucking
career here in the UK, my entire career with Machine.
She recently passed away and it was a very very
sad day. And I can tell you the reason that
I'm gonna tell this story because she was family, She

(09:44):
was Bloodstock family, she was heavy metal UK family. Most
of the bands that you know and love you probably
heard of because of that woman right there, Slip Knots, Machinehead, Trivium, Killswitch, Engage,
Hey Reed, you name it. She helped lift everybody up man.

(10:10):
She helped lift everybody up, and in so many ways,
she helped make this entire music scene, this incredible, beautiful
community that lives here at bloodstock Man. She helped make it.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
So, ladies and.

Speaker 5 (10:24):
Gentlemen, please make some noise from Michelle Kerr.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
Thank you for listening to the adventures of plate Man
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