With punk strumming, and a dancing drum machine, Gemma Rogers’ The Great Escape, ponders the possibility of fucking it all off and Ferris Bueller-like generating some memories that “We can live forever in.”

The English Poet, playwright, and power player Gemma Rogers returns with new music after releasing her debut album just last year.

Witty punk poetess whisks us away to the coast…

Look, it’s mid January and it’s been pissing down relentlessly for weeks now. You desperately crave a little ray of sunshine, right? Perchance a sly lick of vanilla ice cream, a cheeky bounce on a beach ball? Well, help is at hand!

Gemma Rogers’ debut No Place Like Home is packed with pithy vignettes about being young in modern-day London. A partial heir to early Lily Allen, she shares her dry, observational humour and post-punk ska influence. The parallels with Allen’s Alright, Still embrace the messiness of drinking with friends, as she cheerfully confesses in a semi-spoken delivery, ‘My idea of fun, is a whole bottle of rum’.

“It’s a shitshow. A mockery. A conveyor belt of jokers,” spits Gemma Rogers. The former spoken-word artist has had a busy year giving birth to a daughter and dropping one of the most intriguing punk-pop albums of the century so far. And in the finest punk tradition, she’s also hopping mad about the UK’s dire political situation.

Boasting hard-hitting themes delivered with a fiery and passionate voice, Londoner Gemma Rogers’ music has been championed by the likes of Steve Lamacq and 6 Music.

No Place Like Home is the debut album from Londoner Gemma Rogers and it’s a fantastic Pic ‘N’ Mix of different musical styles and emotional moods. Rogers weaves story vignettes into her songs and the album feels like a compilation of award-winning short stories.

Yep it was ‘Out of Space’ by the Prodigy of all things at first and that was just the beginning of the madcap antics on ‘My Idea of Fun’.

IF THE STREETS AND LILY ALLEN WERE EVER TO HAVE A BABY, WE THINK GEMMA ROGERS MIGHT BE IT. HER NEW SINGLE ‘MY IDEA OF FUN’ IS A SUPER FUN SLICE OF INDIE-POP PUNK THAT WILL GET YOUR TOES TAPPING IN NO TIME.

Exciting new London singer- songwriter who mixes ska, punk and pop in a style that brings to mind Kate Nash crashing into Ian Dury as they both rush to catch the Tube.

We end today’s musical experience with some lighthearted fare. This does not mean the songwriting is of a lesser quality. Quite the contrary, what Londoner Gemma Rogers achieves on “My Idea of Fun” is nothing short of genius.

Gemma Rogers is a London indie-pop artist who might be a familiar name to RCM readers, and tonight was the launch party for her album ‘No Place Like Home’, which managed to draw in a bustling crowd

West London the singer-songwriter and playwright Gemma Rogers weaves a witty yet vulnerable exploration of day drinking on “My Idea of Fun,” with guitar riffs meeting melodic keys as Roger’s smooth vocals capture the trials of drinking in the afternoon.

They say: Gemma Rogers is a London fashion plate, a witty raconteur, a strange and compelling presence in England’s visionary avant–garde, and the owner of two dachshunds. “No Place Like Home” is her stunning debut album – depth, humour, romance and heartache, social commentary, imaginative wit, ludicrous fun and more from a brilliant new artist.

Individuality and the eccentric go hand in hand, and where some will turn their nose up at such actions of originality, the truth is the strange, the unpredictable, and the idiosyncratic will always find favourable smiles because they are true to human nature, they have refused to give in to the ordinary and average conceits, and they prove that there is No Place Like Home for spreading their own gospel on life, and that taking to the streets is a fate they are willing to expand upon.

On "Stop", Londonite Gemma Rogers utilizes acoustic guitars, minimal percussion, and theatrical vocals to create an idiosyncratic tirade on the pitfalls of our modern tech-obsessed lives.

Amidst the social media frenzied obsessive madness we find ourselves in, Gemma Rogers is creating a place of refuge.

She values human connection above all else and is on a quest to inspire a good time during our short lives on earth with her poignant lyrics and uniquely crafted indie pop punk sound.

“They know what drugs you take…they know about your holidays…’ sings Gemma Rogers in the opening verse of ‘Stop’ as she tackles digital surveillance and targeted advertising. After all, it’s pretty hard to escape nowadays. Which is why I’d love to tell you about my amazing new diet product! (Kidding.)

Gemma Rogers is trying to help us get more out of our lives by telling social media “no” and instead spending time with our friends, family, and looking up at the sky. Tired of seeing the people around her missing out on real-world fun, the London artist values human connection above anything and is on a mission to inspire others to take a liberating break from the invasive world of technology with her new single STOP.

Catchy, witty indie pop with a fabulous riff, and lyrics that offer an antidote to the addiction of staring at a smartphone and the invasive and personal nature of social media, taken from the forthcoming debut LP No Place Like Home, by the London artist. Out on Tiny Global Productions.

If you haven’t heard about Gemma Rogers yet, open Spotify immediately.The Londoner is relatively new on the scene, yet, her unique indie pop punk style has seen her take to festival stages at Latitude and Glastonbury, steadily building an army of loyal followers.

If you haven’t heard about Gemma Rogers yet, open Spotify immediately.The Londoner is relatively new on the scene, yet, her unique indie pop punk style has seen her take to festival stages at Latitude and Glastonbury, steadily building an army of loyal followers.

OSM: Who is Gemma Rogers and where are you from?
I’m still trying to figure that out myself. West london born and bred, cats not dogs, roasts over BBQs community over isolation and plenty of things in between.

Amidst the social media frenzied obsessive madness we find ourselves in, Gemma Rogers is creating a place of refuge. She values human connection above all else and is on a quest to inspire a good time during our short lives on earth with her poignant lyrics and uniquely crafted indie pop punk sound.