Politics, personal connections and escapism combine in launch party for Gemma Rogers’ latest EP
London-based Gemma Rogers and her band introduced the world to her latest EP, No Future, with a performance full of energy, wit, anger, love and mischief, at Dash the Henge, the lovingly curated record shop flying the flag for Camberwell’s burgeoning music scene.
The first time I encountered Rogers, she was introducing her grandmother, who had come to recite poetry at the inaugural 19something festival in Reading. Somehow events conspired to prevent me watching Gemma herself play, but the festival was supposedly the genesis of the current lineup of her band, consisting of the charming Devid Dell'Aiera on bass, Andy Skipper on guitar and Jeremy Barnett on drums. Less than a year later it's hard to believe this unit has had such a short time together.
