COMING UP ROSES at STRONGROOM BAR

	20th June 2025
	LONDON
	STRONGROOM BAR

Coming Up Roses are fronted by singer/bassist Emily Sera, who relocated from Singapore to the UK in late 2022 together with guitarist Darius Oon so they could pursue their dream of being in a band as a full-time career. They subsequently met and joined forces with guitarist Charlie Wilson and drummer Caleb Blake.

Discussing the central themes of the upcoming album, Emily states that “we drew a lot on our personal emotional journey of our move to the UK and the record touches on things that people might not necessarily want to show the world. Although not everyone can relate to uprooting their lives, most people can relate to introspective struggles and the repercussions of things that keep them awake at night.”

In regard to its songs, she continues: “it’s guitar-driven alt-rock with pop sensibilities, kind of like if Paramore had more shoegaze and dreampop influences. We’re also a lot more focused on the storytelling element of our music.” Darius adds: “we wanted to write a record that people can sing along to, but also mosh and cry to. It is definitely a shift towards our more ‘rock’ sound that we’ve hinted at previously, while there is also a bit more of an open, grandiose feeling on certain songs. We also had the album title for a while; it’s about questioning how you could let yourself fall to a point that you feel like you don’t recognise yourself, but also seeks to reflect on how society can reject those feelings by ignoring them.”

Album launch show 
LONDON
20th June | STRONGROOM BAR
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