Cathy Rogers During the same period, she played keyboards and sang vocals in the twee pop group Heavenly. In 1995 Rogers moved to the independent production company RDF Media, where she helped devise and produced the popular Channel 4 technology reality game show "Scrapheap Challenge", known in North America as "Junkyard Wars". She appeared onscreen as co-presenter of "Scrapheap Challenge" from the second series onwards until 2001 when Lisa Rogers (no relation) took over, and of "Junkyard Wars" for the first three series until replaced by Karyn Bryant. She also created and hosted a related programme, "Full Metal Challenge". She continued her
Junkyard Empire beautifully re-mastered tracks from the band's previous breakout record Rebellion Politik. Having four successful studio albums under their belt the band briefly toured throughout the Midwest, East and West coasts, but found that to be less than representative of what they stand for as a band. Having members now spread across the United States (Minneapolis/Saint Paul, Portland, Ore., Brooklyn, NY), Junkyard Empire had decidedly shifted their energy from playing standard club performances to making major dissident political appearances. Homing in on the impact of performing live during the RNC protests, Junkyard Empire traveled to New York in spring of 2010