The Rotations Want You to Stop Thinking and Start Listening
Punk Head: 'Gung Ho' seems to navigate between dark humour and social commentary. How do you decide which cultural or personal observations become lyrics?
The Rotations: When one assumes one is making decisions its time to go for a walk and leave anything that is being destroyed by thought to drop to the cutting room floor.
Punk Head: Glasgow has a fiercely independent underground scene. How has that environment shaped your band identity and approach to experimentation?
The Rotations: It hasn't, it doesn't and it won't, the concept of ferocity in The Glasgow Music scene is hilarious, it could probably do with some. We don't fraternise with anyone who would claim to be a part of it., we never have and never will, it most certainly has no bearing whatsoever on our identity or approach to anything.
Punk Head: The album dropped on Friday the 13th — was that superstition, performance art, or pure serendipity?
The Rotations: No
Punk Head: Your live shows are described as “an experience to behold.” What’s one moment on stage that always surprises even you?
The Rotations: Behold! They walk to the end of their shadows. If I notice anything when I'm onstage I'm not doing my job, in order to find oneself and channel the duende (look it up), between act and audience, one has to lose oneself, there is nothing special about a musician, that is the age old lie, anyone can do it, its something that is drummed out of us as children; behave, allow the alarm for school to interrupt your dream, turn up to places you don't want to go, engage with people you never want to see again, suit up, boot up, show up, don't be silly.
Punk Head: Fans have called your sound “junkyard cacophony” — would you describe that as a badge of honour or a warning label?
The Rotations: Anyone trying to describe sound might as well try and explain colour to a blind orangutan, I'd encourage them to open their ears, and their minds, if they can. Warning people off of listening to music would be a touch counterintuitive. Listen, and never learn.
