Humour announce their forthcoming EP, A Small Crowd Gathered To Watch Me

“"Big Money" was inspired by a story I read about this Peruvian guy called Carlos Fitzcarrald who was a rubber baron in the late 19th Century," explains singer Andreas Christodoulidis. "He desperately wanted to get to an area of the Amazon basin that was rich in rubber but inaccessible by boat, which is why it hadn’t yet been claimed during the rubber boom. He exploited a group of indigenous Amazonian people, forcing them under pain of death to drag his steamboat in pieces over the mountain which separated him from the prized area. He was the basis for the character of Fitzcarraldo in the film of the same name by Werner Herzog."

At the tail end of last year Glasgow's Humour put out their debut EP, Pure Misery, a six-track fever dream that they called themselves "a montage of miserable things... a bit desperate and a bit grim, but also a bit ridiculous".

"There didn’t seem to be much written about this particular story that I could find online, so I was able to be quite liberal when inventing a personality for him. I imagined him being a temperamental character with a lot to prove, prone to violent outbursts and drinking," Christodoulidis continues. "I wanted to convey a sense of the destruction of the natural world and the traditions of an ancient people that materialised with the introduction of murder and disease to the Amazon by wealth-hungry interlopers.”

Tracklist:

1. A Small Crowd Gathered To Watch Me
2. Wrangel
   
3. Big Money
4. Take a Look at My Tongue
5. The Halfwit