Athlete News

As the year comes to a close and news channels and print publications everywhere begin to compile the good, bad, and ugly events, styles, and figureheads of 2009, FILTER has decided to stick with the good and forget the rest.

Athlete have announced details of their forthcoming 'best of' collection. Called 'Wires' , the compilation will be released on January 18.

London, Sound check: Jamie Cullum joins the super buskers 27.11.09 Covent Garden 's street entertainers will have to move their flaming unicycles to one side over the next couple of weeks - the professionals are taking over.

British indie rockers Athlete will release their fourth studio album, Black Swan , on Feb.

Stephen Fry took part in a memorial service to read a poem about the "appalling mental strain" of war.

London: Prime Minister, Gordon Brown and wife Sarah Brown walk past Remembrance crosses for servicemen killed in conflict after a service at Westminster Abbey More latest pictures Paris: The Arc de Triomphe during an Armistice Day ceremony, marking the 91th anniversary of the end of World War I More latest pictures London: Queen Elizabeth II and ...

ONE of the country's biggest Indie bands is coming to Wrexham. As final arrangements are made for the Athlete gig at Central Station next Friday, Leader reporter Mark Taylor speaks to keyboard player Tim Wanstall.

Chart act Athlete are to donate proceeds from their new single to the Royal British Legion, following acts such as Radiohead and Mark Knopfler, it was announced today.

Athlete topped the bill on Saturday night THOUSANDS of festival-goers soaked up the sunshine on the first day of Harvest at Jimmy's. The two-day event music and food festival at Jimmy's Farm at Wherstead, near Ipswich, got off to a great start yesterday.

Birmingham's annual free arts and music festival runs this weekend . Athlete are the big name act of the weekend , but there is plenty of choice for everyone across three days and multiple stages and venues.

For almost 1,500 years, Europeans used the supposedly mythical black swan as a metaphor for something which could not exist.

Young Greenbelt Climate Justice supporter speaks with his hands [CAFOD] I ndie-rock heavyweights Athlete , the award-winning Hypnotic Brass Ensemble and Israeli peace-activist Jeff Halper joined hundreds of others at Greenbelt Festival this August bank holiday weekend in putting their hands up for climate justice.

Wednesday, 1.45pm: SKEGNESS' own rock band Djune will headline their own gig at the Embassy Theatre, Skegness, by popular demand on Thursday, September 3. The band is made up of brothers Ash and Phil Wilson, Greg Smith, Rob Patchett and Sam Ellis-Peech. They have already been making significant waves in the music industry, with support from the ...

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Athlete - Black Swan Rating 4/5 When they emerged in 2002, Athlete were hailed as one of the most exciting bands in Britain.

You must be pretty ticked off by now with people constantly comparing you to Coldplay... Coldplay? That's the first time I've heard them mentioned in the same breath as us.

Brooke Hogan, "The Redemption" Brooke Hogan may know best on her reality show, but she should have known better than churning out the lackluster album "The Redemption." It's all tricks, and few treats.

If there is one thing I detest about gigs then it has to be those pesky-in unison-crowd-pleasing handclaps that make me cringe and wince with embarrassment, and for some godforsaken reason, Athlete, have mastered this to a T. However, the charming surroundings of Somerset House cleansed my mind beforehand and I was gladly anticipating what was in ...

INDIE pop band Athlete will be closing their summer tour at The M Club in Crewe on July 24.

ATHLETE lit up the main stage as afternoon turned to evening on Saturday at GuilFest.