Athlete - Chances

Athlete is an Ivor Novello Award winning English indie rock band formed in Deptford, London, comprising Joel Pott (lead vocals and guitar), Carey Willetts (bass and backing vocals), Stephen Roberts (drums and backing vocals) and Tim Wanstall (keyboards and backing vocals). Recently, the quartet have recruited Jonny Pilcher of Weevil as a live guitarist.

Friends since the age of fourteen, Athlete took their wide ranging influences such as Grandaddy and The Flaming Lips and started jamming and practicing in the basement of The Bear, a pub which was converted into a church and sandwich bar, on Deptford High Street in 1999. They began recording there, before sending demos out.

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[Caroline Woodruff]

Van Gogh is the finest painter of them all Themost beloved his command of colour most magnificent He transformed the pain of his tormented life intoecstatic beauty Pain is easy to portray but to use your passion and pain to portray theecstasy and joy and magnificence of our world no one had ever done it before Perhaps no one ever will again To my mind that strange wild man who roamed the fields of Provence was not only the worlds greatest artist but also one of the greatest men who ever lived

[Miku Hatsune]

Vincent and The Doctor have got to be one of my favorite episodes in Doctor who, I got into liking Vincent's pictures more and more, and oh my god I cried so much with Vincent in that episode xD

[kidkakashihatake]

Both the Athlete and Doctor Who are amazing!



[MrSmid888]

I hate doctor who.I love Athlete. :)

[Nick Payne]

The monster wasn't really important... IMHO the whole episode was written specifically with that last scene in mind. :)

[Rosie Brookshaw]

Such a good episode, simply cannot watch the scene at the end with Bill Nighy without tears. Doctor Who writers should do more with historic figures, it really was a touching episode!

[rrpjdisc]

I literally cannot listen to this song anymore, because it's too fucking sad reminding me of Amy!! And just god damn, that Vincent and the Doctor episode is one of the most beautiful fucking things I've ever seen before!!

[Susie Perkins]

I love it when the Doctor interacts with historic figures in episodes. This one is one of my favorites :)

[Kev Kelly]

it was powerfull

[InfinityAvenue]

My top 3 Doctor Who's. The only thing that let it down was the monster...

[Luiz dead]

Doctor Who*