You Can Do Athletics, btw

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“You Can Do Athletics, btw”
Single by We Are The Physics
Released April 21, 2008
Format 7"/CD
Genre Alternative rock
Label This Is Fake DIY Records
We Are The Physics singles chronology
Fear of Words / This Is Vanity
(2007)
You Can Do Athletics, btw
(2008)

Third single by We Are The Physics
This single was the first to be released on new label This Is Fake DIY Records.

You Can Do Athletics, btw is a song about upgrading the human body/posthumanism but is regularly introduced by singer Michael M as 'a song about running very fast'.

The single received radio airplay in the UK from Steve Lamacq and reached Number 8 in the UK Indie Charts.

The video for the single (directed by Colin Kennedy) featured the band as patients in a 1960s style hospital being 'upgraded' by singer Michael M (dressed as a doctor) in order to defeat a giant 50' woman attacking Glasgow.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "You Can Do Athletics, btw"
  2. "Filming Me Filming You"
  3. "You Can Do Athletics, btw [Unbummed Radio Edit]"