***ATHLETE*** – yes it’s the homepage of ***ATHLETE***, and if you go there it will play you their single “Beautiful”, which I’d never heard until just now. It’s a bit ordinary, especially in its use of dynamics. But in another sense it’s not ordinary AT ALL, because ***ATHLETE*** have the misfortune of being this week’s Real Music Martyrs. “Beautiful” joins John Squire’s “Joe Louis” and Primal Scream’s “Autobahn 66” on the list of singles which would have been Top 40 hits but for the existence of Pop Idol and Popstars and their associated singles. As ever, we neither delight in nor deplore a single’s exclusion – readers are encouraged to decide for themselves. Who, one wonders, will be next?