Since I'm now having to get up in the mornings and actually working, I've carefully selected what music to listen to when I wake up and was just wondering what other people listen to in the mornings, be it a CD, radio station or whatever.

I've been waking up to Tom Wait's ''Closing Time'' recently and despite the fact that it is the ultimate drunken late-night record I've found it presents a nice gentle start to the day.

I may sustitute My Aim Is True for Elvis Costello on Mondays, though, since I can't help but be tickled by the idea of being awoken by ''Welcome To The Working Week''.

Chris Moyles. Listening to him blather on is a good incentive to get me up and turn down the radio. Listen to the news, get ready, go to work. The last thing I need in the morning is something that makes me sit back and listen. Do my music listening on the ipod once I leave home.

I was thinking today that Lemon Jelly's Nice Weather For Ducks would be perfect for a funeral as it's impossible to be depressed to, I suppose it could work for mornings. In fact Ramblin' Man would probably be better to start the day with.

Do you have to commute? Since I tend to get up quite a while before I have to get to work, what with only being a five minute drive away, I find that sitting back and listening works for me in the morning.

That and I can't stand Moyles even as an incentive to get me up.

Yup. I used to get up and watch TV for an hour or so (when I Love Lucy was On especially) or listen to the radio. But now I find getting up a struggle so it's just get up, get ready and get out

My phone wakes me up, I leave it on the other side of the room so I have to get up to turn the alarm off.

There are several spaces to programme in alarms and you can set a song for each. The two I use most often are 'Mr Blue Sky' by ELO and 'Day and Night' by Billie Piper.

Then I watch 'Just Shoot me' and 'Will and Grace' on C4 before listening to Terry Wogan on the 35 minute walk to work (usually 8:50am - 9:25am).

My phone alarm, when I remember to use it, which I should because it's pretty effective at waking me up, plays The Benny Hill Show chase theme. It was already on there, and it works, so I kept it.

That's more or less my morning as well. At Uni I always used to watch a film in the morning but I don't think I can handle that now I have to work.

I have to get up insanely early (5 am), so I play it safe and listen to NPR. I'm not subjected to Daniel Schorr's clicking dentures and frothy jowls until later though; the BBC World Service broadcasts until 6:00.

For a long time I used to put the vinyl of David Guetta's Just For One Day. These days I just chuck the shuffle function of the ipod on and see what comes up.

As do I.

My alarm changes with my whimsy but has recently been Blackfoot Roll by Mr Scruff. Can't help but be in decent form waking up to that tune.

I then listen to the radio (flicking between Radio 2, 4 & Radio Ulster) or what music I have on my phone depending on my mood, on what has become a rather pleasant 45 - 50 min walk to work since I moved near the river Lagan.

I also use my phone as my alarm. I tried having it on the other side of the room, but that just means I get up, traverse room, pick up phone, and take it back to bed, hitting snooze ten more times.

I have the piano intro of FFX set as my alarm at the moment, but it was the start of Incubus' 'Aqueous Transmission' for quite a while. I can't stand the regular beeping of a digital alarm clock, and I'm in no mood for happy songs first thing in the morning.

My phone alarm goes off at 7:30am

My alarm clock goes off at 7:45am

My TV is set to turn itself on at 8:00am

I am hard to get out of bed.

Well, my phone alarm is a chorus of Daleks yelling 'Exterminate!'. And Sarah Kennedy usually gets me up in the mornings.

That cannot be good for you.

Like Zoe, I'm hard to get out of bed.

And it's not like it really affects me. I wake up normally, and then prepare to go to work, and plan my rule of the Universe, and my crushing of the lesser beings, and the infinite rice pudding, etc, etc.

I've stuck a load of mp3s on my mobile so I can rotate my alarm tune as and when I wish. Right now it's Yellow Magic Orchestra with Behind the Mask: a soothing synth loop that increases in volume, then in come the funky electronic drums, and it's a struggle not to start nodding my head in time and getting out of bed with a spring in my step.

Whatever's on the radio, which, for some reason, tends to be Scorpions or Metallica lately. The 'classic rock' station can't seem to get enough of "No One Like You" or "Turn the Page." Apparently, there's been a consensus decision made never to play anything else...

This morning, though, the dial was tuned to National Public Radio, for some reason, so I woke up to snippets of sterile avant-jazz.

I just use any song that's on my phone. At the minute it's Tandem by Vanessa Paradis.

I once had Nightwish - Wishmaster on. It did the job a little too well - it gave me such a shock that I almost fell out of bed.

I now use songs with quieter openings.

Is that so that you and Mr. Depp both wake up to her?

no music, just silence.

I can't use mp3s for my phone alarm. My ringtone is a dalek saying "Communicate!"




Me too.


I don't listen to her programme though.


Arf!

Who said I did?

She's a cheeky minx, that Sarah.

She sure is, and you just know she's game for a laugh...

She's a voyeur, too.

Watching her, watching me, watching her, watching me.

you win t'interweb.

Fear Factory-540,000' Farenheit

Belle & Sebastian - For the Price of a Cup of Tea
Even better if you can get a shaft of sunshine coming in the window.

So to speak.

Any music by Elliott Smith suits me fine.

Sweet - Ballroom Blitz
and
The Pipettes - I like a boy in uniform (school uniform) because it has a loud whistle at the beginning.

Good call.

Today it's The Fiery Furnaces- Blueberry Boat for me.

I've just put "Walking on Sunshine" on my phone. I'd be tempted to make it my alarm, but I fear for the safety of my poor mobile.

Cheers - if twee pop puts a smile on your dial, a skip in your step, and a sunny disposition in you outlook for the morning, B&S have it in spades. Or you can listen to their songs about rape.

This little song, I'm not sure what it's called, but it goes,

beep beep beep,
BEEP BEEP BEEP,
BEEP BEEP BEEP,
BEEP BEEP BEEP,
BEEP BEEP BEEP,

It's on the radio every morning!

I know that one.

Hyperventil8 by Altern8, isn't it?

I've just watched the few minutes of the Prince gig that Sky News showed.

I'm now so pissed off that I didn't have the brass to go to one of the gigs.

He still rocks. If it comes out on DVD I'm buying.

Damn straight.

I've seen him live four times now, and the two gigs on this tour were by far the best - not that he was naff previously, but he was just really on top form for the O2 gigs, and in a generally buoyant, playful mood throughout. I'd loved to have gone to the closing night gig yesterday. I'll second the DVD comment too. If it was recorded for potential release, it should be a corker.