Morning Runner were an alternative rock band from Reading. They released one album, Wilderness Is Paradise Now, following top 20 single "Burning Benches", before their split in late 2007 due to commercial pressures from their record label, Parlophone.

Morning Runner are an alternative rock band from Reading. They released their critically acclaimed debut album, Wilderness Is Paradise Now, in March 2006, following top 20 single “Burning Benches”. Morning Runner met in Reading, Berkshire, while in different bands. Pianist Chris “Fields” Wheatcroft moved to Reading from Salisbury, where he had dropped out of his classical music course, and singer/guitarist Matthew Greener moved there with his parents in his early teens. Ali Clewer, drumm