YORK’S finest, Shed Seven, wowed the Yorkshire crowd over the weekend with a little “riotous” help from another local favourite.

The Sheds played Millennium Square, Leeds, in a mini-festival on Saturday and Sunday, alongside fellow Nineties' indie stars The Bluetones and Ocean Colour Scene.

The latter topped the bill, playing their critically acclaimed album Moseley Shoals from start to finish, plus several other classics.

But top drawer were the York indie aces, playing an hour of their usual classics in a typically stellar show, culminating as usual in that favourite of all the crowd favourites, Chasing Rainbows.

Fellow York star Chris Helme, he of Seahorses fame of course, joined them for a special rendition of High Hopes, though the biggest highlight for many in the Leeds crowd – and for the boys in the band – was their cover of Kaiser Chiefs’ I Predict A Riot, which became appropriately unruly when they were joined on stage by none other than Ricky Wilson.

The Leeds-based Kaisers frontman, more famous these days as a judge on TV talent show The Voice, was a special surprise guest on Saturday night following his own band’s show at York Racecourse 24 hours earlier, and he appeared very much to be enjoying himself – ironically much more than the punters who were left frustrated by the long, slow queues to buy beer.

Standing over drummer Alan Leach, holding on to a cymbal for balance, purposefully bumping into guitarist Paul Banks and wrestling singer Rick Witter to the ground made the cover suitably riotous, but the band loved it and the fans lapped it up with a gusto of their own.

Witter had earlier pointed out this was the closest the Sheds would come to a home-town gig this summer, notwithstanding their show at Fibbers earlier this month of course. They certainly had Yorkshire fires burning again before Birmingham boys OCS took centre stage.