Shed Seven: LNER's message celebrating band’s success

“Congrats from LNER to Shed Seven on their UK Official No.1 Album!” the message said, adding that the Sheds were the first band from York to have a Number One album.

LNER's message to Shed Seven at York railway station (Image: LNER)

The band thanked the York-based rail firm, writing on X (formerly Twitter): “For all the times you’ve had us to London and back etc we’ll forgive you [for] the occasional delay.”

On Friday (October 4), the Sheds’ latest album Liquid Gold – featuring reworked versions of some of their biggest hits like Chasing Rainbows – went straight to number one after being released a week earlier.

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It means they join a unique list of musicians – including the Beatles and Elvis Presley – to have two albums top the Official Charts in the same year.

The band landed their first Number One album with A Matter of Time in January, almost 30 years after forming in York.

“It’s amazing to say we’ve been going for 30 years and, I think, we’re having the best year we’ve probably ever had, which is crazy,” frontman Rick Witter told The Press of the band’s 2024 – a year that also saw them perform two sold out homecoming gigs in Museum Gardens.