Leeds band the Kaiser Chiefs make a positive reference to him in their hit song "I Predict a Riot".
An audio recording of the Kaiser Chiefs cover "I Predict a Riot was included on the rarities disc of Girls Aloud's greatest hits album The Sound of Girls Aloud: The Greatest Hits. A live recording of "Biology" was an iTunes bonus track.
The show was reworked in a modern day setting, featuring songs such as Hard to Beat (Hard-Fi), Genie in a Bottle (Christina Aguilera) and I Predict a Riot (Kaiser Chiefs).
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Their output includes Bravo series I Predict a Riot and Virgin One's Rageh Omaar's Crime Invasion as well as the documentary The Real Dirk Diggler about the seventies porn star John Holmes.
The mock-classical adjectives Leodensian and Leodiensian are sometimes used by some local sports clubs, and the word Leodensian also features in the lyrics of "I Predict a Riot" by Kaiser Chiefs, although in that context it was referring to John Smeaton, a famous 18th-century resident of the city (who resided in Austhorpe Lodge on the site of Austhorpe Primary School) as a founder of Leeds Grammar School, as a Leeds Grammar School leaver is called an Old Leodensian.