Micah Richards danced like there was no tomorrow as he relished every moment of a former team-mate’s DJ set at Reading Festival.
Footage shows the former Manchester City and England star bursting onto the scene with a bottle of Jagermeister as he worked his way through the crowd on Sunday.
Once at the front, Richards let rip with some frenetic dance moves and within seconds was making friends with seeming strangers.Â
Decked out in a black shirt and sunglasses, the popular pundit linked arms with a chap in an Arsenal shirt, and another topless reveller, and started bouncing around wildly. His newfound crowd looked surprised at first but quickly grew into their bond.Â
Richards had turned up to enjoy the festival debut of none other than Joleon Lescott, who also won the Premier League with City and played for England.Â
The duo shared the pitch 100 times during their careers but this was a completely different type of partnership.
Micah Richards was loving life on Sunday as he took in Joleon Lescott’s Reading Festival DJ set
The former Man City star worked his way to the front row and partied hard with strangers
Lescott was delighted to see his old team-mate enjoying his house music set on SundayÂ
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Lescott beamed and pointed at Richards as he spotted his old friend in the front row and hypnotised him with his beats.Â
A two-time Premier League winner, Lescott’s father was also a DJ and he has been working on his passion for years, with plans to make it a full-time gig.
House music is his jam and on Sunday at 6pm, he was given the chance to show what he can do at the Jagermeister Stage.
The crowd appeared to love it, as people bounced around with their arms in the air while he jockeyed the discs.Â
He told The Rest Is Football last year: ‘Yeah, that is a thing, real ambition to do [a DJing career].
‘I had some gigs in the summer but when you get this call from a friend who says “do you want to be part of the England set-up?” I kind of had to park it.
‘But, yeah, I still train. It’s the closest thing I have to playing, in terms of the feeling it gives me.
‘House now, like deep house and stuff.
Lescott, a former Man City defender, has been working on his DJing passion for yearsÂ
Lescott won two Premier League titles with Manchester City and played 26 times for England
Last year he said his ambition was to be a full-time DJ, but work with England was his priority
He had a very successful career, making 614 appearances over the course of his career
‘So, you kind of have to recognise what most of the younger generation listen to.
‘I grew up on garage but there’s not many people listening to that now.’
Lescott is a big name in English football, having made 614 appearances across his career for Man City, Everton, Wolves, West Brom, Aston Villa, Sunderland, and AEK Athens.Â
He also turned out 26 times for England.Â
Since retiring, he has been a coach with the England under-21s in Lee Carsley’s set-up and followed him to the senior side when Gareth Southgate left.
Since retiring aged 34 in 2017, he has made no secret of his passion for DJing, showing off various nights he has played at on social media.
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Micah Richards bops his way into a DJ set by a former Man City team-mate at Reading Festival – as he unleashes moves alongside bemused strangers