British power pop hype WET LEG from the Isle of Wight (UK)
proved that the press was right with their self-titled debut LP
released last April. A colorful collection of sickly addictive tunes
with witty, absurd, and hilarious stories.
(Photo by Turn Up The Volume – Belgium – 10 Aug 2022)
Since then the utterly cool duo is everywhere. At big
festivals (like last August in Belgium, making me smile
from start to finish), on TV, in the charts, in magazines,
on the Net.
Last Saturday at the 4-day Pukkelpop Festival (Belgium) was
the one that made me forget the tiredness and the smelliness
on a hot summer day.
Here’s TUTV’s top 5
Band: THE MURDER CAPITAL Who: Irish brats from Dublin, looking/moving like brats, but my oh my,
these brats were brilliant. Oh I forget, those porno mustaches have to go. Album: WHEN I HAVE FEARS
More! More! More!
THE MURDER CAPITAL: Facebook – Instagram
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Band: WET LEG Who: Two utterly cool songstresses.
This year’s sensation. Album: WET LEG (2022)
Band: KILLS BIRDS Who: Hefty post-punk-grunge trio from
California with an amazing bird in the middle.
Foo fighter Dave Grohl is a big fan. Albums: KILLS BIRDS (2019) and MARRIED
Last May British mega hypeWET LEG from the Isle of Wight confirmed their
press-given status of new guitar-pop queens with their self-titled debut LP.
A sparkling collection of sickly addictive tunes with witty, absurd, and hilarious stories.
Yesterday night I saw them play live for the first time. It happened at the (always) fantastic 4-day Pukkelpop Festival in Belgium. What a sweaty-stimulating-spirited- sensational show it was. With the volume way up (compared to the album’s sweet sound) the packed-as-sardines tent went berserk.
The two wet legs, Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers, just like the word-by-word singing/swinging along crowd, couldn’t care less about the sauna temperature. It was
pure rhapsody. Man, oh, man life can be so over-the-top-fun at times. And that’s what
we ALL felt last night., over the top.
RHIAN
HESTER
RHIAN & HESTER
Their performance of their super striking stroke Chaise Lounge at this year’s Glastonbury festival will give you and idea about what thousands and I experienced yesterday night.
After all these years, the brothers Dewaele, my compatriots and fellow citizens (Ghent, Belgium), better known as the remix machine SOULWAX, haven’t played a DJ set in just one place… on the moon (well, that’s what they told me.) And the number of songs/artists that got their bleep-bleep treatment are countless.
Next one: Britpop heroines of the year, WET LEG. The song the bros had their
hands on is the closer of the girl’s LP’s closing track, titled TOO LATE NOW.
Here’s the dizzying result.
Better not dance to it on
your kitchen table…
Last May British giga hypeWET LEG from the Isle of Wight confirmed their
press-given status of new guitar-pop Queens with their self-titled debut LP.
A sparkling collection of sickly addictive tunes with witty, absurd, and hilarious stories.
Of course, last weekend, they could not be missed at the iconic Glastonbury Festival.
Their vibed-up version of smoking singleChaise Longue (more than 24 million streams
on Spotify) is nothing less than STAGGERING, making the wild crowd go bananas.
Last month the top-notch Britpop hypeWET LEG from the Isle of Wight (UK) confirmed
their press-given status with their self-titled debut LP. A colorful collection of sickly addictive tunes with witty, absurd, and hilarious stories. Yes, Wet Leg rules (at least
this year).
Anyway, they were invited to stir things up on the British
long-running music TV show Later With Jools Holland.
Female art-pop duoWET LEG is one of the latest British hypes.
One that meets the expectations with flair and pizzazz. A couple of
weeks ago their stellar self-titled debut LP landed and convinced
the few doubters left.
This weekend they were guests on Jools Holland’s TV Show.
To hell with blue Mondays, here comes Rhian and Hester‘s mum…
Band: WET LEG Who: Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers
from England’s Isle Of Wight.
Rhian Teasdale: “Wet Leg is sad music for party people, and party music
for sad people. It is cathartic and joyful and punk and scuzzy and above all,
it’s fun. Wet Leg was originally just supposed to be funny. As a woman, there’s
so much put on you, in that your only value is how pretty or cool you look. But
we want to be goofy and a little bit rude. We want to write songs that people
can dance to. And we want to people to have a good time, even if that might
not possible all of the time.”
New album: WET LEG – self-titled debut LP Released: 8 April 2022 – order info here
The Telegraph (British newspaper): “It is an absolute blast, a crunchy, punchy, smart, deliciously goofy charge through new wave pop rock. It bursts with earworm hooks, snappy choruses and the delightful sense that the duo at its heart are having such a hoot they don’t really care what anyone else thinks. “ Score: 4/5.
Turn Up The Volume: These ladies’ pop vision is refreshing and most welcome in these grim times. Expect twist and turn tunes, hilarious deadpan stories, and some drop-dead-cool attitude. As the ladies say themselves we’re ‘goofy and rude‘. Hurrah!
Key/singles:Too Late Now / Oh No / Wet Dream / Chaise Longue
– CHAISE LONGUE –
(More than 2 million views on YouTube)
Female pop-duo WET LEG is definitely the British pop hype/sensation of 2022.
Their much-anticipated self-titled debut longplayer comes out this Friday.
But first, they seduce us, once again, with another new piece (the 6th one)
off the album. Here comes the funny clip for UR MUM…
