The Isle of Wight band prove that they are one of the most refreshing new voices in indie in a thrilling showcase of their debut album.
As Teasdale hits the song’s bridge, she throws her head back, and erupts into a deep, powerful shriek; the audience before her joins in, sending a wave of catharsis across the festival site below us. Teasdale and Chambers have a shared and endearing habit of embracing both their jokes and mistakes. “This is so crazy that maybe we’re all on another planet right now,” says vocalist Rhian Teasdale, before she and her bandmate Hester Chambers launch into unreleased track ‘I Want to Be Abducted (By a UFO)’. “Maybe we’ve all been abducted?”
Wet Leg's first-ever apperance at Glastonbury gives Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers the chance to showcase their eponymous album in style.
Inevitable outings of the superb single Chaise Longue and Beam Me Up before it mark Wet Leg as a significant duo on the rise and rise, with their debut set going about as well as it could for a band coasting through recent success. The Isle of Wight-based indie rock band took to The Park Stage with the same confidence and creativity exhibited on their self-titled debut album. Filled to the brim with debut performances, Glastonbury ‘22 marks a first-time appearance for Wet Leg, who stormed The Park Stage with some incredible tracks from their debut album.
If their singles signify a modernist revival of febrile 2000s alt-pop – “Chaise Longue” and “Wet Dream” in particular sound like the product of an AI writing “ ...
Twitter tells this gargantuan crowd that they’re frolicking around in Waltons dresses, but for all that most of us can see or hear they could be playing the whole set in a paddling pool full of custard with Harry Styles on bongos. It’s clearly indie pop’s turn back at the helm of the zeitgeist, and it isn’t hard to see why. And the spiteful “Ur Mum” could be a chant-along from Glastonbury’s peak Britpop years, ricocheting along like Damon Albarn and Justine Frischmann were still mid-breakup.
Wet Leg fans will be pleased to hear that the BBC's coverage of Glastonbury Festival features a snippet from Wet Leg's Wet Dream single as the sting (this is ...