ROX-TV takes a look at Britain’s Indie Rock Band Wet Leg. The group is currently on tour and on the move.
Welcome back to the ROX-TV website. We appreciate all the returning readers and also welcome the first timers to the site. We enjoy reporting on music, the arts, and just about anything that catches our attention. Tonight I’d like to briefly talk about a group that I just got hip to by way of accident. The group is called “Wet Leg” and they hail from the British Isle of Wight. If you’re unfamiliar apparently the Island is England’s largest island, the 2nd most populous, and also a county. You can find this place in the English channel.
So anyway, I’m not really a radio person anymore. As far as I’m concerned my radio days pretty much ended when the content went to shit, was over saturated by special interests, and play lists were brought. Money over talent type shit. YouTube was also another factor in killing off my interest in the radio. Once YouTube rolled into town two things happened in my life.
First off, I never purchased another CD or Cassette again unless I really supported the group or artist. The second thing was that I stopped listening to the radio. YouTube was like a God send back in the day. No longer did I have to get ripped off by the record companies to enjoy a one hit wonder band, or a celebrated band for that matter. I’ve always been a collector and that will never change, hard copies are the best. I just didn’t have to pay too much for one song after I got hip to YouTube.
The radio has always been a crap shoot, going back to the early eighties (for me anyway). You had to listen to the shit all day long to hear the song you wanted to hear. If it wasn’t backed by money or a major label, you were not going to hear the tune ever. Beyond that, the commercials and paid advertisements were over the top. You had to put up with a lot of shit to hear decent music. In my own opinion though, the best shit was never played on the radio anyway, and that goes for MTV too, kingmakers on channel 34 (MTV) and that’s just the way it was.
Anyway, I’m driving in the car and I don’t normally play the radio, but I was tired and didn’t really give a shit. As I was cruising down the highway, I was scanning the airwaves like the old days…seek, seek, seek. Looking for something that didn’t suck. My hopes were low until it happened. I flipped the seek button for the twenty fifth time when I heard it.
A driving beat, a sexy but subdued voice singing about college and other things, and a sound that was instantly addictive. The tune slapped me in the face and my ears woke up immediately. “What the fuck is this?” I asked myself as I quickly looked down at the front face plate of the radio. “Wet Leg” was the name of the band and I was so turned on by the song, that I quickly took a picture of the radio face, as not to lose or forget the song. There is nothing worse than really enjoying a song and one day you can’t remember the band name or the song name, although the chorus is stuck in your head to tease you.
It’s happened to me many times over the years and it won’t happen ever again. I got out my phone and saved it for all time. The song was called “Chaise Longue” and I thought the sound was amazing. It’s been awhile since a tune really grabbed my attention.
The actual drop date was back on June 15th, 2021 but I missed it at the time. I was dropping “Forever in the Jects” and had little time to cruise the YouTube universe for new music. I would never had found it anyway. I wasn’t listening to the radio and my scrolling YouTube days were on pause.
The group is made of Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers. I guess the story goes that they met at college (Isle of Wight College) and became friends. After a decade of chumming around the Isle, the duo formed “Wet Leg” in 2019 and were signed to “Domino Recording Company”. The track “Chaise Longue” was the debut single for the group and since then, they have released three others.
The group is dropping a self-titled album on April 8th, 2022 and I can’t wait to hear it. Their music is interesting to me and I enjoy the sounds. The videos are simple but striking in a way that leaves the viewer wanting more. I expect big things from this group if they can continue on releasing relevant music. From what I’ve seen so far, it shouldn’t be a problem.
Signing Off,
Mike Shepard
ROX-TV Head Writer
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