Wet Leg
Location: O2 Academy
Wet Leg are an indie rock group from the Isle of Wight. Coming to Glasgow’s O2 Academy on 23rd and 24th November 2025.
Wet Leg’s blend of dry wit and minimalist-punk riffs started off as a joke between Isle of Wight duo Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers. However, reality soon hit with their debut single ‘Chaise Longue’ becoming an overnight sensation and clocking up over seven million streams to date.
With the numbers initially seeming virtual, it took their set at last year’s Latitude Festival to make it all feel real. Being amongst other musicians and seeing the packed-out tent sing along with the witty, Mean Girls-loving track made Wet Leg finally see themselves as legitimate musicians
And it’s been a long time coming. Teasdale and Chambers met over a decade ago at college, but the idea to make music together came after a drunken ferris wheel ride at End Of The Road festival in 2019. Fun has always been the focus, so while drawing from 60s French Yé-yé movement, right through to Ty Segall’s garage-psych frenzies and Björk’s avant-garde pop, the excitement comes from their knack of telling a good story. The sharp-elbowed, self-titled stomper is the ultimate breakup track, crescendoing three-parter ‘Too Late Now’ documents the highs and lows of adulthood, and ‘Oh No’ makes light of the 3am doomscroll with its wiry yet driving melody.
The hype around the band was well deserved, with their debut album Wet Leg winning Best Alternative Music Album at the Grammy’s in 2023, while The Guardian noted that: “Wet Leg have certainly got people listening, and by channelling their sense of humour and showmanship into a series of tracks that are far more nuanced and three-dimensional than the infuriatingly repetitive song that made their name, they’ve ensured their debut album is well worth hearing – again and again and again.”
One of the world’s most in-demand bands
Wet Leg soon became one of the world’s most in-demand bands, as the pair joked on an Australian interview that a second album was a long way away because they had had no time to write. They soon joined Harry Styles on tour as support on his Love On Tour in 2023, before an onslaught of touring and festival appearances – including Coachella, where Dave Grohl joined them on stage for ‘Ur Mum’, plus a surprise slot at End of the Road, where their journey first begun.
After a period of silence, Wet Leg returned in March 2025 for a show in Brighton under the moniker Uma Thurman, where they debuted seven new songs. Shortly after, Wet Leg announced their second album, moisturizer, promising “brash guitars, heavy beats, and a fearless devotion to feeling everything—all at once.”
