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IVH: 2023 BRIT Awards: Best New Artist and Group of the Year [1]
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Date: 2023-03-09
Wet Leg
Tonight’s songs from UK phenoms Wet Leg’s self-titled debut album. In late 2021 the band released a couple of very well received singles. In 2022, the full length was released. On the strength of that album, the band won two BRIT awards and two GRAMMY awards. Looking forward to whatever comes next!
On Saturday night at The Brits Awards 2023, Wet Leg picked up their first ever BRITs for Best New Artist and Group of the Year. The band also performed their massive debut single “Chaise Longue” at the ceremony backed by the all-female Morris dancing collective Boss Morris and surrounded by dancing beasts and bushes. With creative direction by Lava La Rue, The O2 was transformed into a wild and pagan land. Last weekend, Wet Leg also scooped two GRAMMYs at the 65th Annual GRAMMY Awards in Los Angeles for Best Alternative Album for their self-titled debut and Best Alternative Music Performance for “Chaise Longue”. — Domino Music
Wet Dream [2022]
This is the sardonic, English charm of Wet Leg — a band who’s captured the attention of everyone from Iggy Pop to Dave Grohl to Michael Gandolfini. With singles like “Chaise Longue” and “Wet Dream” that drip in post-punk riffs and witty, sexual innuendos, they’ve gone from unknowns to highly anticipated debut artists in a matter of weeks. And they’re just as surprised as you are. [Rhian] Teasdale and [Hester] Chambers met at the Isle of Wight College, where both were studying the music industry in preparation for their BTEC, an extended diploma in the performing arts. “We didn’t really hang out tons when we first met,” Chambers says, turning to face Teasdale. “You were quite intimidating because you were very cool, and I was big-time in my shell.” It’s safe to say that both members of Wet Leg are pretty cool, which they did not set out to be when they formed. “When we started Wet Leg, there was a definite, solid decision that it wasn’t going to be a serious band,” Teasdale says, noting she didn’t even know how to play guitar when they began. “The aim of the game was just to have fun. It doesn’t matter if people are judging us. We’re just going to do it, because why the hell not? It took us so long to get to that point.” “It was scary for sure,” adds Chambers. “Being in [our] mid-twenties and getting older, you’re like, ‘Will people laugh at me? Is this allowed?’ But actually, it is, and you just have to do it.” — Rolling Stone
Ur Mum [2022]
Teasdale and Chambers are carpetbaggers in the ultimate carpetbagging genre: You can play Magic Eye with their speed-addled guitars, tilting the music this way and that to spot flagrant trace notes of the Breeders, Parquet Courts, Wire, Pulp, Pavement, MGMT, the Strokes, Courtney Barnett, Blur, Elastica and a billion more bands besides. But it’s a sound that endures endless retreads as long as the hooks are good. For years, that bubblegum melodic facility seemed to have deserted bands of this ilk. The 2004 British wave stopped wanting to make “music for girls to dance to” and got sophisticated (read: boring), and the space they left was quickly filled by lumpen “whoa-oh-oh” football terrace chanters. Wet Leg have hooks stuffed with bait—and beyond convincingly consolidating past eras of guitar pop, they ply an idiosyncratic line in wild-eyed choruses that unspool in run-on bursts of mania, building to terminal velocity, tripping on internal rhymes, and dragging you down with them. — Pitchfork
Chaise Longue [2021]
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Even from the outside, it’s been wild to watch Wet Leg go from this buzzy little band with a couple of singles everyone was talking about to a band that’s playing to huge festival crowds. What’s that journey been like for you? Hester Chambers: It’s really strange. I can’t really internalize it very well. I’m speechless. We didn’t even imagine, never even thought that any of this would happen. It’s really, really weird and cool when people are singing the words of Wet Leg songs, like, with us. Very strange and nice. Rhian Teasdale: It’s such a shock. But it’s kind of wholesome, because it’s me and Hester and the rest of our band, who we’ve known for, like, 12 years. We were at college together. And so we get to experience it all together and be like, “Imagine going back to when we’re at college: ‘Oh, in 12 years’ time, you’re all gonna be in a band together. You’re gonna play Glastonbury.’” — Rolling Stone
Too Late Now [2021]
Angelica [2022]
WHO’S TALKING TO WHO?
Jimmy Kimmel: Jon Favreau, Nicole Byer, Tove Lo (R 3/1/23)
Jimmy Fallon: Jenna Ortega, Hannah Waddingham, TWICE
Stephen Colbert: Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Steven Spielberg, John Williams
Seth Meyers: Adam Driver, Adam Brody, Urian Hackney
James Corden: Milo Ventimiglia, Madelyn Cline, Tim Young
Daily Show: Omar Epps, guest host Marlon Wayans
SPOILER WARNING
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