Wet Leg Gets the Joke
SOMETIMES EVEN THE MOST-talked-about indie rock acts need to decompress. Take, for instance, the British duo Wet Leg—Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers—currently on the second leg of a tour in America.
“Me and Hester did yoga the other day,” Teasdale tells Newsweek, laughing. “The bus expands on the front lounge, so there’s enough room to do like a YouTube yoga session diagonally.”
In a span of less than a year, the duo from the Isle of Wight have generated tremendous buzz from their singles—most notably the extremely catchy disco/punk/New Wave number “Chaise Longue,” which has garnered over 11 million streams so far on Spotify. The attention brought Wet Leg widespread press coverage, sold-out shows, and American TV appearances on Late Night With Seth Meyers and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
“You just kind of have to take it
