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ON THE CHAISE LONGUE WITH WET LEG

This has been Wet Leg’s year. The Isle of Wight band’s smart takes on modern life and modern love over a super-fresh melodic guitar racket on songs like Angelica, Wet Dream and Chaise Longue soundtracked summers and made them indie stars.

We meet Wet Leg in their dressing room at the Kentish Town Forum in London. They are playing two nights at this fine 2,300-capacity venue as part of their final UK and Ireland tour of a very busy 2022, before heading to Nashville to kick off another US jaunt.

The dressing room, up approximately 17 flights of stairs, is more luxurious than some. And the food looks surprisingly healthy. “Oh my god, there’s broccoli on the rider,” says a delighted Rhian Teasdale (left of main pic). After

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