Wet Leg at Trinity 21/04/2022

It was second time lucky for the crazy girls from down south. But Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers, who probably shouldn’t be let out in public, were permitted to push it just that little bit too far for admiring fans in Bristol last night. Wet Leg are the country’s 2021 sensation, with the fun sound of Chaise Longue giving them headline acts and radio plays last summer, complemented with a splattering of fake shy, drunk/high media interviews. Only a band this loved could get away with being spaced out on Jo Whiley’s show. And only Wet Leg could pull out of their billing in February (at the Louisiana, as part of BBC Radio 6 Music’s Independent Venue Week) only for everyone to shift dates to a new venue on 21st April, packing out the Trinity Centre and pushing Burst Radio off the press list (… not that we could’ve gone anyway, it being the Easter holiday).

Speaking to Xander Brett on Sunday on 27th February, 6 Music host Steve Lamacq said that after Wet Leg pulled out, he spent the day rolodexing bands to find a replacement. “I’d just been told our listener figures were up,” he explained, “when, as I was making a celebratory cup of tea, I got a message saying the girls had pulled out.” Thankfully, phone calls later, Brighton band Penelope Isles agreed to step in, bundling into a bus to fill the live music segment. The programme (broadcast on Thursday 3rd February 2022, with highlights on Burst the following evening) also featured a city tour from local singer Grove, while Geoff Barrow of Portishead talked listeners through the best of Bristol’s record stores. As for Wet Leg… well, the shy silliness is working wonders in the new year too. But, no question, it’s still a hard slog not to fall into the one hit wonder club. Unless, of course, that would suit everyone just fine?

Written by The Burst News Team