It’s really fun when people are crowd surfing, but it’s not fun to play in rehearsals anymore. Because we know it so well. So when we’re rehearsing our set, we’re usually pretty silly by the end of it. We’re just like, “On the cheese log, there’s a big frog, I’m a bad dog” — making it entertaining for ourselves.
Your songs can be very funny. Some bands pull back on that because they somehow think it interferes with being taken seriously. Was that ever a topic of discussion?] Like, at the end of the day, regardless of what we write, we called our band Wet Leg for a reason.You can be as serious or as unserious as you like, at any point, I guess. That’s the thing with music. There’s not many rules.When we were writing the songs, that was just what came out, more or less.
When we first started, I played kind of folky piano and Hester was playing more finger-picky guitar. I listened to the Strokes, Kings of Leon, and I never saw that for myself — it’s quite male-dominated. There weren’t many girls in guitar bands in our community. But Hester and I still listened to it, and went to festivals, and really enjoyed the shows. And we were like, “Why don’t we do that? We could take up that space. We could start a band. We could play guitar.
There’s a weird thing where, I guess because of your rapid rise, people love to call you an “industry plant,” whatever that’s supposed to mean. And you’ve cleverly poked back at the idea online.If you’re a guy in a band, I don’t think you get it as much, I’ll say that. When it comes down to it, it’s just misogyny, isn’t it? And yeah, if people are gonna troll us, then I’m definitely gonna troll them back.
It was reported recently that you’ve already finished your second album. I don’t know if you were just messing with an interviewer or . . . ?We did an interview with [U.K. radio station] Absolute Radio. The whole interview, we were giving each other banter. He was like, “Have you finished the album?” We were like, “Oh, yeah.” He was like, “What kind of album is it?” And we were like, “It’s death metal.” It was very obviously a joke.
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wetlegband Because of their rapid rise, many have called wetlegband an “industry plant.” They say it’s rooted in misogyny: