Wet Leg performing their Moisturizer Tour at Rock City Nottingham on Monday 17th November 2025.

Images and Review by Kevin Cooper

Wet Leg were at Rock City on Monday night to celebrate the release of their second album, Moisturizer, and there was a change to the line-up from the last time that they played Nottingham.

They were initially touted as a female fronted duo led by Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers but the latter’s crippling anxiety means that she is more comfortable playing at the back of the stage, leaving Teasdale to command the centre. Flanked by new band members bassist Ellis Durand, drummer Henry Holmes and guitarist Josh Mobaraki, Teasdale is fast becoming one of the most imposing front people of her age.

With a mighty nineteen songs in the set most of their self titled debut album and Moisturizer were played as they opened with new song Catch These Fists which set the pace and didn’t let up. And with enough dynamics within the set for Teasdale’s vocal range to shine, they quickly followed up with the immense Wet Dream, Oh No and Supermarket that had the sold out crowd singing along.

New song Davina McCall went down a treat whilst Pillow Talk, probably the heaviest sex song released this year, sounded particularly beefy. Other new tracks such as Pond Song and Don’t Speak are instant crowd pleasers and showed just how adept Wet Leg are at crafting songs that are capable of seeping into musical consciousness, becoming instant classics and undeniable earworms.

The closing quartet of Angelica, Chaise Longue, CPR and Mangetout showed the promise of this still relatively new band who have pulled off something no other UK band has in the last decade having cracked America, won Brits and Grammys, been covered by Robbie Williams and Harry styles and have a fan base that has crossed the generations.

Having whipped up the crowd into a furore with their short spikey songs, and if their apparently already completed third album maintains their high standards, it could push Wet Leg supersonic with larger venues beckoning.

Wet Leg performing at Rock City Nottingham on Friday 25th November 2022

Images and Review by Kevin Cooper

The Isle of Wight duo of Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers, better known as Wet Leg, sold out Rock City on Friday night, despite there being a very important football match being played in the World Cup.

Now a household name they are a band addictively easy to love or equally as easy to hate for their overnight success. Their self titled debut album has catapulted them to dizzying heights, taking them to the top of the UK album charts, with five Grammy Award nominations, a pre-recorded performance on The Jonathan Ross Show and a support slot for Harry Styles’ stadium tour of Australia and New Zealand next year.

So the excitement was palpable as lead vocalist Teasdale and guitarist Chambers bounced on to the stage with unbridled enthusiasm and after the intro it was straight into their album’s dreamy opener Being In Love which was followed up with their second single, the funky Wet Dreams that was played with wonderful vigour.

Wet Leg have won over their many fans because of Teasdale’s lyrics which resonated with this crowd. This is evident on tracks like Supermarket, Too Late Now and the slower non-album song, the hauntingly Obvious, but they truly come into their own with their rockier approach on quirky fans favourites, Oh No and Ur Mum which saw Teasdale lean over the barrier and scream at some startled, but delighted fans.

They end a fifty minute set with Angelica and their signature song Chaise Longue before they leave the stage without saying a word. There is no encore and there has been very little between song chatter, but what they brought to Rock City was sheer excitement, their charismatic charm and the ability to show that they are a standalone phenomenon who are going places. They just need to find the time to work on that second album.

As for those fans who watched the football before catching the last thirty minutes of Wet Leg’s set, then there is no doubting who got the better deal.