{"id":289968,"date":"2025-10-09T19:08:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/289968\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T19:08:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:08:22","slug":"wet-leg-delivers-a-knockout-blow-at-rowdy-dallas-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/289968\/","title":{"rendered":"Wet Leg Delivers a Knockout Blow at Rowdy Dallas Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWet Leg consists of layers of sound, sarcasm and style.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Andrew Sherman<\/p>\n

Wreathed in smoke and light, Rhian Teasdale dropped to her knees. Clutching an electric guitar, she unleashed a blood-curdling scream that rippled through the room, as the audience emitted its own harrowing howl in reply.<\/p>\n

The squalling climax of \u201cUr Mum\u201d was emblematic of the ferocity British rockers Wet Leg brought to a sold-out South Side Ballroom<\/a> every moment they were on stage Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Relentless, fully felt and intensely visceral in a way that made moments of the roughly 65-minute performance feel hallucinatory, it was an extraordinary showcase for one of the U.K.\u2019s more dazzling recent exports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old Teasdale, exuding the sort of effortless, magnetic rock star charisma too often dulled by the steady drip of 21st-century social media obligations, prowled the stage like a panther, often barely visible beneath the band\u2019s veil of retina-searing strobe lights and persistent fog.<\/p>\n

Her airy alto, which slips in and out of a sing-speak cadence, cut through the cloud like a buzzsaw, as her four bandmates \u2014 Hester Chambers, Henry Holmes, Josh Mobaraki and Ellis Durand \u2014 conjured a dynamic wall of sound as comfortable with delicacy as it was bombast.<\/p>\n

Wet Leg\u2019s return to Dallas for its first appearance here in three years was in service of the band\u2019s recently released sophomore album, Moisturizer , the ever-so-cheeky title of this current run of dates is \u201cMoistourizer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the evening\u2019s brevity (the total run time of the band\u2019s catalog to date is just 74 minutes), the Brit Award- and Grammy Award-winning Wet Leg illustrated it\u2019s already pivoting from the sharp, short and stinging salvos of its self-titled 2022 debut, exemplified by the non-sequitur-laced earworm \u201cChaise Longue,\u201d the band\u2019s giddy breakout hit, to something more vulnerable and more epic.<\/p>\n

Elastic enough to sing about ketamine-fueled violence (\u201cCatch These Fists\u201d) and the simple pleasure of wanting someone to grow old with (\u201cDon\u2019t Speak\u201d), Moisturizer suggests Wet Leg will endure beyond its initial flirtation with fame \u2014 there\u2019s an almost quaint durability to these songs that belie the attitudinal rock veneer.<\/p>\n

\"\"Wet Leg\u2019s Rhian Teasdale commanded the stage with sex appeal and raucous energy.<\/p>\n

Opening with Moisturizer\u2019s pummeling, rowdy \u201cFists,\u201d which featured Teasdale striking a bodybuilder\u2019s pose against a backdrop of stuttering strobe lights and the audience screaming in ecstasy, most of Wednesday\u2019s highlights were pulled from the new record, nearly all of which was played, save a couple of tracks.<\/p>\n

Sharp and Satirical<\/p>\n

\u201cDavina McCall\u201d preserves Wet Leg\u2019s razor-sharp satirical edge \u2014 \u201cI\u2019ll be your Shakira\/Whenever, wherever,\u201d Teasdale sings to her lover \u2014 while ramping up volume and density; the sweetly goofy sentiment lands like a piledriver.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, the raunchy, riveting \u201cPillow Talk\u201d exploded like a nervous breakdown, while \u201cToo Late Now,\u201d from Wet Leg\u2019s debut, felt like being trapped inside a car careening around hairpin turns as it picked up speed at a terrifying pace.<\/p>\n

The band didn\u2019t particularly have much to say to the adoring, capacity audience, which shouted back lyrics with gusto, phones held aloft to capture every moment. The boilerplate \u201cHow are you doing?\u201d and \u201cThanks for coming\u201d was pretty much the extent of it, save a few asides from Teasdale: \u201cIf you\u2019d be so kind as to sing along, the more the merrier, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n

Banter wasn\u2019t really necessary anyway. Wet Leg\u2019s exhilarating fusion of lyrical wit and instrumental muscle sets them apart from most contemporaries in such a way as to make you wonder why more bands don\u2019t try to infuse the spectacle with a little more substance. Striking a pose is easy; backing it up with songs that make you care is far more difficult.<\/p>\n

In other words, something offered beyond the sugar high of superficial rock stardom does make for a far more satisfying meal. Scream it from the rooftops.<\/p>\n

See more photos from the show:<\/p>\n

\"\"San Antonio\u2019s INOHA opened the night with the right amount of energy and excitement.<\/p>\n

\"\"London\u2019s Mary in the Junkyard played the middle slot and further set the tone with a blend
of grunge, dream-pop and raw emotion.<\/p>\n

\"\"Wet Leg\u2019s name was made up with a random emoji generator.<\/p>\n

\"\"Teasdale had the crowd in the palm of her hand all night.<\/p>\n

\"\"Wet Leg\u2019s female co-founders are from The Isle of Wight and formed the band at university.<\/p>\n

\"\"Teasdale and Chambers co-founded the band which was originally just a duo.<\/p>\n

\"\"Fans at South Side Ballroom to see Wet Leg.<\/p>\n

\"\"Hester Chambers is the musical foundation for the band.<\/p>\n

\"\" Formed in 2019, Wet Leg already has three Grammy Awards.<\/p>\n

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