Tag: Wet Leg

The Curious Case Of The Band ‘Wet Leg’

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Wet Leg is pretty much the type of pop rock music that I grew up with. Or, at least, it’s what used to be called pop rock before pop and rock went their separate ways for good.

I guess it would be call “alternative” today.

Anyway, it’s great music. And, yet, as always, there are complications. Young people apparently HATE that old people like me dig the band. This is yet another example of how I fucking hate being old — if I make a lot of money from my novel (ha!) I’ll be so fucking old by the time it hits my bank account that young people will push me out of the venue if I try to see Wet Leg in concert live.

Man, do I hate being old. I hate it so fucking much. And I’m not even that old. But the world revolves around 24 year olds, and I’m definitely NOT that age. I guess I can find some solace in the idea that maybe the Singularity will happen, we’ll all live to be 500 and I can start from scratch as a spry 50something.

Has Fame Gone To Rhian Teasdale?

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I’m a huge, huge fan of Wet Leg. I was taken aback by how glam Rhian Teasdale was in the latest live YouTube video the ban has done, “Smoko.” She comes across as Very Hot.

Rhian Teasdale

I just worry that she’s going to veer off into Being Famous with all the downside that entails.

But maybe I’m reading too much into very little information — something I’m known to do.

Anyway, I wish the best for her. She needs to go solo and be my favorite Punk Rock Girl. But that’s a realization she has to come to own her own. If she stays with Wet Leg, that’s fine.

Free Rhian Teasdale! 

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I love, love, love the band Wet Leg. But I have to note that I think one member of the duo —  Rhian Teasdale — is in her Sugar Cubes era. As you may know, Bjork was in a band called the Sugar Cubes before she went solo and made it big. It just seems to me that Ms. Teasdale has a lot of unlocked creative ability that would come to the fore if she either went solo or, even better yet, helped form an all-girl super group.

Rhian Teasdale 

Imagine if, say, for one album you could get Ms.  Teasdale to join forces with Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift and, I don’t know, maybe the drummer from Harry Style’s band? That would be so cool. It would be an opportunity for something really fun to happen for once.

But, alas, as I always say — no one listens to me. Even though when they do, usually cool shit happens.