Wet Leg Blows The Roof Off Of The Grammy Museum

On Monday, December 15th, the Grammy Museum welcomed three-time 2026 Grammy Award-nominated band Wet Leg to the Museum’s intimate 200-seat Clive Davis Theater for an evening celebrating and discussing their Best Alternative Music Performance nominated “mangetout,” their Best Alternative Music Album nominated “moisturizer,” and more, with a special live performance. Special guest singer, rapper, and also 2026 Grammy Award-nominee for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance with girl group HUNTR/X, Audrey Nuna (K-Pop Demon Hunters) moderated the panel discussion.

Nearly 15 minutes past the start time, Nuna stepped on stage and introduced Wet Leg members vocalist Rhian Teasdale and Joshua Mobaraki. Teasedale is wearing the same shirt she wore on stage at KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas on Saturday, December 13th. All three artists discussed their creative process and the emotions they felt earning their first Grammy nominations. Teasdale and Mobaraki discussed the band’s origins and how they have remained a DIY band with no commitments and no rules. “The only confines were, okay, we’ve got the house where we were staying booked from this day to this day,” said Teasdale, “we weren’t expected to write the album.”

Wet Leg is the three-time Grammy-winning English five-piece founded by friends Teasdale and Hester Chambers on the Isle of Wight in 2019. Their self-titled debut album, released in 2022 on renowned indie label Domino Records, rocketed the band to international success, hitting the No. 1 spot in the UK and Australia and earning them five Grammy nominations, including a Best New Artist nominee, and three UK BRIT Award nominations, as well as a place on the coveted Mercury Music Prize Shortlist for Best British Album.

International hit singles, including “Chaise Longue” and “Wet Dream”, earned them an immediate and loyal fanbase, including fellow musicians Harry Styles, Pearl Jam, and Robbie Williams, all of whom went on to cover the band’s songs. Wet Leg were named Breakthrough Artist of the Year at the Libera Awards and UK Independent Breakthrough Artist of the Year at the AIM Independent Music Awards, as well as taking home the esteemed Ivor Novello Award for Songwriters Of The Year 2023.

For their eagerly anticipated sophomore album, the Wet Leg live band of Ellis Durand, Henry Holmes, and Joshua Mobaraki became more involved in the songwriting process and the resulting album, moisturizer, saw them return to the top of the UK album charts. They were recently nominated for three more Grammy Awards, including Best Alternative Album and Best Alternative Performance, for their current single “mangetout”. On the topic of their creative process for the album, Mobaraki stated that they weren’t necessarily trying to recreate “six weeks of baking cookies and dancing and making silly songs,” which is how the first Wet Leg songs came about, but they wanted a process with no rules, no restrictions, and simply allowed their creativity to flow freely. The group rented a house in the countryside for four weeks to write the record.

Teasdale elaborated that the band never has an exact object for the theme of their albums or their songs. It wasn’t until she and Chambers had written a few songs that they realized they were writing love songs. Teasdale mentioned that having recently discovered her queerness at the age of 29, when she met her current partner, inspired her songwriting. “You know, it’s such a cliche to say that like writing is cathartic, but there was like a catharsis in writing about this new way to love that I had found,” stated Teasdale.

The vocalist also stated that she thinks the band does not collaborate so much lyrically, but found that Chambers and she managed to create two sister songs on the album at the same time, “davina” and “don’t speak.” Both songwriters would ask each other if the love lyrics “were too much,” and both simply loved each other’s lyrics.

Towards the end of the panel, Nuna mentioned a funny coincidence. She had read that Wet Leg fans have shown up to their concerts with lobster hands in honor of one of their visuals, and Nuna herself was planning to dress up as a lobster for Halloween. The pop artist then took out the latex lobster hands she had planned to wear during the discussion and put one on.

Following the 40-minute discussion, all Wet Leg members took the stage and shook the Clive Davis Theater. Without hesitation, the group immediately hit the first note of “catch these fists,” making everyone jump up from their seats and rock out. The walls seemed as though they were shaking with the power driven behind every beat. The band performed four songs: “catch these fists,” “davina mccall,” “CPR,” and closed out with their Grammy-nominated song “mangetout.”

Wet Leg is set to embark on a UK and European tour in 2026. For more information, visit here.