Wet Leg

Wet Leg have covered the song 'Smoko' by Australian punks The Chats, which they called "nerve-wracking" – watch it here.

Wet Leg perform today, while The Chats will play tomorrow. Are we allowed to say shitting bricks? Seriously,” Chambers said (somewhat tentatively).

Hester from the UK's Wet Leg is truly and distinctly delightful. Since becoming the most talked about band in guitar music, Hester Chambers and the other half ...

Maybe you had a bad day, or a bad dream and it sticks with you and makes you feel off all day and that makes it hard to perform, but then we in the band give each other a lot of comfort and support. When we wrote ‘Chaise Longue’, we were at Joshua’s house and it was really late in the evening and we just decided to write a really fun, dumb song to pass the time and be silly. The beer and the cucumber. The yin and the yang. We recently got to spend some time at home, the longest time at home in six months, and it was really nice. We are just all of a sudden busier than we ever have been, taking it day by day as it comes, because my heart is already beating faster thinking about it, so I just have a cup of tea and do a bit of crochet and that’ll help me to feel that everything is nice and normal.

Wet Leg stopped by triple j while on their Australian tour to take on Like A Version, performing a cool cover of The Chats' hit 'Smoko'.

Wet Leg turned The Chat’s thrilling pub rock classic into a woozy and hip synthwave track, really putting their own spin on it. “It’s a really, really cool song that you showed me a few years ago,” the band’s Hester Chambers said about their choice of cover. Wet Leg stopped by triple j while on their Australian tour to take on Like A Version, performing a cool cover of The Chats’ hit ‘Smoko’.

Wet Leg have done a “Like A Version” session for Australian radio station triple j where they have covered “Smoko,” a song by Aussie band The Chats, ...

November 4th – Trix, Antwerp Then the band shared a “Live on the Porch” session featuring them performing five songs from the album in their native Isle of Wight. “Angelica” also made our Songs of the Week list. Wet Leg features the songs “Chaise Longue” (which was one of our Songs of the Week), “Wet Dream,” which topped our Songs of the Week list, “Oh No,” and “Too Late Now,” the latter of which also topped our Songs of the Week list. In May, Wet Leg performed two songs (“Wet Dream” and “Ur Mom”) on the BBC music show Later… with Jools Holland. The Chats’ “Smoko” originally came out in 2017 (watch the video for their version below). The punk band are releasing a new album, GET FUCKED, on August 19 via Bargain Bin Records.