• 2019-

  Rhian TeasdaleVocals, rhythm guitar2019-

  Hester ChambersLead guitar2019-

  Henry HolmesDrums2025-

  Josh MobarakiRhythm guitar, synthesizer2025-

  Ellis DurandBass2025-
• Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers first met at the Isle of Wight College. They were friends for 10 years before forming a band in summer 2019 after watching Idles at the End Of The Road festival. "We agreed on the premise of our band there and then: as long as you're having fun, then everything will be alright," Teasdale told NME. "And we've told ourselves that we'll stick to that, always."
• Wet Leg named themselves after random emojis. "We were playing a sort of game where we'd make band names out of different emoji combinations," Teasdale told News On The Wight. "Then we got to wet leg and it just kind of stuck."
• Teasdale and Chambers assembled a touring band with fellow Isle of Wight musicians and released their debut single "Chaise Longue" after signing with Domino Recording Company (Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, Hot Chip).
• Before forming Wet Leg, Chambers made a name for herself making jewelry on the Isle of Wight. Teasdale worked as a stylist, including doing the wardrobe for Slowthai's "Feel Away" video.
• Following the success of their debut Wet Leg album, Hester Chambers and Rhian Teasdale won Songwriters Of The Year at the 2023 Ivor Novello Awards. The judging panel described their style as "fresh, unapologetic and direct, with surprising melodies that demand attention."
• In their early days, Wet Leg only had 36 minutes of material but were booked for hour-long sets. To fill the gaps, they played unreleased songs like "Obvious," tossed in a few covers, and padded things out with "lots of bad stage chat." They now joke about how surreal it was to ramble on awkwardly in front of huge crowds just to stretch time.

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