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Sunday, December 14, 2025

Wet Leg 1.0 is back!!!! (and the Lyon concert)

The Green Man Concert

Wet Leg just did the most amazing, fantabulous concert at Green Man a week ago!! Probably their best concert yet with the material from their new album, Moisturizer. Check it out.

And Glory Be, its back to the good old days of Wet Leg 1.0. Rhian smiles, not once, not twice, BUT RIGHT THROUGH THE CONCERT!!!! Even while singing, like in the good old days (all those years ago in 2023). Even Hester smiles and speaks to the audience. No more Scowls and Rock Diva acts. Just the two sweet, funny, good-natured girls whom we all fell in love with in 2023.

Is this a one-off? Maybe because they were in a very small auditorium with a small crowd? It is difficult to pull off the Rock Diva act in front of a small audience. Anyway, let us hope it stays this way...

The Lyon Concert

By contrast, just last month in October, I attended the Wet Leg concert in Lyon. It was Wet Leg 2.0 on steroids. They were on a rampage. It was mind-blowing. The sound and light thundered and roared over the audience like a Tsunami. Rhian was lithe and deadly like a dervish of death. Holmes drummed like a maniac. The bass thudded. The heart thudded in tune. The pulse raced. It took me two days to recover from it, no kidding. I was in the front row, right in the middle, right in front of Rhian. I got the effect full in the face.

Here is the closing song, Mangetout. This video does not capture even 1% of what it was like to be there, but hopefully you will get some idea:

My mind was *literally* blown at the end of it. I had to wait for other people to move away to pick up my scattered neurons off the floor. Yes, it was an awe-inspiring performance. But honestly, given a choice, I would still have preferred to be at the homely, low key Green Man concert. Although we are all slowly getting used to the new angry, hard-rocking avatar of Wet Leg (or Wet Leg 2.0, as I like to call it), I think we all yearn for charming, funny, laid-back Wet Leg of the post-COVID times, that came like sunshine into that bleak period and made all the horrors go away.

Anyway, coming back to the Lyon concert, here are a couple of other videos I made. Most of the time, my phone was firmly in my pocket, as I burned every moment into my retina. All said and done, the new avatar of Wet Leg is just as compelling as the old one, in its own way.

This is where they entered the stage and played Catch Theses Fist, up to the first stanza. After that, I switched off the camera to better enjoy the concert. Sorry, dudes.

This is a souped-up, hard-rock version of Chaise Longue they played somewhere in the middle. Nothing like the old version!

In this video, in the middle of the concert, Rhian chats with the audience and then they play a roughed-up punk version of Supermarket. All of the old songs they played in this gig got the same kick in the fanny!

This is Davina McCall. Very slow and dreamy for a change.

I started off filming this video in Landscape, and halfway through changed my mind and moved to Portrait. SORRY DUDES 😒 Just turn your phones around, OK? Or if watching on the PC, bend your neck sideways. 😂

Here is the set list. This is the one Rhian was using. The guitar symbol marks the songs where Rhian plays the guitar, along with the chord sequence. I guess she is still a bit uncomfortable with the guitar (she is by training a pianist).