I saw Wet Leg six months ago at Omeara. Playing to a room full of Industry. With only two singles released, the room’s reaction was a little muted. Tonight, as predicted back then, with a room full of people who knew their songs, the Electric Ballroom was bouncing.

In my review at the time, I said I would reserve judgement. The building blocks of a good band were there, but we needed to see how they progressed. Tonight, it is clear they are destined for success. Just two weeks after the release of their No. 1 album. Some people around me knew the words to most of their songs and early in the set, everyone was singing along to ‘Wet Dream’, as Rhian giggled with joy.

While Wet Leg are Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers. It was great to see they are developing as a band as a whole. Tonight it really was Wet Leg the band, with good chemistry on show and they all seemed to enjoy themselves and lots of smiles and encouraging nods between the band members and Hester and Rhian, generally larking about. They seem to have the right attitude, enjoy every moment of the adventure.

There was an interesting contrast that in some way explains Wet Leg’s winning formula. Support was from Honeyglaze who I think objectively have better and more sophisticated songs. Very much the clever indie that goes down well on 6Music but won’t get airplay elsewhere. Many in the audience talked through their whole set. What Wet Leg have done is create infectious songs that have a wry sense of humour and captures the irrelevance we all had up to our mid-20s before the realities of life hit us. They somehow have bottled it up in 3 minute long songs which seem both familiar and fresh. None of the songs overstay their welcome. They are all fun. So an oldie like me feels young again, while teenagers feel the songs are talking to them rather at them, It is incredibly rare that a band manages to do this.

As predicted, ‘Chaise Lounge’ caused the crowd to explode with joy. Everyone jumping up and down singing along to one of the most infectious songs in living memory. This band are going to go down a storm at festivals. I wonder if any festival will be brave and give them a top-of-the-bill slot because you know what? Even if they feel they aren’t ready, I think the crowd are ready to carry them there.

Set List

• Being in Love
• Convincing
• Wet Dream
• Supermarket
• Piece of Shit
• Too Late Now
• Obvious
• Oh No I Don’t Wanna Go Out
• Ur Mum
• It’s a Shame
• It’s Not Fun
• I Want to Be Abducted (By a UFO)
• Angelica
• Chaise Longue

Tonight’s sellout gig at Omeara had a whiff of Industry about it. It also had a lot of people who had a ‘fear of missing out’ on something new and special. Already their next gig is at Koko. So it’s clear they are on a stratospheric rise. Like many, I wanted to see them before they played a big stage.

Opening the evening were Porij. Really not my type of music. Kind of like kids discovering their parents 90s dance music and creating a more sophisticated version that could be played live. It didn’t appeal to me back then. No reason for it to start to appeal now. Drummer though did are great job of pounding out the beats.

Wet Leg appeared on stage full of smiles. Clearly enjoying their first steps into unexpected fame and seeing their first (sell-out) headline London show as the slightly surreal event it is. There’s no denying playing a venue they could have sold out several times over, they are going to be big.

So are they worth the hype? In all honesty, it’s hard to say. The two songs they have out are absolute hits. They are catchy with a wry sense of humour. They don’t overstay their welcome and aren’t trying to do anything other than being fun songs. And the audience loved them. I’m certain with a less FOMO crowd, the place would have been absolutely bouncing for those songs. I can see when they play Koko, the place will explode when Chaise Longue is played.

Tonight playing a full set for about 45 minutes. The other songs didn’t have the same hookability. But we were also hearing them for the first time. Maybe after a few more listens they will have a similar impact and while Rhian was really enjoying the evening, Hester seemed to be ill. From where I was stood, she seemed to be struggling at times and looked to me like she had a cold. The other band members seemed to show her an occasional sympathetic and concerned face. Maybe I’m wrong, but she didn’t look comfortable tonight.

So I’m going to be a coward and reserve judgement. The building blocks of a good band are there. While I wasn’t left with a feeling like I’d seen something special. By next summer, a band who don’t take themselves too seriously and have catchy songs, almost certainly with a successful SXSW under their belt, will undoubtedly have festival on both sides of the Atlantic bouncing. That’s not a bad future to look forward to.