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She also explained that it doesn't take a "virtuoso guitarist to enjoy playing music"
Wet Leg vocalist Rhian Teasdale has revealed that she was once “kicked out” of her GCSE music class while she was still at school.
Although she is now the frontwoman of one of the UK's biggest indie bands, Teasdale admitted that her relationship with music was very different during her school years in a recent interview.
Speaking to The Cut, she said: “It’s been a bit of a journey demystifying music making for myself. I’m not from a musical household, and I even got kicked out of my GCSE music course because I was too far behind the rest of the class, which is kind of hilarious.”
She continued: “There are so many loser gatekeepers who want you to believe that you need 20 plus chords in a song for it to be worthy. In reality there are so many bangin’ songs that literally are just two chords.”
Wet Leg live at Glastonbury. Credit: Andy Ford for NME
Even so, Teasdale said that making music is far more accessible than many people believe.
“The first song I ever tried to play on guitar was ‘Molly’s Chambers’ by Kings Of Leon. Back when the band was super trashy and fun. It was a real epiphany to learn that you don’t have to be a virtuoso guitarist to enjoy playing music with your friends,” she said.
After leaving her GCSE music course, Teasdale also told NME in 2022 that she had “always wanted to do music for a living, but it was making me really sad.”
She continued: “Then I found this job [as a stylist] that I was doing before [we got signed] and I realised my day to day happiness had gone way up.”
Teasdale also explained to NME in 2025 that, despite headlining major shows and securing huge festival appearances, she still finds the band's success surprising. She admitted she originally questioned whether their early breakthrough would continue.
“It’s just crazy to see your band’s name next to legitimate artists who’ve been in the industry for a long time and who’ve maybe inspired you to make music,” she said.
“We were very much prepared for, ‘The first album was just this mad, freak incident.’ We weren’t really expecting that for album two, so it’s just really nice.”
At the end of last year, Wet Leg’s second album, ‘Moisturizer’, was ranked at Number 22 on NME’s list of the best albums of 2025.
Awarding the album four stars, NME wrote: “After the whirlwind that was Wet Leg’s debut album, it would have been easy for the band to capitulate under the pressure or just play it safe and remake that record.”
Back in November 2025, the group also revealed that work on their third studio album had already been completed.
Elsewhere, Wet Leg recently released a new remix of ‘CPR’ by HorsegiirL.
