Wet Leg’s Coachella news

Wet Leg used its Coachella set on April 12 to debut unreleased songs and tell fans its third album is already finished. (artthreat.net) The Isle of Wight band played 45 minutes on the Coachella Stage in Indio, California, during the festival’s first weekend. Fan-setlist records show a 4:45 p.m. start and an 11-song set that included “catch these fists,” “pillow talk,” “CPR” and “mangetout.” (artthreat.net) (setlist.fm) Coachella’s official livestream ran April 10-12 and April 17-19 across seven stages on YouTube, with multiview and replay options for viewers outside the desert. International Business Times Australia reported that the 2026 stream drew millions of concurrent and on-demand viewers across two sold-out weekends. (coachella.com) (abcnews.com) (ibtimes.com.au) That timing puts Wet Leg’s album update in front of a much larger audience than a normal festival field. A band can test unreleased songs at Coachella and have clips, replays and social posts circulating worldwide within hours. (coachella.com) (ibtimes.com.au) The group had already hinted that album three was done months earlier. NME reported in November 2025 that frontwoman Rhian Teasdale said the record was “done” in an interview with Radio X, so the Coachella moment worked as a public confirmation on a bigger stage. (nme.com) (artthreat.net) Wet Leg is moving quickly by recent album-cycle standards. Its second album, *moisturizer*, came out on July 11, 2025, less than a year before the Coachella performance. (wetleg.bandcamp.com) (dominomusic.com) The band also arrived at Coachella with a live lineup that now functions as a full five-piece: Rhian Teasdale, Hester Chambers, Josh Mobaraki, Ellis Durand and Henry Holmes. Domino and Billboard both described *moisturizer* as the record that formalized that broader lineup. (dominomusic.com) (billboard.com) Setlist records show Wet Leg returned for Coachella’s second weekend on April 19 with the same 4:45 p.m. slot and the same 11-song sequence. That gave the band two festival weekends, one global stream and a ready-made runway for whatever comes next. (setlist.fm)