Win Tickets ($92): Wet Leg w/ The Stupid Girls @ Crystal Ballroom | Dance-Punk
We are giving away a pair of tickets to Wet Leg w/ The Stupid Girls @ Crystal Ballroom on December 11. To win, comment below on this post why you’d like to attend. Winner will be drawn and emailed October 1.
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Wet Leg w/ The Stupid Girls
December 11, 2025
6:30pm doors, 8pm show | $46 | All Ages
Purchase Tickets: crystalballroompdx.com
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St, Portland, OR 97209
Wet Leg – the Isle of Wight five-piece founded by Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers – have announced their eagerly anticipated second album moisturizer ill be released on July 11 on Domino.
Alongside the album announcement, the band also share the first taste of moisturizer with its frenetic, alluringly combative lead single ‘catch these fists.’ Kicking things off with an untameable, electrified groove from its opening seconds, ‘catch these fists’ is dance-punk par excellence – bass notes ricocheting off a wall of howling synth, thunderous beats catching strays from Teasdale’s cruel deadpan.
The video, directed by the band and shot on the Isle of Wight, nods to Ti West, Cameron Crowe and their own ‘Wet Dream’ video and is a suitably off-kilter introduction to i>moisturizer valley. The band will return to The Tonight Showstage at 30 Rockefeller Center on Wednesday, to give the song its international television debut.
Touring with Ellis Durand (bass), Henry Holmes (drums), and Joshua Mobaraki(guitar, synth), Wet Leg developed into a taut, caustic live operation that made good on their debut’s success: #1 chart placements at home and abroad, three GRAMMYs, two BRIT Awards and over half a billion streams. If success presents a fork in the road for any new band – to ‘go pop’ or keep following your muse – Wet Leg emphatically chose the latter path – including working with Dan Carey again as their producer. In March 2024, the band decamped to the remote seaside town of Southwold in Norfolk, England, to write; living together, working all day, watching horror movies all night, they soon locked into a new sense of symbiosis. Subsequently, all five members of Wet Leg have writing credits on moisturizer – ‘We were just kind of having fun and exploring,’ says Hester Chambers. ‘We focused on: Is this going to be fun to play live? It was very natural that we would write the second record together’ adds Rhian Teasdale.
As happens a couple of times on moisturizer, the major animus behind ‘catch these fists’ was an interaction with a belligerent man, as chronicled in the song’s final verse. This is not to say shitty men are the sole focus of moisturizer – no matter how much album track ‘mangetout’, with its withering chorus of ‘get lost forever’ may feel like the Nicole Kidman divorce photo in song form. On the contrary, this is largely an album about being, as the band exclaim on ‘pond song’, so ‘DEEP! IN! LOVE!!!!’ moisturizer /strong> contains love songs of every stripe: stressed-out, gooey-eyed, gratuitously horny, blissed out, obsessive and mysterious.
Although Teasdale previously felt allergic to writing love songs, moisturizer is defined by its sheer exuberance and Teasdale ended up finding the process empowering. That new sense of ownership extends to moisturizer’s album art, an instant-classic freak-fest in which Chambers and Teasdale bare long, ghoulish claws; Teasdale, sporting long, kitschy socks and sans eyebrows, grins fiendishly into the camera. It reflects the album, moisturizer is the band turning the dial up and delivering a record that is unapologetically bolder, stronger and raunchier.
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I didnt get tickets before it sold out last they were here! Send me there!
Pick me! I own and operate a one woman(me) clothing alterations and repairing business. The overhead is killing me. I work 60 hours a week, early ever have extra money to go anywhere. I love live music. It recharges my spirit! Give a hard working woman a boost! I recently discovered Wet Leg and am loving them! Looking forward to the new album!
I’d love to win tix because I first heard of them on NPR when they were first making a name for themselves and have wanted to see them ever since. Sadly missed out on tickets the last time they came through but would love the chance to see them at the Crystal. 🙂
I promise to bring my best chaise longue dance moves if you let me in. (Fair warning: they are terrible, but very committed.) 💃💃💃
Love this band! Would love a date night out to see them!!
Would love to see them live! Two killer albums in a row!
Yes!!!! Their Coachella set was amazing I would be so excited to see them live!
Live music has always been my reset button—nothing compares to that energy. Wet Leg’s songs have been in my ears through so many ups and downs, and getting to experience them in person would be unforgettable.
My mom loves wetleg! She wants to see them so bad! When this show was announced she was jumping like a kid! The energy they bring is absolutely killer⚡️ Shes a hard workin woman who needs some music to charge the soul💗
I love Wet Leg! I was so bummed to see it sell out before I could snag tickets. Would love to go :’)
I would like to go because my best friend has never seen them, and they are her favorite band <3 Of course the show is sold out, and I would love to surprise her!
I’ll be in Portland on a work trip at that time and would LOVE to see them. I would happily buy tickets but they are sold out 😭. Wet Leg is one of my favorite bands!!!
I’d love to win these tickets because they are one of my favorite bands and i missed buying tickets!! D: i haven’t been to a concert since moving to Portland (1.5 years ago), and live music has always felt like home. it would be so lovely to go and experience that feeling <3 thank you so much for this opportunity!
If I don’t go how else am I going to buy a vinyl copy of Moisturizer and have them sign it?
Winning tocketsbwould be an awesome anniversary present! Yay Wet Leg!
I want to gift these tickets to a beautiful couple I know. They could really use a night out and these tickets would bring them much joy. Many, many thanks
I’d love to surprise my partner with tickets if I win! 😁 I love this band!
I’d love too see them live!
My first show at Crystal Ballroom was Presidents of the United States of America, with tickets I won from PDX Pipeline!
I would love to win these and see Wet Leg since the show is sold out!
Not to bring grief to the comment section, but my parter passed a month ago and I would like to attend for the both of us and cry a little in the crowd