The recipe for writing a Grammy Award-winning song that’s been streamed millions of times around the world is not overly tricky, say Wet Leg’s Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers.

“We were high on cookies. Normal regular cookies,” says Teasdale, who penned the indie rock band’s single Chaise Longue while reclining at her bandmate’s house on the Isle of Wight in 2019.

“We went through a phase of baking the same batch of cookies. Some had sad chocolate chip faces and some had happy chocolate chip faces, so we were fuelled by cookies.”

Earlier this month, Wet Leg won the 2023 Grammy for best alternative music performance for their hit Chaise Longue as well as the award for best alternative album for their self-titled debut. A week later at the Brit Awards, where they also performed Chaise Longue, the band won awards for best alternative album and best new artist.

After celebrating at London’s Moth Club, they jetted off to join Harry Styles’ concert series, Love On Tour, in Japan the next day. This week they’re opening for the former One Direction star in his Melbourne stadium shows.

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“We bumped into Amy from Amyl and the Sniffers at the Grammys,” Teasdale said. “She seems really nice, and they’re a really cool band. It was so mad we’d even been nominated, and really cool to go. You see pictures of the Grammys on the internet, and it seems really far removed from our reality and our world.

“Our world is kind of indie rock music ... and you don’t really get that kind of genre frequenting the Grammys. So, it was very strange and very unexpected to win anything.”

Chambers said growing up on the Isle of Wight, removed from the United Kingdom’s festival circuit, meant having a do-it-yourself attitude towards music. “You have to make your own music, to entertain yourself and your friends,” she said.