위댄스 Wedance

Wedance. It’s a statement and a warning. The duo spend a great majority of their time on stage living up to the name. Often wearing outfits that might be described, with the greatest amount of love possible, as retirement-community-inspired, Wedance, is a singularly difficult band to describe.

The duo met during a chance encounter on the street with Webo noticing Wegi’s unique fashion sense, recognising a kindred spirit and demanding he start a band with her. With songs about everyday life, a penchant for banging on a single cymbal in between dance breaks, dissonant vocals and guitars, it’s hard to talk about this band without any musically-seasoned listener narrowing their eyes skeptically and possibly thinking they didn’t know you as well as they thought they did. But against all odds, these features come together to form a glorious confluence of a-tonal, spasmodic pop bliss that can feel at once anthemic and, of course, make you move in whatever weirdo way these unique compositions compel you. Their music plays like a pied piper anthem of indie strangeness, beckoning all to join in on the alt-bacchanal.

There’s not enough proudly odd stuff in this world, and so a Wedance set seems to speak to that feeling and acts then as a challenge and invitation; Wedance, do you? Certainly many of their avid fans, many of whom are rabid devotees to the weirdness Wedance conjures, have answered their call.