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When Matt Tong, Jojo Khor, Ed Riman and Helen Ganya started talking about forming a supergroup of sorts – they are members of Algiers (and ex-Bloc Party), GHUM, Hilang Child and a solo artist, respectively – one thing that eluded them was the name. They came together for the first time in 2023 via ESEA Music, a community-led non-profit dedicated to advancing the representation of ESEA professionals and artists across the UK music industry.
This new left-field British rock collective wanted a moniker that would represent the commonality of their differing backgrounds, with heritage across Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. The idea that the group would flout industry expectations and be porous in terms of members moving forward, with different people from the community joining and leaving as suited, also meant that they wanted the collective to have an umbrella of a name that wasn’t tied to any one of the current members individually. After months of back and forth, it was half-jokingly that Tong suggested Wet Market.
For a group of artists with East and South-east Asian (ESEA) roots, the name is very much a wry, confrontational reclamation. “It’s something provocative and tongue-in-cheek, in a nod to the Covid era and also yellow peril kind of vibes,” expands Khor, “I felt affiliated to that, because anti-Asian hate was one of the reasons why I wanted to connect with the ESEA community.”
This new left-field British rock collective wanted a moniker that would represent the commonality of their differing backgrounds, with heritage across Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. The idea that the group would flout industry expectations and be porous in terms of members moving forward, with different people from the community joining and leaving as suited, also meant that they wanted the collective to have an umbrella of a name that wasn’t tied to any one of the current members individually. After months of back and forth, it was half-jokingly that Tong suggested Wet Market.
For a group of artists with East and South-east Asian (ESEA) roots, the name is very much a wry, confrontational reclamation. “It’s something provocative and tongue-in-cheek, in a nod to the Covid era and also yellow peril kind of vibes,” expands Khor, “I felt affiliated to that, because anti-Asian hate was one of the reasons why I wanted to connect with the ESEA community.”
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