The Joy Formidable's 2011 Concert History

The Joy Formidable is an indie rock band formed in 2007 in North Wales, United Kingdom, currently located in London, England. The group members are Ritzy Bryan (vocals, guitar), Rhydian Dafydd (bass, backing vocals), and Matt Thomas (drums). Their music has been described as "primal epic grunge rock à la The Breeders, Arcade Fire and Yeah Yeah Yeahs".

The Joy Formidable had 128 concerts in 2011 (Page 2)

Date Concert Venue Location
Nov 07, 2011
Foo Fighters / Social Distortion / The Joy Formidable / Luan Santana
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Infinite Energy Arena Duluth, Georgia, United States
Show Duplicates for Nov 07, 2011
Nov 05, 2011
Fun Fun Fun Fest
"Fun Fun Fun Fest" / Lykke Li / The Damned / Joe Lally / World Inferno Friendship Society / Keep Shelly in Athens / Tinariwen / Neon Indian / Spoon / Purity Ring / Girls / M83 / Ra Ra Riot / Tune-Yards / The Joy Formidable / Future Islands / Maneja Beto / Hot Snakes / Cave In / Negative Approach / Dead Horse / Paint It Black / Youth Brigade / Death Grips / Touché Amoré / Shapes Have Fangs / Dan Deacon / Thieves / Major Lazer / Rakim / Childish Gambino / Brandt Brauer Frick / T Bird and the Breaks / Cecil Otter / Captured by Robots / Ali Wong / Louis Katz / Michael LaCoure / Neal Brennan / Johnny Pemberton / Turquoise Jeep Show all bands
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Auditorium Shores Austin, Texas, United States
Nov 04, 2011 –
Nov 06, 2011
Fun Fun Fun Fest 2011
Spoon / Passion Pit / Lykke Li / Slayer / The Damned / Danzig / Public Enemy / Major Lazer / Odd Future / Henry Rollins / Reggie Watts / Brian Posehn / Upright Citizens Brigade / M83 / Blonde Redhead / Girls / Hum / Hot Snakes / Murder City Devils / Black Lips / Boris / Diplo / Flying Lotus / Neon Indian / Rakim / Tune-Yards / Thee Oh Sees / Canon Blue / Okkervil River / Ra Ra Riot / Touché Amoré / Clap Your Hands Say Yeah / Death Grips / The Thermals / Doomriders / D Generation / Cecil Otter / Wugazi / Soul Khan / Ceremony / Brandt Brauer Frick / B L a C K I E / Childish Gambino / Keep Shelly in Athens / Spank Rock / Black Milk / Big Freedia / Anarchy Championship Wrestling / Mind Spiders / Kool Keith / Omar Souleyman / Heartless Bastards / Cold Cave / YACHT / Austra / Lemuria / Tinariwen / Dávila 666 / Asobi Seksu / Budos Band / Danzig Legacy / T Bird and the Breaks / Diamond Rings / Ty Segall / Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears / Paint It Black / Schmillion / Nobunny / Russian Circles / Jim Ward / From Ashes Rise / The Joy Formidable / Cave In / Future Islands / Architecture In Helsinki / World/Inferno Friendship Society / Kid Dynamite / Grimes / Pictureplane / Cloud Nothings / Purity Ring / OFWGKTA / The Radio Dept. / Del the Funky Homosapien / Cannibal Corpse / Le Butcherettes / Four Tet / Baths / Eyehategod / Zero Boys / MNDR / The Crooks / Ocote Soul Sounds / Shapes Have Fangs / TV Torso / Dead Horse / Ted Leo and The Pharmacists / We Were Promised Jetpacks / Mates of State / The Boxer Rebellion / Joe Lally / Manejo Beto / Negative Approach / Trash Talk / Youth Brigade / No Bunny / Earth Crisis / Bane / Graveyard / Total Control / Defeater / OBN III's / Thieves / Dan Deacon / Dengue Fever / Franki Chan / Auto Body / Bird Peterson / G-Side / DJ Car Stereo (Wars) / Donald Glover / Neal Brennan / Best Fwends / Brody Stevens / Captured by Robots / Matt Bearden / Ali Wong / Wham City / Louis Katz / Chris Trew / Doug Mellard / Brett Gelman / Adira Amram / Johnny Pemberton / Cameron Buchholtz / Jake Flores Show all bands
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Auditorium Shores Austin, Texas, United States
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Oct 29, 2011
The Joy Formidable / Rizzle Kicks
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Battersea Power Station London, England, United Kingdom
Oct 28, 2011 –
Oct 29, 2011
Relentless Freeze Festival 2011
Groove Armada / The Streets / The Joy Formidable / Rizzle Kicks / Everything Everything / Modestep / Does It Offend You, Yeah? / Azari & III / Summer Camp / Dirtyphonics / Spector / Duke / Dub Pistols / Pulled Apart By Horses / Beardyman / Marmozets / The Xcerts / Fixers / Zane Lowe / Baskerville / Clement Marfo and the Frontline / Slaves to Gravity / Backbeat Soundsystem / Spycatcher / Revoker / Yes Cadets / True Ingredients / Daniel P Carter / Last Gentlemen / More Diamonds Show all bands
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Unknown venue London, England, United Kingdom
Oct 26, 2011
The Joy Formidable / Funeral Suits Poppodium 013 Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands
Oct 25, 2011
The Joy Formidable
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Orangerie Brussels, Brussels Capital, Belgium
Oct 24, 2011
The Joy Formidable
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Nouveau Casino Paris, Île-de-France, France
Oct 21, 2011
SWN Festival
"SWN Festival" / The Good Wife / Skull Defekts / Visions of Trees / Niki & The Dove / Seams / Astroid Boys / Run, Walk! / Kerouac / Brontide / Two Wounded Birds / Gross Magic / Clock Opera / Breton / Veronica Falls / Gallops / The Victorian English Gentlemens Club / Friends Electric / And So I Watch You from Afar / Man Without Country / The Joy Formidable / Ian Watkins Show all bands
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Great Hall, Cardiff University Students' Union Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Show Duplicate for Oct 21, 2011
Oct 20, 2011 –
Oct 23, 2011
SWN Festival 2011
alt-J / Ben Howard / Daughter / Benjamin Francis Leftwich / The Joy Formidable / Lucy Rose / Other Lives / Niki & The Dove / Spector / Veronica Falls / DZ Deathrays / Herman Düne / Breton / Martyn / Eagulls / Ugly Duckling / Clock Opera / Esben and the Witch / Zulu Winter / Joe Janiak / Patterns / elephant / Man Without Country / Loved Ones / Three Trapped Tigers / Olympians / Red City Radio / The History of Apple Pie / The Jim Jones Revue / Elephant Stone / Cymbals / Fixers / Sweet Baboo / Brontide / Seams / Holland / Echo Lake / Ren Harvieu / Astroid Boys / Beaty Heart / Method / Tubelord / Masters In France / Dancing Years / The Nightingales / Ifan Dafydd / Two Wounded Birds / Apostles / Gross Magic / David Dondero / Sam Airey / H. Hawkline / Sam Duckworth / Dam Mantle / Lewis Floyd Henry / Let's Buy Happiness / Race Horses / Greta Isaac / ∆ / Hymns / Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat / Mechanical Bride / Visions of Trees / Monument Valley / The Keys / Friends Electric / The Torches / Theo / Colorama / Al Lewis / Copy Haho / The Victorian English Gentlemens Club / The Skull Defekts / Y Niwl / Pandas and People / Deaf Club / The Effort / Among Brothers / Jodie Marie / Sissy & The Blisters / Trwbador / Cut Ribbons / Gentle Friendly / Gavin Osborn / Crst / Bleeding Heart Narrative / Shoes and Socks Off / Denuo / Cuba Cuba / Tiger Please / Born Blonde / Rapids / Bedford Falls / Battlekat / Ashtray Navigations / Truckers of Husk / Mowbird / James McKay / Mammal Club / Yr Ods / Violas / Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog / Melodica / The Broken Vinyl Club / Right Hand Left Hand / Dirty Goods / The Cut Ups / Houdini Dax / Chailo Sim / Dividers / Run, Walk / The Saturday's Kids / Yaaks / Creatures of Love / Yoke / Mr Phormula / Sen Segur / Little Arrow / LA2019 / Winter Villains / Ivan Moult / The Witches Drum / Hail! the Planes / Strange News From Another Star / Jen Jeniro / Evening Chorus / Ffred Jones / Joshua Caole / Barefoot Dance of the Sea / Them Squirrels / Joshua Cole / Catrin Herbert / Brandyman / His Naked Torso / Team Sports / Melody and Me Show all bands
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Cardiff Arts Institue Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Oct 19, 2011
The Joy Formidable
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Oran Mor Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Oct 18, 2011
The Joy Formidable
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The Limelight Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Oct 16, 2011
Foo Fighters / Social Distortion / The Joy Formidable
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TD Garden Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Show Duplicate for Oct 16, 2011
Oct 15, 2011
The Joy Formidable / And So I Watch You from Afar / Creatures of Love
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Manchester Academy 2 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Oct 14, 2011
The Joy Formidable / The Dig / Creatures of Love

The Joy Formidable

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HMV Forum London, England, United Kingdom
Show Duplicate for Oct 14, 2011
Oct 13, 2011
The Joy Formidable / [Spunge] / And So I Watch You from Afar / Creatures of Love
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O2 Institute Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Show Duplicate for Oct 13, 2011
Sep 30, 2011
The Joy Formidable / Fang Island
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The Club @ Water Street Rochester, New York, United States
Sep 29, 2011
The Joy Formidable / Fang Island
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Newport Music Hall Columbus, Ohio, United States
Sep 28, 2011
The Joy Formidable / Fang Island Cat's Cradle Carrboro, North Carolina, United States
Sep 26, 2011
The Joy Formidable / Fang Island New Brookland Tavern Columbia, South Carolina, United States

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The Lonely Forest / The Joy Formidable / Soft Reeds
Apr 23, 2011
 Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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Reading Festival 2011
Aug 27 - 29, 2011
 Reading, England, United Kingdom
  Added by Concert Archives 3

Photos from 2011 View All 2011 Photos

Kanrocksas Music Festival 2011 on Aug 5, 2011 [201-small]

Kanrocksas Music Festival 2011
Aug 5, 2011
 Kansas City, Kansas, United States
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Kanrocksas Music Festival 2011 on Aug 5, 2011 [202-small]

Kanrocksas Music Festival 2011
Aug 5, 2011
 Kansas City, Kansas, United States
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Kanrocksas Music Festival 2011 on Aug 5, 2011 [203-small]

Kanrocksas Music Festival 2011
Aug 5, 2011
 Kansas City, Kansas, United States
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Kanrocksas Music Festival 2011 on Aug 5, 2011 [204-small]

Kanrocksas Music Festival 2011
Aug 5, 2011
 Kansas City, Kansas, United States
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Kanrocksas Music Festival 2011 on Aug 5, 2011 [205-small]

Kanrocksas Music Festival 2011
Aug 5, 2011
 Kansas City, Kansas, United States
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Kanrocksas Music Festival 2011 on Aug 5, 2011 [206-small]

Kanrocksas Music Festival 2011
Aug 5, 2011
 Kansas City, Kansas, United States
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Kanrocksas Music Festival 2011 on Aug 5, 2011 [207-small]

Kanrocksas Music Festival 2011
Aug 5, 2011
 Kansas City, Kansas, United States
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Cage The Elephant / Sleeper Agent / The Joy Formidable on Dec 13, 2011 [350-small]

Cage The Elephant / Sleeper Agent / The Joy Formidable
Dec 13, 2011
 St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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Kanrocksas on Aug 5, 2011 [359-small]

Kanrocksas
Aug 5 - 6, 2011
 Kansas City, Kansas, United States
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Foo Fighters / Social Distortion / The Joy Formidable on Nov 7, 2011 [640-small]

Foo Fighters / Social Distortion / The Joy Formidable
Nov 7, 2011
 Duluth, Georgia, United States
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The Joy Formidable on Mar 29, 2011 [850-small]

The Joy Formidable
Mar 29, 2011
 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Foo Fighters / Joan Jett / Social Distortion / The Joy Formidable on Nov 13, 2011 [951-small]

Foo Fighters / Joan Jett / Social Distortion / The Joy Formidable
Nov 13, 2011
 New York, New York, United States
  Uploaded by Carlos Araujo

Genres:

Indie
Indie Rock
British
Female Vocalists
UK
Shoegaze
Dream Pop
Noise Pop
Metropopolis
Nu Gaze
Welsh Rock
Welsh Indie
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Latest Setlist (10/01/2023):

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  1. Caught on a Breeze
  2. Sevier
  3. Ostrich
  4. The Greatest Light Is the Greatest Shade
  5. Whirring
  6. CSTS
  7. Into the Blue
  8. Cradle
  9. Y Garreg Ateb
  10. I Don't Want to See You Like This
  11. Share My Heat
  12. Little Blimp
  13. Left Too Soon

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Concerts Per Year:

2023 16 concerts
2022 43 concerts
2021 12 concerts
2019 50 concerts
2018 41 concerts
2017 21 concerts
2016 126 concerts
2015 17 concerts
2014 10 concerts
2013 130 concerts
2012 62 concerts
2011 128 concerts
2010 91 concerts
2009 75 concerts
2008 11 concerts

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

How many concerts has The Joy Formidable had?

The Joy Formidable has had 833 concerts.

What genre is The Joy Formidable?

The Joy Formidable is most often considered to be Indie, Indie Rock, British, Female Vocalists, UK, Shoegaze, Dream Pop, Noise Pop, Metropopolis, Nu Gaze, Welsh Rock, and Welsh Indie.

When was the last The Joy Formidable concert?

The last The Joy Formidable concert was on October 01, 2023 at Rescue Rooms in Nottingham, England, United Kingdom.

What setlist does The Joy Formidable play live?

The songs that The Joy Formidable performs live vary, but here's the latest setlist that we have from the October 01, 2023 concert at Rescue Rooms in Nottingham, England, United Kingdom:

  1. Caught on a Breeze
  2. Sevier
  3. Ostrich
  4. The Greatest Light Is the Greatest Shade
  5. Whirring
  6. CSTS
  7. Into the Blue
  8. Cradle
  9. Y Garreg Ateb
  10. I Don't Want to See You Like This
  11. Share My Heat
  12. Little Blimp
  13. Left Too Soon

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