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 3)

Date Concert Venue Location
Sep 25, 2011
The Joy Formidable / Fang Island
  Setlists
The Orpheum Tampa, Florida, United States
Sep 24, 2011
Music Midtown 2011
Coldplay / The Black Keys / Cage The Elephant / Young the Giant / Walk the Moon / Manchester Orchestra / Band of Skulls / The Joy Formidable / The Constellations / The Postelles
  Setlists
Music Midtown 2011 Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Show Duplicate for Sep 24, 2011
Sep 22, 2011
The Joy Formidable

Midpoint Music Festival

Grammer's Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Sep 21, 2011
U.S. Royalty / The Joy Formidable
  Setlists
The Firebird St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Sep 19, 2011
The Joy Formidable Black Sheep Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Sep 14, 2011
The Joy Formidable / Telekinesis
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El Rey Theatre Los Angeles, California, United States
Sep 11, 2011
The Joy Formidable / Races
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Detroit Bar Costa Mesa, California, United States
Sep 10, 2011
The Joy Formidable / Races
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Harlow's Sacramento, California, United States
Sep 08, 2011
Brand New / The Joy Formidable
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Wonder Ballroom Portland, Oregon, United States
Sep 07, 2011 –
Sep 11, 2011
MusicFest NW 2011
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis / Band of Horses / Iron & Wine / Phantogram / The Vaccines / Little Dragon / Jared Mees & The Grown Children / Explosions in the Sky / The Kills / The Joy Formidable / Witch Mountain / The Antlers / Bare Wires / The Horrors / Unknown Mortal Orchestra / Blind Pilot / A Storm of Light / Sharon Van Etten / Eternal Tapestry / The Miracles Club / The Dimes / Blitzen Trapper / Tennis / YACHT / Butthole Surfers / Ty Segall / The Minders / Thee Oh Sees / Cass McCombs / Reporter / Givers / Charles Bradley / The Thermals / Mr Twin Sister / Shabazz Palaces / Horse Feathers / Avi Buffalo / Soft Kill / Handsome Furs / Sebadoh / The Hood Internet / Akimbo / Alela Diane / Glass Candy / EMA / Typhoon / The Globes / Weinland / Beat Connection / Mad Rad / The Soft Moon / Dirty Beaches / Heavy Cream / Neurosis / Hammerhead / The Gaslamp Killer / Fernando / Joe Pug / Pierced Arrows / Kylesa / Blouse / And And And / Rhett Miller / Climber / Dâm-Funk / The Archers / Sleepy Sun / Transient / Thousands / Olivia Tremor Control / Anaïs Mitchell / Viva Voce / Black Prairie / Crooked Fingers / Rabbits / Emily Wells / You Am I / Rebecca Gates / Loch Lomond / Caleb Klauder / Pig Destroyer / Bobby Bare / The Moondoggies / Big Freedia / Yob / Death Songs / Zuzuka Poderosa / Grails / E3 / Dirty Mittens / Morning Teleportation / Centro-Matic / RTX / Wild Ones / Jeffrey Jerusalem / Monarques / Y La Bamba / P.S. I Love You / Master Blaster / Richmond Fontaine / The Crypts / Dolorean / Super Melody / White Hills / Dennis Coffey / Holcombe Waller / The Ladybug Transistor / Talkdemonic / Boat / Portland Cello Project / Elitist / Ume / Ted Leo / Lifesavas / Quiet Life / Natasha Kmeto / The Angry Orts / Celilo / Old Light / Diesto / Mnemonic Sounds / Violet Isle / Txe / Kelly Blair Bauman / The Operative / Nether Regions / Purple & Green / DJ Anjali / The Dangerous Boys Club / The Incredible Kid / E Rock / Marius Libman / FLINN / Archers Of Loaf Show all bands
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Unknown venue Portland, Oregon, United States
Sep 05, 2011
The Joy Formidable / Low Spin Republik Nightclub Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Sep 04, 2011
Sonic Boom Festival 2011
Metric / Cake / Jane's Addiction / Social Distortion / The Joy Formidable / Manchester Orchestra / Middle Class Rut / Hollerado / Christian Hansen & the Autistics
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Unknown venue Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Sep 02, 2011
107.7 the End Summer Camp 2011
Neon Trees / The Joy Formidable / Manchester Orchestra / Middle Class Rut / The Naked and Famous / AWOLNATION / Redlight King / Viva Brother / Portugal. The Man / The Givers
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Marymoor Park Redmond, Washington, United States
Show Duplicate for Sep 02, 2011
Aug 28, 2011
Leeds Festival
"Leeds Festival" / Pulp / The Strokes / The National / Jimmy Eat World / Madness / Two Door Cinema Club / Seasick Steve / The Pigeon Detectives / The Joy Formidable / Crystal Castles / Bombay Bicycle Club / Glassjaw / Everything Everything / The Kills / Odd Future / Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros / Yuck / Funeral Party / Mighty Mighty Bosstones / The King Blues / The Bronx / Capdown / leftover crack / Comeback Kid / Boysetsfire / letlive. / Street Dogs / Teenage Bottlerocket / Title Fight / Sharks / The Midnight Beast / Rival Schools / And So I Watch You from Afar / The Smith Westerns / Cloud Control / Cults / Mariachi El Bronx / Grouplove / Tribes / Big Deal / Young the Giant / She Keeps Bees / The Mark Watson Band / Russell Kane / Saul Williams / Fixers / SBTRKT / Abandoman / Dave Fulton / Jimmy McGhie / Dizraeli / Brigitte Aphrodite Show all bands
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Bramham Park Wetherby, England, United Kingdom
Aug 27, 2011 –
Aug 29, 2011
Reading Festival 2011
Muse / The Strokes / My Chemical Romance / Pulp / Crystal Castles / The Offspring / Enter Shikari / Madness / Rise Against / The View / Two Door Cinema Club / Twin Atlantic / Cage The Elephant / Seasick Steve / New Found Glory / Best Coast / The Pigeon Detectives / Does It Offend You, Yeah? / Dananananaykroyd / The Joy Formidable / Pulled Apart By Horses / Panic! At the Disco / Death from Above 1979 / Thirty Seconds to Mars / White Lies / Beady Eye / Friendly Fires / Miles Kane / Mona Show all bands
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Richfield Avenue Reading, England, United Kingdom
Show Duplicate for Aug 27, 2011
Aug 26, 2011 –
Aug 28, 2011
Reading Festival 2011
Thirty Seconds to Mars / Don Broco / The Offspring / Anna Calvi / Tribes / The Horrors / The Flats / NERO / White Lies / The Streets / Death from Above 1979 / Seasick Steve / Peter Doherty / Miles Kane / Dananananaykroyd / Patrick Wolf / The View / Cuba Cuba / Bring Me The Horizon / Cage The Elephant / Panic! At the Disco / The National / Jimmy Eat World / Two Door Cinema Club / The Joy Formidable / The Strokes / The Mighty Mighty Bosstones / Yuck / Madness / letlive. / Funeral Party / Smith Westerns / Pulp / OFWGKTA / The King Blues / Everything Everything / Spector / And So I Watch You from Afar / The Pigeon Detectives / Rival Schools / Ed Sheeran / Fucked Up / Grouplove / Boysetsfire / Hot Water Music / Cold Cave / The Bronx / Twin Atlantic / Royal Bangs / Benjamin Francis Leftwich / White Denim / Nightbox / She Keeps Bees / Chapel Club / Islet / Castrovalva / ROMANCE (UK) / Unkle Sounds / The Original Rude Boys / Off! / Interpol / Muse / Architects / Comeback Kid / The Naked and Famous / Cherri Bomb / Mona / Pulled Apart By Horses / Clock Opera / Crystal Castles / Bombay Bicycle Club / Dry the River / Tom Vek / Devlin / Street Dogs / The Menzingers / Cults / Descendents / Mariachi El Bronx / Simian Mobile Disco / Crystal Fighters / Young the Giant / Cloud Control / SBTRKT / Sub Focus / 2Many DJs / Fight Like Apes / Viva Brother / A Genuine Freakshow / The Twilight Singers / Tomahawks for Targets / Best Coast / Metronomy / Glassjaw / Frank Turner / New Found Glory / Taking Back Sunday / My Chemical Romance / Enter Shikari / The Vaccines / Beady Eye / Deftones / Rise Against / The Kills / The Antlers / Friendly Fires / Warpaint / Frankie & The Heartstrings / Foster The People / Capdown / Sharks / The Midnight Beast / Flogging Molly / Digitalism / Bedouin Soundclash / Cerebral Ballzy / Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros / Mount Kimbie / Leftöver Crack / Mini Mansions / Dutch Uncles / Big Deal / Funeral Suits / Cocknbullkid / Kirk Spencer / Elbow / Little Comets / The Computers / The Blackout / Does It Offend You, Yeah? / Your Demise / We Are the Ocean / The Black Pacific / Noah & The Whale / Tim Minchin Show all bands
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Richfield Avenue Reading, England, United Kingdom
Show Duplicates for Aug 26, 2011
Aug 23, 2011 –
Aug 25, 2011
Reading Festival 2011
My Chemical Romance / Thirty Seconds to Mars / Bring Me The Horizon / New Found Glory / The Blackout / Architects / The Vaccines / Noah & The Whale / The Midnight Beast / Madness / Two Door Cinema Club / Crystal Castles / Muse / Elbow / Interpol / Enter Shikari / Cherri Bomb / Pulled Apart By Horses / Rise Against / Deftones / Metronomy / The Offspring / The Joy Formidable / The Pigeon Detectives / Jimmy Eat World / Capdown / Bombay Bicycle Club / Pulp / The Strokes / We Are The Ocean / Frank Turner / The View / Twin Atlantic / Panic! At The Disco Show all bands
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Richfield Avenue Reading, England, United Kingdom
Aug 18, 2011 –
Aug 20, 2011
Pukkelpop 2011
Off! / Make Do and Mend / Eminem / Foo Fighters / Calvin Harris / Wiz Khalifa / Foster the People / Skrillex / The Offspring / Highbloo / Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros / Fleet Foxes / Lykke Li / Japanese Voyeurs / Rise Against / NERO / Wallace Vanborn / The Naked and Famous / Yuko / Andy C & Mc Gq / Tinie Tempah / Mark Ronson / Young the Giant / The Ting Tings / Good Charlotte / Benny Benassi / James Blake / Crystal Castles / Example / Deftones / The Wombats / Yellowcard / The Avett Brothers / Noah & The Whale / Bonobo / Chromeo / Little Dragon / Friendly Fires / Explosions in the Sky / The Kills / Duck Sauce / Fitz & The Tantrums / DJ Fresh / Stromae / The Streets / Cults / New Found Glory / D12 / Crystal Fighters / The Maine / Warpaint / Katy B / Eliza Doolittle / Sub Focus / The Antlers / Apocalyptica / Gomez / The Joy Formidable / The Horrors / Borgore / Glasvegas / Twin Shadow / A-Trak / tUnE-yArDs / Noisettes / Yelle / The Raveonettes / Battles / Modestep / Paul Kalkbrenner / Trentemøller / Wild Beasts / Skunk Anansie / Crookers / Cassius / As I Lay Dying / Netsky / Blonde Redhead / Jamie Woon / The Go! Team / Within Temptation / Miles Kane / OFWGKTA / Mount Kimbie / Birdy Nam Nam / Smith Westerns / Yuck / Wolf Gang / The View / White Denim / Suicidal Tendencies / SebastiAn / Other Lives / Hudson Mohawke / Bouncing Souls / Matthew Dear / Dry the River / …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead / Fake Blood / Rustie / Camo & Krooked / Anna Calvi / Patrick Wolf / Emalkay / Gesaffelstein / MNDR / Fenech-Soler / dEUS / Fucked Up / Kids In Glass Houses / Morning Parade / Azari & III / Étienne de Crécy / Sebadoh / Danny Byrd / Title Fight / Mayer Hawthorne and The County / Alex Winston / The Shoes / Congorock / José James / Suuns / Busy P / Breakage / Housse de Racket / Rival Schools / The Subs / The Twilight Singers / Drop The Lime / Trash Talk / Esben and the Witch / Beardyman / Ramadanman / Das Pop / Planningtorock / Wolf People / Untold / Adept / Your Demise / Dorian Concept / Feadz / Creep / The Sound of Arrows / Mini Mansions / Trophy Wife / Alice Gold / Veara / Dave Clarke / Pearson Sound / Yashin / Jess Mills / Kurt Vile & The Violators / Bleed From Within / The Black Pacific / Skream & Benga / CanBlaster / The Customs / Devil Sold His Soul / School Is Cool / Bloody Beetroots Death Crew 77 / Youngman MC / Zornik / Sore Losers / The Hickey Underworld / The Bony King of Nowhere / Carte Blanche / Gay for Johnny Depp / No Use For A Name / Panic! At the Disco / SX / Thirty Seconds to Mars / Face To Face / The Pains of Being Pure at Heart / Bring Me The Horizon / Cage the Elephant / Bullet for my Valentine Show all bands
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Pukkelpop Festival Hasselt, Flanders, Belgium
Show Duplicates for Aug 18, 2011
Aug 17, 2011 –
Aug 20, 2011
Paredes de Coura 2011
Foster the People / Two Door Cinema Club / Crystal Castles / Marina and the Diamonds / Metronomy / Mogwai / Deerhunter / Pulp / Kings of Convenience / Warpaint / Kurt Vile / The Joy Formidable / Twin Shadow / Battles / Wild Beasts / Blonde Redhead / Death from Above 1979 / Delorean / No Age / Here We Go Magic / Crystal Stilts / Riva Starr / Chapel Club / Jamaica / Le Butcherettes / Esben and the Witch / Brother / Omar Souleyman / Airbag / Mixhell / Orelha Negra / Linda Martini / You Can't Win Charlie Brown / We Trust / peixe : avião / Murdering Tripping Blues / Governo / Vladimir Dynamo Show all bands
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Praia Fluvial do Taboão Paredes de Coura, Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Show Duplicate for Aug 17, 2011
Aug 12, 2011 –
Aug 14, 2011
Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival 2011
Christina Perri / Grouplove / Beirut / Diplo / The Roots / The Decemberists / Phantogram / Muse / Erykah Badu / OK Go / Ellie Goulding / The Vaccines / Little Dragon / The Black Keys / Toro Y Moi / Best Coast / STRFKR / Girl Talk / Arctic Monkeys / The Joy Formidable / Phish / MGMT / Clap Your Hands Say Yeah / tUnE-yArDs / Lord Huron / Collie Buddz / Foster the People / Josh Ritter / Wye Oak / Arcade Fire / Junip / Ty Segall / Macklemore & Ryan Lewis / John Fogerty / Julieta Venegas / STS9 / Sia / Charles Bradley / Vetiver / Deadmau5 / !!! (Chk Chk Chk) / Old 97's / Mavis Staples / Ana Tijoux / Major Lazer / Paper Diamond / The Shins / Big Audio Dynamite / Lotus / The Limousines / Eskmo / K.Flay / Ximena Sariñana / Bob Schneider / Lyrics Born / Miguel Migs / Neil Finn / Mexican Institute of Sound / Warren Haynes / Space Cowboy / Tamaryn / The Fresh & Onlys / Charles Bradley & Menahan Street Band / Greyboy Allstars / The Stone Foxes / The Infamous Stringdusters / Kelley Stoltz / Orgone / Latyrx / Release the Sunbird / Fred Everything / Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers / 8 Ball / Paul F. Tompkins / Marky / Diego's Umbrella / Doc Martin / Matt Braunger / Lateef / Moshe Kasher / Pajama Party / The Originals / DJ Mes / Motion Potion / David Harness / Sunbirds / Dj Platurn / Jazz Mafia / New Orleans Klezmer Allstars / Deon Cole / Eric Sharp / Franky Boissy / Kitten On The Keys / Freestyle Love Supreme / Cosmic Suckerpunch / Gallagher / Ali Wong / The Original Meters / Warren Hayes Band / Arann Harris and the Farm Band / Aaron Axelsen / Chris Orr / Jay Alexander / Ren the Vinyl Archaeologist / Mauricio Aviles / Ghost Robot / Melissa Villasenor / DJ Deevice / Sharon Finn / Cowboy Girls Show all bands
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Unknown venue San Francisco, California, United States
Show Duplicates for Aug 12, 2011

Videos from 2011 View All 2011 Videos

The Lonely Forest / The Joy Formidable / Soft Reeds
Apr 23, 2011
 Kansas City, Missouri, United States
  Added by Purlin7

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
  Uploaded by Tom Kennedy

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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