The Joy Formidable 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".

Date Concert Venue Location
Oct 01, 2023
The Joy Formidable
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The Rescue Rooms Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
Sep 30, 2023
The Joy Formidable / The People Versus / Fake Empire
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Wedgewood Rooms Southsea, England, United Kingdom
Sep 28, 2023
The Joy Formidable
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The Clapham Grand London, England, United Kingdom
Sep 26, 2023
The Joy Formidable The Globe Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Sep 22, 2023
The Joy Formidable / The People Versus
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Manchester Academy 2 Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Sep 20, 2023
The Joy Formidable / The People Versus

Cradle You Again 2023 UK Tour

King Tuts Wah Wah Hut Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Sep 01, 2023 –
Sep 03, 2023
Rock N Roll Circus 2023
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds / Happy Mondays / The Cribs / The Joy Formidable / Somebody's Child / lostboy / Harri Larkin / Weekend Recovery / Mock Tudors / The Underground Sound Society / Self Esteem / Confidence Man / Natalie Imbruglia / Bimini / Arctic Numpties / Precious Pepala / Oh Papa / Gia Ford / Sister Wives / Rhiannon Scutt / Ferry Corsten / Sander van Doorn / Ilan Bluestone / Marco V / Ruben de Ronde / Corey Mahoney / Simon Brown / Sandy Turnbull / Charla Green / Lee Parkinson Show all bands
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Don Valley Bowl Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Show Duplicate for Sep 01, 2023
Aug 18, 2023 –
Aug 20, 2023
Beautiful Days Festival 2023
The Dead South / Sarah Jarosz / Dreadzone / Gentleman's Dub Club / My Baby / Banco de Gaia / Son of Dave / Yasmin Williams / James Kennedy / Lady Maisery / Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman / Jess Silk / Nogood Boyo / RHG Music / Regime / The Mary Wallopers / Spiers & Boden / The Alarm / Suede / Grandma's House / Gaye Bykers On Acid / Tide Lines / Easy Star All-Stars / Ferocious Dog / Reef / The Waterboys / Primal Scream / Keg / The Joy Formidable / Gaz Coombes / Public Service Broadcasting / Skindred / Levellers Show all bands
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Escot Park Exeter, England, United Kingdom
Jul 05, 2023 –
Jul 08, 2023
2000trees Festival 2023
Soft Play (fka Slaves) / Skindred / Eagles of Death Metal / Dinosaur Pile-Up / Bullet for My Valentine / Hundred Reasons / Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes / American Football / Deaf Havana / Rival Schools / The Wonder Years / Bob Vylan / Electric Six / Empire State Bastard / Hell Is for Heroes / The Bronx / Loathe / Holding Absence / Kid Kapichi / Brutus / Pitchshifter / Black Honey / Cancer Bats / Employed To Serve / kneecap / Jamie Lenman / Chelsea Grin / And So I Watch You from Afar / The Joy Formidable / Tigercub / Joyce Manor / Crows / Dream State / De Staat / Martha / Casey / High Vis / Dead Poet Society / Owen / One Step Closer / The Xcerts / Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties / SPRINTS / Microwave / Kublai Khan TX / Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. / Bat Sabbath / Svalbard / Jim Lockey And The Solemn Sun / The Chisel / No devotion / LostAlone / Chubby and the Gang / Bad Nerves / The Scratch / Prima Queen / Zulu / Militarie Gun / The Hurt Process / Narrow Head / Heriot / The 900 / Arxx / As Everything Unfolds / Ayron Jones / B-Sydes / Beach Riot / Beauty School / Beetlebug / BEX / big special / Big Spring / Bilk / blackgold / Cage Fight / Carpark / Carsick / Clarence / Cody Frost / Congratulations / Dead Pony / Delaire the Liar / Delilah Bon / Dick Valentine / Enola Gay / Exit Child / fleshwater / Frozemode / Funke and the Two Tone Baby / Gaffa Tape Sandy / Gaz Brookfield / Giver / Going Off / Graphic Nature / Guise / Gurriers / Haggard Cat / Hannah Grae / Hannah Rose Platt / Haunt the Woods / Heart Attack Man / House of Women / Hypothetics / Ithaca / John J Presley / July Jones / kite thief / Kelsy Karter & The Heroines / Koyo / Lake Malice / Lakes / Lambrini Girls / Loose Articles / Love is Noise / Lozeak / Lynks / Mallavora / Mimi Barks / Modern Error / Motherhood / New Pagans / Noisy / The Oozes / Origami Angel / Paledusk / PET NEEDS / Press To Meco / Prince Daddy & The Hyena / Profiler / Projector / Public Body / Reminders / Rxptrs / Saint Agnes / Safire / Sounds Mint / Sugar Horse / SNAYX / The St Pierre Snake Invasion / Suds / Telltale / THICK / Toodles and the Hectic Pity / Unpeople / Warshy / Ways Away / Witch Fever / Bethany Nelson / Blush Puppy / Darcey Hope / E-PO / AMADEUS TMM / Eighty Eight Miles / EL KNIGHT / Felix / Five Lines / GOLD FEVER / HARMER JAYS / Holler / IMMY / MAVIS HALL / MELINA BLANCO / MUDCOFFEE / MUTUAL BLUE / NOT SARAH / SafeNath / SANTÙ / SONOTTO / Stay at Home and Die / TÉODORA / The New Cut / Demob Happy Show all bands
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Upcote Farm Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom
Show Duplicates for Jul 05, 2023
Jun 22, 2023
Cancelled
The Joy Formidable / Cuffed Up 9:30 Club Washington, D.C., United States
May 27, 2023
In It Together
"In It Together" / Anne Marie / The Vamps / Friction / The Joy Formidable / DJ Sammy / The Craig Charles Funk & Soul Club / James / UB40 / Chase & Status / Bou / David Rodigan / Kettama / The Goa Express / Louise
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Old Park Farm Port Talbot, United Kingdom
May 04, 2023 –
May 06, 2023
Focus Wales 2023
The Coral / The Joy Formidable / Will Joseph Cook / Squid / A Guy Called Gerald / Dream Wife / Billy Nomates / TVAM / Islet / Adwaith / Hannah Grae / Prima Queen / Swiss Portrait / Neue Grafik Ensemble / Hannah Scott / Hanorah / Bibi Club / SHELF LIVES / Tangerinecat / Eyesore & the Jinx / XL the Band / The Silver Lines / PerfectParachutePicture / TELGATE / Mouraine / CLOUDSURFERS (NL) / XTIE / CHROMA (UK) / Acid Klaus / Afro Cluster / Aisha Kigs / Al Lewis / Alaskalaska / Alffa / Baba Ali / Baby Brave / Band Pres Llareggub / Ben Ottewell / Boy With Apple / Bracco / Camera / Campfire Social / Cara Hammond / Cassidy Mann / Cerys Hafana / Commander Spoon / Cosmic Dog Fog / Cowboyy / Dafydd Iwan / Dave Acton / Deijuvhs / Delta Radio / Denuo / Dilettante / Dresden Wolves / Edie Bens / Eitha Da / Elina Lee / Ellen Froese / False Hope for the Savage / Fernie / Ffenest / Gallops / Go Go Machine Orchestra / God Alone. (IRE) / Grimelda / Gros Coeur / Grubb & Eedens / Gwenifer Raymond / Haley Blais / Half/Time / Hause Plants / Hazmat / HMS Morris / Holy Coves / Holy Nothing / Hourglvss / Isa leen / Ivytide / Izra Fitch / Jack in Water / James and the Cold Gun / Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage / Jodie Marie / Juice Menace / Katherine Priddy / Kidsmoke / Kingkhan / Laurence-Anne / lemfreck / LohArano / Maddie Morris / Mantaraybryn / Mercy Rose / Minas / moja / Mooi / Mr Phormula / Muddy Elephant / N'famady Kouyaté / Naduh / Nita / Nogood Boyo / Nuria Graham / One Kabira / Opus Kink / Paddy Hanna / Paperhouse / Parcs / parisa fouladi / Pillow Fite / Sad Boys Club / Sage Todz / Shlug / Skunkadelic / Sophie Jamieson / Sophie McKeand / Sun / Tara Bandito / Teddy Hunter / The Trials of Cato / Walt Disco / wedance / Ynys Show all bands
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Focus Wales 2023 Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom
Show Duplicates for May 04, 2023
Mar 22, 2023
The Joy Formidable Wedgewood Rooms Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Mar 20, 2023
The Joy Formidable O2 Academy Oxford Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Mar 17, 2023
The Joy Formidable The Rescue Rooms Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
Mar 15, 2023
The Joy Formidable King Tut's Wah Wah Hut Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Nov 15, 2022
The Joy Formidable
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The Roxy Theatre West Hollywood, California, United States
Nov 12, 2022
The Joy Formidable / Cuffed Up Soda Bar San Diego, California, United States
Nov 11, 2022
The Joy Formidable Pappy And Harriet's Pioneertown Palace Pioneertown, California, United States
Nov 09, 2022
The Joy Formidable / Cuffed Up

The Joy Formidable / Cuffed Up at The Independent

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The Independent San Francisco, California, United States

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Louder Than Life Festival 2022
Sep 22 - 25, 2022
 Louisville, Kentucky, United States
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Louder Than Life Festival 2022
Sep 22 - 25, 2022
 Louisville, Kentucky, United States
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Louder Than Life Festival 2022
Sep 22 - 25, 2022
 Louisville, Kentucky, United States
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Louder Than Life Festival 2022
Sep 22 - 25, 2022
 Louisville, Kentucky, United States
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Louder Than Life Festival 2022
Sep 22 - 25, 2022
 Louisville, Kentucky, United States
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Norman Music Fest
Apr 27 - 28, 2013
 Norman, Oklahoma, United States
  Added by Skanzo

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Bumbershoot Festival on Sep 2, 2013 [944-small]

Bumbershoot Festival
Sep 2, 2013
 Seattle, Washington, United States
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Riot Fest (Chicago) on Sep 12, 2015 [825-small]

Riot Fest (Chicago)
Sep 12, 2015
 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Riot Fest (Chicago)
Sep 12, 2015
 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Riot Fest (Chicago)
Sep 12, 2015
 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Riot Fest (Chicago)
Sep 12, 2015
 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Riot Fest (Chicago)
Sep 12, 2015
 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Riot Fest (Chicago)
Sep 12, 2015
 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Sep 12, 2015
 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Riot Fest (Chicago)
Sep 12, 2015
 Chicago, Illinois, 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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The Joy Formidable / The Black Keys on Jul 8, 2013 [920-small]

The Joy Formidable / The Black Keys
Jul 8, 2013
 Buffalo, New York, 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
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UK
Shoegaze
Dream Pop
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2023 15 concerts
2022 43 concerts
2021 12 concerts
2019 49 concerts
2018 40 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 830 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 The 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 The 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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