The Joy Formidable's 2009 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 75 concerts in 2009 (Page 3)

Date Concert Venue Location
Jul 04, 2009 –
Jul 05, 2009
The Hop Farm Music Festival 2009
Cage The Elephant / Florence + the Machine / Metronomy / The Fratellis / Editors / Echo & the Bunnymen / Doves / Noah & The Whale / Paul Weller / The Joy Formidable / Mystery Jets / Ladyhawke / Ash / The Pigeon Detectives / The View / Super Furry Animals / British Sea Power / Datarock / Étienne de Crécy / 65daysofstatic / Bell X1 / The Rifles / Alex Gopher / The Twilight Sad / The Twang / The Rumble Strips / 2manydjs (DJ Set) / Howling Bells / Roger Daltrey / The Sunshine Underground / Dananananaykroyd / Jape / Johnny Foreigner / Let's Wrestle / Fight Like Apes / Kissy Sell Out / D.I.M / Scratch Perverts / That Petrol Emotion / Burn the Negative / Dr. Lektroluv / Eight Legs / Heartbreak / The Chapman Family / Sergeant / The Good The Bad / RSAG / Rarely Seen Above Ground Show all bands
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Paddock Wood, UK
Jun 11, 2009
The Joy Formidable Patterns Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Jun 10, 2009
The Joy Formidable
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The Joiners Southampton, England, United Kingdom
Jun 08, 2009
The Joy Formidable / Citadels / Kyte
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The Borderline London, England, United Kingdom
Jun 07, 2009
The Joy Formidable / Sunset Cinema Club
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Bar Academy Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Jun 05, 2009
The Joy Formidable / It’s A Buffalo / The Heartbreaks / Pocketknife
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The Ruby Lounge Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Jun 02, 2009
The Joy Formidable / White Belt Yellow Tag / The Birdman Rallies
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Fibbers York, England, United Kingdom
Jun 01, 2009
The Joy Formidable O2 Academy Newcastle Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
May 31, 2009
The Joy Formidable / Young Rebel Set Barfly Liverpool Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
May 24, 2009
Dot To Dot Festival 2009
Mumford & Sons / The xx / Cage The Elephant / Marina / Friendly Fires / The Joy Formidable / Boys Noize / Ladyhawke / Little Boots / The Pains of Being Pure at Heart / Grandaddy / Wolf Gang / Dan Black / Girls / Cursive / 65daysofstatic / Titus Andronicus / Beast / Patrick Wolf / A.C. Newman / Crystal Stilts / Wintersleep / The Soft Pack / Brodinski / Vivian Girls / Maps / Teitur / D.I.D / Liam Finn / Shapeshifter / Crystal Antlers / Future of the Left / Sharks / Wave Machines / Naive New Beaters / Dinosaur Pile-Up / Polly Scattergood / Gran Ronde / Abe Vigoda / My Vitriol / Fight Like Apes / Alessi's Ark / The Apples / Hjaltalín / The Gay Blades / Son of Dave / Annie Mac / Colourmusic / Tommy Reilly / Flashguns / Kid British / The Computers / Duchess Says / Fan Death / I Heart Hiroshima / Skint & Demoralised / LoveLikeFire / The Mission District / Baddies / Official Secrets Act / Dag för Dag / Ulterior / Telegraphs / Bicycle Thieves / House of Brothers / Chik Budo / Black Eyes & Neckties / Dusty And The Dreaming Spires / The Temper Trap / Pulled Apart By Horses Show all bands
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Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
May 23, 2009
Stag & Dagger Festival 2009
Cold War Kids / The Joy Formidable / Black Lips / Frightened Rabbit / Everything Everything / White Denim / Cursive / Clark / The Twilight Sad / Chew Lips / Dananananaykroyd / The Aliens / The Phantom Band / The Mae Shi / The Gay Blades / Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson / Meursault / Tubelord / Gringo Star / Optimo / Blue Roses / Mika Miko / BMX Bandits / Tim Exile / Stag / Over The Wall / Dolby Anol / Woodenbox With a Fistful of Fivers / Dagger / Findo Gask / Art of Parties / Elvis Suicide / Record Playerz Show all bands
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Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
May 22, 2009
Cage The Elephant / The Joy Formidable / fiN KOKO London, England, United Kingdom
May 21, 2009
Stag & Dagger Festival 2009
The xx / Cold War Kids / Marina / Rusko / Wavves / The Joy Formidable / Wild Beasts / White Denim / Dan Black / Girls / Wintersleep / The Twilight Sad / Vivian Girls / We Have Band / James Yuill / Maps / Casiokids / Dananananaykroyd / Evan Dando / Speech Debelle / Micachu & The Shapes / Telepathe / Andrew Weatherall / Lovefoxxx / Let's Wrestle / Dan Smith / Abe Vigoda / The Phantom Band / Thunderheist / High Rankin / The Mae Shi / Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson / Filthy Dukes / Tubelord / Blue Roses / Duchess Says / Beth Jeans Houghton / N-Type / Exlovers / Young Turks / Your Twenties / Plugs / Stag / Dag för Dag / Pens / Navvy / Cage & Aviary / Kill Em All / Soy Un Caballo / Tomb Crew / Virgin Passages / Maximillion / An Experiment On a Bird In the Air Pump / Dagger / arch m / Moodie / Arthur Delaney / Baby Venom / Pure Groove / Young And Lost / Blue Bambinos / Trash Tracys / DJ Slugz / Capser C Show all bands
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London, England, United Kingdom
May 16, 2009
The Great Escape Festival
"The Great Escape Festival" / Patrick Wolf / Miranda Lee Richards / Marina / The Low Anthem / Hockey / Televised Crimewave / The Joy Formidable / Little Boots / Kid British / Citizen Cope / Unicorn Kid / The Soft Pack
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TBA Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Show Duplicate for May 16, 2009
May 15, 2009
The Joy Formidable

The Great Escape

Oceans Rooms (Ground) Brighton, England, United Kingdom
May 14, 2009 –
May 16, 2009
The Great Escape 2009
Mumford & Sons / The xx / Cage The Elephant / The Temper Trap / Kasabian / Marina / Metric / Bombay Bicycle Club / Metronomy / Peter Bjorn and John / Citizen Cope / The Maccabees / Crystal Fighters / Noah & The Whale / Django Django / Wavves / LIGHTS / Fink / Chairlift / Everything Everything / Black Lips / Blind Pilot / Dan Auerbach / The Joy Formidable / Villagers / Enter Shikari / The Charlatans / CSS / Mystery Jets / Ane Brun / William Fitzsimmons / Little Boots / White Denim / Mr Hudson / The Pains of Being Pure at Heart / The Big Pink / The Boxer Rebellion / Asaf Avidan & The Mojos / We Were Promised Jetpacks / Just Jack / Connan Mockasin / Heartless Bastards / Gang Of Four / Johnny Flynn / Slow Club / Ben Kweller / fanfarlo / Wolf Gang / Dan Black / Sea Power / Little Comets / School of Seven Bells / Cloud Control / Arkells / Cursive / Girls / Datarock / Beast / The Low Anthem / Idlewild / The Handsome Family / Titus Andronicus / Holy Fuck / Bell X1 / Hockey / Patrick Wolf / V.V. Brown / Racoon / Cocoon / The Veils / Wintersleep / Dan Mangan / Triggerfinger / British India / The Twilight Sad / Moriarty / The Soft Pack / Vivian Girls / The Invisible / Hey Rosetta! / And So I Watch You from Afar / We Have Band / Jesca Hoop / James Yuill / We Are the Ocean / Soap&Skin / Emmy the Great / Sophie Hunger / Thomas Dybdahl / Teenagers / The Hundred In the Hands / The King Blues / The Rumble Strips / I Blame Coco / TTNG / Frankmusik / Lightspeed Champion / Teitur / Maps / De Staat / The Pipettes / Chew Lips / Dinosaur Pile-Up / Neil Halstead / Liam Finn / The Acorn / The Leisure Society / Bashy / Casiokids / Evil Nine / Pulled Apart By Horses / Manel / Future of the Left / Naive New Beaters / Sharks / Futurecop! / Crystal Antlers / Marnie Stern / Juliette Lewis / Black Box Revelation / Times New Viking / Leona Naess / Evan Dando / Dananananaykroyd / Turbowolf / Polly Scattergood / Micachu & The Shapes / Speech Debelle / General Fiasco / S.C.U.M / Rainbow Arabia / Telepathe / Johnny Foreigner / Freeland / Riz MC / Smoke Fairies / Kap Bambino / Three Trapped Tigers / Trailer Trash Tracys / Peggy Sue / Lawrence Arabia / Solid Gold / Gran Ronde / Golden Silvers / Zach Hill / Dan Smith / Let's Wrestle / Hanne Hukkelberg / The Phantom Band / Abe Vigoda / The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble / Brakes / Fight Like Apes / Friendship / Iain Archer / Broken Records / Kissy Sell Out / Hjaltalín / The Apples / Sky Larkin / I LIKE TRAINS / Lay Low / Esser / Yves Klein Blue / Karkwa / Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu / DM Stith / Mirrors / Amazing Baby / Engine-EarZ Experiment / The Mae Shi / Woodpigeon / The John Steel Singers / Ohbijou / The Gay Blades / Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson / Phantom / We Are Wolves / Pure Reason Revolution / Filthy Dukes / 80Kidz / The Answering Machine / Grasscut / The Bewitched Hands / Theodore (UK) / The New Wine / The Shining / Miranda Lee Richards / Colourmusic / The Ghost of a Thousand / Alan Pownall / Shapes / Anita Blay / zZz / The Miserable Rich / Medusa / Post War Years / Kid British / The Deer Tracks / Flashguns / The Computers / Blue Roses / Duchess Says / Mika Miko / Thomas Tantrum / Aziz / Melissa McClelland / My Latest Novel / Beth Jeans Houghton / Die! Die! Die! / Ocelot / Banjo Or Freakout / I Was A King / My Tiger My Timing / Trip / Fan Death / Mutiny On the Bounty / Luke Doucet / Dark Horses / Found / Spires / Bearsuit / The Rogues / Hatcham Social / My Sad Captains / Exlovers / The Week That Was / Grammatics / I Heart Hiroshima / Heartbreak / Advaita / Fever Fever / Skint & Demoralised / Blakfish / Race Horses / Sweethead / The Boy Who Trapped the Sun / Harrys Gym / Your Twenties / LoveLikeFire / Mongrel / Phantom Limb / The Voluntary Butler Scheme / Baddies / The Chapman Family / Mechanical Bride / It Hugs Back / DE DE MOUSE / A Grave With No Name / Sad Day for Puppets / Mpho / Mike Bones / Official Secrets Act / Hot Leg / Yes Giantess / Tonight Is Goodbye / Gable / Thomas Truax / Dag för Dag / Crave / Betty and The Werewolves / Slaves to Gravity / The Brute Chorus / SJ Esau / Bang Bang Eche / Invasion / Ipso Facto / Magic Magic / Kurran and the Wolfnotes / Brian Borcherdt / Joe Gideon & The Shark / Swarathma / Soft Toy Emergency / Rebekah Higgs / Hexes / Calories / Males / Elle Bandita / Indigo Children / The Alexandria Quartet / Tommy Tokyo & Starving For My Gravy / Cuchillo / Throats / Gentle Friendly / Roses Kings Castles / Ou Est Le Swimming Pool / Ulterior / Gloria Cycles / Absent Elk / Mothlite / Catherine A.D. / Perfect People / Kaputt / Rosie & The Goldbug / Fanzine / Kasms / The River Phoenix / Adam Heldring / Screaming Tea Party / Koko Von Napoo / Gold Teeth / Swanton Bombs / The Locarnos / Tucker / Video Nasties / This City / Hospital Bombers / Planet Earth / Jaakko & Jay / Our Fold / Christopher Rees / The Mark Inside / Me My Head / Hoodlums / Citadels / Telegraphs / The Last Republic / Electric City / Betty Steeles / Panama Kings / To the Bones / Dirty Stop Out / Birdengine / Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man / Riddim Saunter / Threatmantics / Come On Gang! / Lyrebirds / An Experiment On a Bird In the Air Pump / TV Off / Tom Allalone & The 78s / Mean Poppa Lean / Giantess / Superfuzz / Ruby Jean & the Thoughtful Bees / Emily Baker / Kids Love Lies / 4 or 5 Magicians / Lightsgoblue. / The Moi non Plus / The She Creatures / Barringtone / Artefacts for Space Travel / London Blackmarket / Youves / Dimbleby & Capper / Nathan FLutebox Lee / The Balky Mule / Charlie Ash / Televised Crimewave / You Animals / The Shiny Brights / Ultimate Power Duo / Juliette and the New Romantiques / The Great Shakes / Lion Club / valerie francis / Kate Rogers Band / Rory McVicar / Joe Rose / Arthur Delaney / Pocket Lips / Hot Silk Pockets / Natccu / PUNCH & THE APOSTLES / Luke Doucet & Melissa Mcclelland / The Rouges / Cubrik / ANGEL PIER / Battletorn / Last Mango in Paris / Lonely Ghosts / Bonne Aparte / Snish / Girl In A Thunderbolt / Ezra Bang & Hot Machine / tin can telephone / Rodney Fisher / Charlie Calleja / Rgbs / i!AMYOU / Little Lost David / Meme Love / Nullifier / Baby Venom / Astro Firs / DJ Pdex / Geometri / Hunting the Minotaur / Butcherd Beats / The Electric Flowers / This Tawdry Affair / Cassie & The Cassettes / The Train Chronicles / ROCK i.D. / Northernxposure / Riot Lights Show all bands
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The Great Escape 2009 Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Show Duplicate for May 14, 2009
May 07, 2009
The Ting Tings / MSTRKRFT / The Joy Formidable
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Le Bataclan Paris, Île-de-France, France
May 01, 2009 –
May 03, 2009
Live At Leeds 2009
Mumford & Sons / Bombay Bicycle Club / White Lies / The Maccabees / The Joy Formidable / Wild Beasts / Dan Black / School of Seven Bells / Art Brut / Fionn Regan / James Yuill / Good Shoes / Pulled Apart By Horses / Future of the Left / Tommy Sparks / Dinosaur Pile-Up / Polly Scattergood / General Fiasco / Sky Larkin / 1990s / I LIKE TRAINS / Brontide / Blue Roses / Jeremy Warmsley / Airship / Grammatics / The Robocop Kraus / Skint & Demoralised / Duels / Dartz! / Baddies / Stricken City / Official Secrets Act / Tigers That Talked / The Brute Chorus / MT / Cowtown / Soft Toy Emergency / Club Smith / Wintermute / The Sketches / Diagonal / Ten Bears / Kinch / Humanfly / alan powell / Chickenhawk / Eskimo Twins / Little Death / Holy State / Paul Marshall / To the Bones / Mi Mye / Human Hair / Yonderboy / International Trust / I Concur / Killing Fields of Ontario / Micky P Kerr / Youves / Barringtone / The Old Romantic Killer Band / The Rent Boys / Lord Auch / The Bacchae / Wonderswan / Lady And The Lost Boys / The Yalla Yallas / Monster Killed By Laser / 7 Hertz / Fran Rogers / Guilt Pursuit / DIE VIDEO DIE / Dead Bells / Hurricane Sunday / Marina and the Diamonds / Fight Like Apes / Just Handshakes (We're British) / Simon Pollard Show all bands
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Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Apr 30, 2009
The Cinematics / The Airborne Toxic Event / Erol Alkan / Two Door Cinema Club / Filthy Dukes / Noisettes / Frankmusik / Maps / The Asteroids Galaxy Tour / Red Light Company / Dananananaykroyd / fanfarlo / The Joy Formidable / Fight Like Apes / Mic...
The Cinematics / The Airborne Toxic Event / Erol Alkan / Two Door Cinema Club / Filthy Dukes / Noisettes / Frankmusik / Maps / The Asteroids Galaxy Tour / Red Light Company / Dananananaykroyd / fanfarlo / The Joy Formidable / Fight Like Apes / Micachu / Eugene McGuinness / Team Waterpolo / Golden Silvers / Amazing Baby / The Big Pink / The Temper Trap / Delphic / The Phantom Band / Marina / Chew Lips / Chrome Hoof / Flashguns / The xx / Pulled Apart By Horses / Stricken City / Grampall Jookabox / Threatmantics / Lowline / The Backhanded Compliments / The Jessie Rose Trip / James Yuill / Miss Kittin Show all bands
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Paradiso Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Apr 25, 2009
Camden Crawl
"Camden Crawl" / Datarock / Alessi's Ark / Chew Lips / The Count & Sinden / Dan Black / Fight Like Apes / Flashguns / General Fiasco / GoldieLocks / James Yuill / Kasms / Man Like Me / Marina / Plugs / Sportsday Megaphone / The Big Pink / The Computers / Cordelier / The Invisible / The Joy Formidable / The King Blues / The xx / Three Trapped Tigers / Tommy Sparks / V V / 808 state / Alan Pownall / An Experiment On a Bird In the Air Pump / Banjo Or Freakout / Billy Bragg / BLK JKS / Broadcast 2000 / Cherbourg / Die! Die! Die! / Elviin / Eugene McGuinness / Everything Everything / Frankmusik / Gold Teeth / The Golden Silvers / Heartbreak / Hexes / Hot Leg / Innerpartysystem / Ipso Facto (UK) / Josh weller / Kasabian / King Creosote / Lion Club / Little Boots / Newham Generals / Ou Est Le Swimming Pool / Shitty Limits / Televised Crimewave / The Dead Formats / The Fall / The Laurel Collective / The Maccabees / The View / Threatmantics / Toddla T Show all bands
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Various Venues London, England, United Kingdom

Photos from 2009 View All 2009 Photos

Leeds Festival 2009 on Aug 28, 2009 [185-small]

Leeds Festival 2009
Aug 28 - 30, 2009
 Wetherby, England, United Kingdom
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Southsea Fest 2009 on Sep 19, 2009 [487-small]

Southsea Fest 2009
Sep 19, 2009
 Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom
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Reading Festival 2009 on Aug 28, 2009 [558-small]

Reading Festival 2009
Aug 28 - 30, 2009
 Reading, England, United Kingdom
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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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