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".

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The Joy Formidable Tours & Concerts (Updated for 2026) (Page 37)

Date Concert Venue Location
Nov 11, 2011
Social Distortion / The Joy Formidable / Foo Fighters

wasting Light Tour

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Verizon Center Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Nov 10, 2011
Foo Fighters / Social Distortion / The Joy Formidable
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Wells Fargo Center Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Nov 08, 2011
Foo Fighters / Social Distortion / The Joy Formidable

Wasting Light Tour

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Time Warner Cable Arena Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
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Nov 07, 2011
Social Distortion / The Joy Formidable / Foo Fighters / Luan Santana
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Infinite Energy Arena Duluth, Georgia, United States
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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 Wolf Gang Kill Them All (OFWGKTA) / Henry Rollins / Reggie Watts / Brian Posehn / Upright Citizens Brigade / M83 / Blonde Redhead / Girls / Hum / Hot Snakes / The Murder City Devils / Black Lips / Boris / Diplo / Flying Lotus / Neon Indian / Rakim / Tune-Yards / Osees / 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 / Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All (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 / 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 / OBN III'S / Fat Tony 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
Funeral Suits / The Joy Formidable 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
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Oct 20, 2011
The Joy Formidable

The Big Roar

Riverside Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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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Òran Mór Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Oct 18, 2011
The Joy Formidable
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The Limelight Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Oct 16, 2011
Social Distortion / Foo Fighters / The Joy Formidable
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TD Garden Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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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
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Oct 13, 2011
The Joy Formidable / [Spunge] / And So I Watch You from Afar / Creatures of Love
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O2 Institute Birmingham Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Oct 01, 2011
The Joy Formidable

WFNX Disorientation

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Lansdowne Pub Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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Concerts Per Year:

2026 21 concerts
2025 6 concerts
2023 27 concerts
2022 56 concerts
2021 18 concerts
2020 3 concerts
2019 82 concerts
2018 48 concerts
2017 24 concerts
2016 137 concerts
2015 23 concerts
2014 14 concerts
2013 161 concerts
2012 78 concerts
2011 173 concerts
2010 118 concerts
2009 112 concerts
2008 25 concerts
2007 1 concert
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