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".

The Joy Formidable Tours & Concerts (Page 42)

Date Concert Venue Location
Jan 24, 2009
Friends of Manchester Festival
The Joy Formidable / Lucy & The Caterpillar / The Black Knights / Gideon Conn / Hayley Faye Band / Wu If Wu If / Kid British / Silverclub / Jake Flowers
Jabez Clegg Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Jan 09, 2009
Passion Pit / The Joy Formidable Terminal 5 New York, New York, United States
Jan 08, 2009
Passion Pit / The Rural Alberta Advantage / The Joy Formidable Terminal 5 New York, New York, United States
Nov 28, 2008
The Joy Formidable / Troops of Mafeking / Hi Alert The Box Crewe, England, United Kingdom
Nov 07, 2008
The Joy Formidable
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Night & Day Café Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Oct 04, 2008
The Joy Formidable / White Lies The Faversham Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Sep 24, 2008
White Lies / Post War Years / The Joy Formidable Little Civic Wolverhampton, England, United Kingdom
Sep 22, 2008
White Lies / The Joy Formidable / Post War Years
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Night & Day Café Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Aug 22, 2008 –
Aug 24, 2008
Leeds Festival 2008
The Killers / Metallica / MGMT / Cage The Elephant / Vampire Weekend / Florence + the Machine / Bring Me The Horizon / Queens of the Stone Age / Avenged Sevenfold / All Time Low / Foals / Plain White T's / Bloc Party / The Wombats / Justice / Rage Against The Machine / Bullet for My Valentine / Bombay Bicycle Club / Santigold / Crystal Castles / Dizzee Rascal / Tenacious D / The Fratellis / The Raconteurs / The Ting Tings / Taking Back Sunday / Pendulum / Biffy Clyro / Dropkick Murphys / Editors / Chromeo / The Kills / Yeasayer / You Me At Six / White Lies / Friendly Fires / Manic Street Preachers / The Last Shadow Puppets / Wiley / Flogging Molly / Digitalism / The Gaslight Anthem / Frank Turner / Thrice / The Joy Formidable / Alkaline Trio / We Are Scientists / Feeder / Pennywise / Goldfinger / Simian Mobile Disco / Serj Tankian / Less Than Jake / Mindless Self Indulgence / CSS / Babyshambles / Mystery Jets / Wild Beasts / The Cribs / Glasvegas / Alexisonfire / White Denim / Black Kids / The Subways / Anti-Flag / The Pigeon Detectives / Los Campesinos! / Attack Attack! / Jack Peñate / Seasick Steve / Does It Offend You, Yeah? / The Enemy / Lethal Bizzle / Hadouken! / MxPx / Sea Power / Ida Maria / Blood Red Shoes / The Dresden Dolls / The Automatic / Dirty Pretty Things / Set Your Goals / Fucked Up / Holy Fuck / Tiger Army / The Rascals / The Shoes / Gallows / Kids In Glass Houses / Adam Green / Late of the Pier / dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip / Black Tide / Stephen Lynch / One Night Only / Cancer Bats / The Audition / The Duke Spirit / Emmy the Great / Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly / Louis XIV / H2O / These New Puritans / The Whip / Teenagers / The King Blues / Jeffrey Lewis / Lightspeed Champion / The Blackout / Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band / Pete and The Pirates / John Cooper Clarke / Dinosaur Pile-Up / Young Knives / Natty / Pulled Apart By Horses / Henry Rollins / Future of the Left / Beans on Toast / Elliot Minor / The Unseen / The Briggs / General Fiasco / Johnny Foreigner / The Death Set / Loved Ones / Twisted Wheel / Robots In Disguise / Fight Like Apes / Broken Records / Cajun Dance Party / Esser / Hot Club de Paris / Red Light Company / The Metros / Ian Moore / Random Hand / Jeremy Warmsley / Flashguns / Thomas Tantrum / Dinosaur / Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong / The Hungry Ghosts / Skeletons / Grammatics / Fighting With Wire / Lovvers / Matt Reed / That Fucking Tank / In Case of Fire / Be Your Own Pet / Teenagersintokyo / Youthmovies / XX Teens / Underground Railroad / Blackhole / Tripwires / Sergeant / Pens / Ipso Facto / Eureka Machines / Milton Jones / Wintermute / Fangs / The New York Fund / Hexes / So So Modern / Black Acid / Make Model / Collapsing Cities / Humour / These Monsters / The Maybes / George Pringle / Our Fold / Leeds Festival Chorus / Smash 'n' Grab / The Bacchae / The Situationists / Phill Jupitus / Brendon Burns / Adam Hills / I Concur / Sean Walsh / The Wallbirds / Robin Ince / Love Ends Disaster! / Out From Animals / Al Pitcher / Jason Rouse / Hifi Handgrenades / Chris Hicks / Fox Cubs / Fran Rodgers / Darlings Of The Splitscreen / razmataz lorry excitement / Reading / Kid Id / Pete Johansson / Adam Bloom / Loqui / Dockers MC / Andi Osho / Tiger Shadow / Steve Gribbin / Excentral Tempest / The Last People on Earth / Solus Locus / Christian Reilly / Tim Clare / Byron Vincent / Sleeveface / Jarred Christmas / Rob Rouse / The Cherry Cobb Cartel / Pile Up! / Trevor Lock / Ross Sutherland / Arnab Chanda / Steve Weiner / Dougie Dunlop / The Ff'ers / Barry Castagnola / Fur Tv / Daniel Townes / The Music / Jubilee Show all bands
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Leeds Festival 2008 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Show Duplicates for Aug 22, 2008
Jul 17, 2008 –
Jul 20, 2008
Latitude Festival 2008
Death Cab for Cutie / Franz Ferdinand / Foals / Lykke Li / Sigur Rós / Blondie / Interpol / Crystal Castles / Metronomy / Elbow / White Lies / Noah & The Whale / Black Lips / Patrick Watson / The Joy Formidable / The Breeders / Buzzcocks / Nada Surf / The Coral / Sébastien Tellier / Wild Beasts / Okkervil River / Glasvegas / Black Kids / The Go! Team / The Mars Volta / Joanna Newsom / Punch Brothers / Soko / Anya Marina / Slow Club / Seasick Steve / Amadou & Mariam / Johnny Flynn / Sea Power / Ida Maria / Martha Wainwright / Guillemots / Grinderman / Tindersticks / dEUS / Animal Kingdom / Clinic / The Twilight Sad / I Am Kloot / The House of Love / James Yuill / Murder By Death / These New Puritans / Julian Cope / The Irrepressibles / Howling Bells / Those Dancing Days / The Datsuns / The Wave Pictures / Wave Machines / Errors / Beth Rowley / Fields / Malcolm Middleton / Polly Scattergood / Jonquil / Paul Heaton / Johnny Foreigner / Wallis Bird / The Aliens / Broken Records / Sky Larkin / Gravenhurst / Kyte / The School / Cap'tain / Anita Blay / Magistrates / Thomas Tantrum / Stewart Lee / Billy the Kid / Sam Isaac / Bearsuit / Grammatics / Lovvers / Scheme / The Kabeedies / Heloise & The Savoir Faire / Beggars / Team Waterpolo / Tim and Sam's Tim and the Sam Band with Tim and Sam / Gideon Conn / Rod Thomas / Cheeky Cheeky And The Nosebleeds / Bookhouse Boys / Rosie & The Goldbug / Swanton Bombs / This City / Beep Seals / Truckers of Husk / Elle s'appelle / a.P.A.t.T. / Nic Dawson Kelly / Tallulah Rendall / The Satin Peaches / Otis Lee Crenshaw / Hold Fire / Derwyddon Dr. Gonzo / Robin Ince / KateGoes / Island Line / The Godwits / Matthew Sawyer & the Ghosts / A Line / The Voluntary Butler Show all bands
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Henham Park Southwold, England, United Kingdom
Jun 01, 2008
Middlesbrough Music Live 2008
You Me At Six / Friendly Fires / Noah & The Whale / Pnau / The Joy Formidable / Ladyhawke / Ash / Cartel / Black Kids / Slow Club / Late of the Pier / dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip / One Night Only / The King Blues / Howling Bells / Delays / Sons and Daughters / Natty / Future of the Left / Infadels / Rolo Tomassi / Esser / Jack McManus / Glamour Of The Kill / Go:Audio / Outlaw / Red Light Company / Tellison / The Hot Melts / Billy the Kid / Sam Isaac / Royworld / Sundown / The Chapman Family / Slaves to Gravity / The Anomalies / Team Waterpolo / Outcry Collective / Ipso Facto / Parka / Bookhouse Boys / Lifeless / Das Wanderlust / SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS / Hijak Oscar / Be Quiet Shout Loud / Andy Jones / The Lexingtons / The Ankles / The Master Colony / Project Alpha / Hijack Oscar / LazyBaby / The Misled Heroes / 2 Many Units / Beyond This Oath / Florence + the Machine Show all bands
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Town Centre Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom
May 17, 2008
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly / Luke Leighfield / The Joy Formidable
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Westbourne Studios London, England, United Kingdom
May 15, 2008
Stag & Dagger Festival 2008
Gotye / Diplo / Hot Chip / Example / A-Trak / The Joy Formidable / Atlas Sound / Slow Club / Mother Mother / The Shoes / Daniel Avery / The Duke Spirit / The Invisible / Archie Bronson Outfit / The Tough Alliance / The Octopus Project / Micachu / Operator Please / Natty / Times New Viking / Jonathan Jeremiah / Jimmy Edgar / Muscles / Bang Gang / PVT / The C90s / Magic Wands / Das Pop / Telepathe / Jill Barber / Smoke Fairies / Golden Silvers / 1990s / Ed Banger Records / Filthy Dukes / The Bumblebeez / Cadence Weapon / Zombie Zombie / Harmonic 313 / Drums of Death / Cocknbullkid / Tubelord / Magistrates / Quiet Village / Blue Rose Code / Duchess Says / The Oscillation / Kid Harpoon / Primary 1 / Mira Calix / Leon Jean-Marie / Real Ones / Lovvers / Sister / Laurel Collective / Skull / Toby / Turner Cody / Jay Reatard / The Strange Death of Liberal England / Munch Munch / Sian Alice Group / Rod Thomas / Semifinalists / Cheeky Cheeky And The Nosebleeds / Cats In Paris / Dead Kids / Mouth / The Blisters / Collapsing Cities / The Displacements / Christopher D. Ashley / Baseball Furies / Personality Crisis / Playdead / The Pan I Am / Lord Auch / Lost in Paris / Ok Tokyo / One Deck & Popular / Wave Machine / The Moon Music Orchestra / Skull Juice / Cold As Ice / Casper C / Chik Budo / Marc Hughes / Ciara Haidar / George Lamb / Young And Lost / Ed Banger Records Party Crew / Edbanger Records / Show Your Bones / The Mike Strutter Group / Moshi Moshi DJs / Ok Tokoyo / Edward J Hicks / Crispin Dior / Piers Martin / Allez Allez Djs / The Spinney / Ciara Haider Show all bands
London, England, United Kingdom
Mar 10, 2008
The Joy Formidable The Roadhouse Manchester, England, United Kingdom

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Mar 29, 2011
 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Jul 8, 2013
 Buffalo, New York, United States
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 New York, New York, United States
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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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