The Joy Formidable's 2008 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
Nov 28, 2008
The Joy Formidable / Troops of Mafeking / Hi Alert The Box Crewe, England, United Kingdom
Nov 20, 2008
The Uglysuit / Dear Reader / The Joy Formidable The Lexington London, England, United Kingdom
Nov 15, 2008
The Joy Formidable

Sŵn Festival

Clwb Ifor Bach Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Nov 14, 2008 –
Nov 16, 2008
The Joy Formidable SWN Festival 2008 Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Nov 13, 2008
The Boy Least Likely To / Clinic / High Contrast / Pete and The Pirates / Stephen Fretwell / Legowelt / Young Marble Giants / Johnny Foreigner / Goldie Lookin Chain / Dananananaykroyd / James Yuill / Skinnyman / The Joy Formidable / Thomas Tantrum...
The Boy Least Likely To / Clinic / High Contrast / Pete and The Pirates / Stephen Fretwell / Legowelt / Young Marble Giants / Johnny Foreigner / Goldie Lookin Chain / Dananananaykroyd / James Yuill / Skinnyman / The Joy Formidable / Thomas Tantrum / Euros Childs / Micachu / Future of the Left / Indian Jewelry / Eugene McGuinness / Rolo Tomassi / The School / Chipmunk / Broken Records / Golden Silvers / Agaskodo Teliverek / volcano! / Durrty Goodz / Amazing Baby / The Big Pink / Tubelord / It Hugs Back / Sportsday Megaphone / Jay Jay Pistolet / SJ Esau / Chew Lips / Cats In Paris / Little My / Acid Casuals / Klaus Kinski / Flashguns / Das Wanderlust / Pete Greenwood / Casiokids / Pulled Apart By Horses / Dan Marshall / Little Comets / Mac / Richard James / Camera / Aidan Smith / King Cannibal / Threatmantics / Fernhill / Rod Thomas / Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man / Rob da Bank / Vito / Yucatan / The Afternoons / Serafina Steer / Peggy Sue / The Chapman Family / Friends Electric / Pagan Wanderer Lu / Portasound / Thomas Truax / Radio Luxembourg / The Yellow Moon Band / Stray Borders / ORCOP / Lifting Gear Engineer / The Voluntary Butler Scheme / Hemme Fatale / Cate Le Bon / The Lovely Eggs / Josh weller / Mc Mabon / Picture Books In Winter / Skinny Man / Truckers of Husk / The Hidden Persuader / dufraine / Clare Maguire / silence at sea / Ectogram / Sweet Baboo / The Evils / PSI / Genod Droog / T.E.E.D / Muscle Club / cymbient / mr huw / Martin Carr / Gallops / Chrome Kids / Dead Residents / Colorama / Connan Mockasin / Paul Hawkins / Derwyddon Dr. Gonzo / METABEATS / Telegram From The Queen / John Mouse / Zwolf / Gwyneth Glyn / Mr Duke / Y Diwygiad / Skátar / Fredrick Stanley Star / Seindorff / Alex Dingley / The Last Republic / Mc Saizmundo / The Stilletoes / Little Eris / Georgia Ruth Williams / wrightoid / Fred Jones / Nick Lewis / The Blue Wall / LLWYD / The Ash and The Oak / Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences / John Head / Zail / New Tea Party / Jen Jeniro / Right Hand Left Hand / Yr Ods / Sild / Ffred Jones / Frederick Stanley Star / Nia Morgan / Butterflies With Beards / Sophie Mac / Cyrion / Danblagroyd / Eilir Pierce / BeatboxFozzy / attack + defend / James St. James / Random Elbow Pain / Pixel H8 Show all bands
Citywide Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Nov 07, 2008
The Joy Formidable
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Night & Day Café Manchester, 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 26, 2008
Fucked Up / The Molotovs / The Joy Formidable / Ra Ra Riot
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Madame JoJo's London, England, United Kingdom
Aug 24, 2008
The Joy Formidable

Leeds Festival

Bramham Park Leeds, 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 and 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 and 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 / Ross Noble 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 and 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

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Reading Festival 2008 on Aug 22, 2008 [401-small]

Reading Festival 2008
Aug 22 - 24, 2008
 Reading, England, United Kingdom
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Leeds Festival 2008 on Aug 22, 2008 [110-small]

Leeds Festival 2008
Aug 22 - 24, 2008
 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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