The Joy Formidable's 2011 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 128 concerts in 2011 (Page 5)

Date Concert Venue Location
May 29, 2011
Dot To Dot Festival 2011
Ed Sheeran / The Naked and Famous / SBTRKT / Jake Bugg / Cults / Hurts / Benjamin Francis Leftwich / The Joy Formidable / We Are Scientists / Wolf Gang / Niki & The Dove / Guillemots / …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead / King Charles / Morning Parade / Braids / Is Tropical / Dom / Royal Republic / To Kill A King / Alpines / Lanterns on the Lake / The Phoenix Foundation / Childhood / Allie Moss / Dananananaykroyd / Veto / Blawan / Holidays / Elias / Various Cruelties / Trophy Wife / Alessi's Ark / All The Young / Fixers / Swimming / Colourmusic / Hyetal / The Lines / Harleighblu / Get People / Ronika / Jake Morley / Stagecoach / Becoming Real / Frontiers / Lux Lisbon / Spotlight Kid / T.E.E.D / Baby Godzilla / Born Blonde / Chakras / I Dream In Colour / Kogumaza / Hot Horizons / ROMANCE (UK) / Manière des Bohémiens / The Suzukis / Jimmy The Squirrel / Foreign Office / Yaaks / Nina Smith / I Only Date Models / Arse Full Of Chips / YUNIOSHI / Satsuma / Lee Gough / Zebedy Rays / Long Dead Signal / Emily Davies / Delta Sun / Alex Hel / Royal Gala / Tom & the Tides / Will Jeffrey / Basstoneslap Show all bands
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Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
May 28, 2011
Dot To Dot Festival 2011
Ed Sheeran / The Naked and Famous / Ben Howard / SBTRKT / Cults / Hurts / Benjamin Francis Leftwich / The Joy Formidable / We Are Scientists / Wolf Gang / Guillemots / …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead / Braids / Dom / Royal Republic / To Kill A King / Alpines / The Phoenix Foundation / Allie Moss / Veto / Blawan / Various Cruelties / The Fauns / T.E.E.D / The Naturals / Born Blonde / The Ouija Birds / Scarlet Rascal and the Trainwreck / Swimming Show all bands
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Bristol, England, United Kingdom
May 21, 2011
Manic Street Preachers / The Joy Formidable
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Cardiff Indoor Arena Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
May 19, 2011
Manic Street Preachers / The Joy Formidable
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Wolverhampton Civic Hall Wolverhampton, England, United Kingdom
May 14, 2011 –
May 15, 2011
BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend 2011
Bruno Mars / Calvin Harris / Lady Gaga / Ellie Goulding / Arctic Monkeys / Black Eyed Peas / Foo Fighters / Panic! At the Disco / The Strokes / The Script / Jessie J / Two Door Cinema Club / Cage The Elephant / Swedish House Mafia / Taio Cruz / Olly Murs / Tinie Tempah / NERO / The Wombats / The Vaccines / My Chemical Romance / Plan B / Chase & Status / DEV / Friendly Fires / Nicole Scherzinger / Noah & The Whale / Katy B / Rizzle Kicks / The Joy Formidable / Professor Green / Wretch 32 / Everything Everything / Magnetic Man / Devlin / Yasmin / Pete Tong / Riva Starr / Toddla T / Pulled Apart By Horses / Jaguar Skills / Judge Jules / Kissy Sell Out / Polarsets / MistaJam / Annie Mac / Zane Lowe / Skream & Benga / Jaymo & Andy George / Masters In France / Kutski / Let's Buy Happiness / Luke Bingham / Friends Electric / Rob da Bank / Among Brothers / DJ cameo / Target / Westwood / Colt 45 / Saturday Night Gym Club / Fabio And Grooverider / Birds Vs Planes / MOPP. / Yaaks / Semtex / Linc / Fiona Clayton / BARON VON ALiAS / Aaron Delahunty / MyElectrik / Pete Tong Vs Vernon Kay / DJ Vimto & Jah Digga Show all bands
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Carlisle, UK
May 13, 2011
Manic Street Preachers / The Joy Formidable
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Markthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
May 12, 2011 –
May 14, 2011
The Great Escape 2011
Ed Sheeran / Foster The People / Bastille / Sufjan Stevens / Grouplove / Young the Giant / Ben Howard / The Naked and Famous / Daughter / Little Dragon / The Vaccines / SBTRKT / Cults / DJ Shadow / Warpaint / Friendly Fires / K.Flay / Max Richter / Katy B / Twin Shadow / Frank Turner / The Antlers / The Joy Formidable / Villagers / Lucy Rose / Holy Ghost / Okkervil River / White Denim / Yuck / Dustin O'Halloran / The Jezabels / Wolf Gang / Anna Calvi / Cloud Control / Ghostpoet / Kyla La Grange / Guillemots / Dry the River / Alela Diane / Matthew and the Atlas / The Secret Sisters / Said the Whale / Suuns / Actress / Gang Gang Dance / Art Brut / The Soft Moon / Star Slinger / Braids / EMA / Mona / Hey Rosetta! / Hauschka / Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows / Seekae / Dark Dark Dark / Tribes / DZ Deathrays / Anoraak / Dent May / Kitten / Young Empires / John Cooper Clarke / Breton / Dutch Uncles / Lanterns on the Lake / Big Deal / I Am Oak / The Wave Pictures / The Phoenix Foundation / Deep Sea Arcade / Factory Floor / TEETH / Bleeding Knees Club / Luke Abbott / Team Me / Fear of Men / PVT / Moddi / Marcus Foster / Dels / Frankie & The Heartstrings / Rachel Sermanni / Holidays / Josh T. Pearson / Smoke Fairies / The Sound of Arrows / Alice Gold / Brasstronaut / 2:54 / Trophy Wife / Fight Like Apes / Fredrika Stahl / The History of Apple Pie / Winter Gloves / DM Stith / AnR / Treefight For Sunlight / Hobbie Stuart / Viva Brother / P.S. I Love You / Evergreen Official / Heathers / Fiction / Seams / Mondkopf / Echo Lake / The Heartbreaks / LCMDF / Anita Blay / Gallops / In-Flight Safety / Woodhands / Worship / Paris Suit Yourself / Team Ghost / Spark / Die! Die! Die! / Two Wounded Birds / Lewis Floyd Henry / Rebeka / Idiot Glee / Let's Buy Happiness / David J. Roch / Nedry / worriedaboutsatan / General / Visions of Trees / Dad Rocks! / Bonjay / My First Tooth / Black Lungs / Bonfires / Freeze the Atlantic / Gable / The Victorian English Gentlemens Club / Becoming Real / Tripwires / Dan Parsons / Oh So Quiet / Lucy Swann / The Mountains & the Trees / Melodica, Melody and Me / Paper Crows / Delta Maid / Us Baby Bear Bones / Marques / We Are The Physics / Modern Superstitions / Marina Gasolina / Malpas / Jumping Ships / Look, Stranger! / I Dream In Colour / Babe, Terror / NLF3 / Nicholas Stevenson / Hot Horizons / CAP PAS CAP / Skinny Machines / Deadwax / Cat Matador / Folie Ordinaire / Young Empire / Louis Abbott / Anoorak / Megan Goodwin Show all bands
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The Great Escape 2011 Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Show Duplicate for May 12, 2011
Apr 29, 2011
The Joy Formidable / The Lonely Forest
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Webster Hall New York, New York, United States
Apr 27, 2011
The Joy Formidable / The Lonely Forest
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The Smiling Moose Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Apr 26, 2011
The Lonely Forest / The Joy Formidable / The Naked and Famous Grog Shop Cleveland Heights, Ohio, United States
Apr 23, 2011
The Lonely Forest / The Joy Formidable / Soft Reeds
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The Riot Room Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Apr 22, 2011
The Joy Formidable / The Lonely Forest Luminary Center For The Arts St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Apr 20, 2011
The Joy Formidable / The Lonely Forest Launchpad Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Apr 19, 2011
The Joy Formidable / The Lonely Forest
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Rhythm Room Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Apr 16, 2011
Coachella Music Festival
Arcade Fire / Empire of the Sun / The Felice Brothers / The Swell Season / The Kills / Bright Eyes / Elbow / The New Pornographers / Broken Social Scene / Jenny and Johnny / Erykah Badu / Delta Spirit / The Radio Dept. / Foals / Freelance Whales / Thao with the Get Down Stay Down / The Joy Formidable / The Love Language / Mumford & Sons / The Tallest Man On Earth Show all bands
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Empire Polo Club Indio, California, United States
Apr 15, 2011 –
Apr 17, 2011
Coachella 2011
Off! / One Day As a Lion / Patricio / Kanye West / Sammy Bliss / Jesse Wright / Sam Xl / Mumford & Sons / Perry & Etty Vs. Chris Cox / DJ Michelle Bass / Ellie Goulding / The Pains of Being Pure at Heart / Wiz Khalifa / The Black Keys / Skrillex / Foster the People / Arcade Fire / The Strokes / Fun. / Two Door Cinema Club / The National / Empire of the Sun / Tame Impala / Neon Trees / Jimmy Eat World / Chemical Brothers / Miguel / Cold War Kids / Cee Lo Green / Foals / Tinie Tempah / Duran Duran / Afrojack / Interpol / Crystal Castles / Bright Eyes / Ratatat / Angus & Julia Stone / Phantogram / Robyn / Marina and the Diamonds / Animal Collective / Erykah Badu / City and Colour / SBTRKT / Chromeo / Cut Copy / Plan B / Scissor Sisters / Elbow / Sleigh Bells / PJ Harvey / The Kills / The Drums / Broken Social Scene / Chase & Status / Ms. Lauryn Hill / Best Coast / The Tallest Man On Earth / Duck Sauce / Cults / Warpaint / Flogging Molly / Axwell / Jack's Mannequin / Eliza Doolittle / Hurts / The Joy Formidable / The New Pornographers / A-Trak / Fedde le Grand / Brandon Flowers / Twin Shadow / Steve Angello / The Bloody Beetroots / Boys Noize / Paul van Dyk / CSS / Gogol Bordello / Laidback Luke / Excision / Phosphorescent / Suede / Yelle / Delta Spirit / Raphael Saadiq / The Presets / Trentemøller / Death from Above 1979 / YACHT / Freelance Whales / Magnetic Man / Mount Kimbie / Leftfield / Chuckie / Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti / The Radio Dept. / She Wants Revenge / OFWGKTA / Dirty Vegas / Emancipator / Trampled by Turtles / Fat Freddy's Drop / Nosaj Thing / Kele / Delorean / POP ETC / Good Old War / Glasser / HEALTH / Here We Go Magic / TOKiMONSTA / Wire / Menomena / High Contrast / Sasha / Ryan Leslie / The Swell Season / Caspa / Nas & Damian Marley / Gypsy and the Cat / !!! (Chk Chk Chk) / Ozomatli / Titus Andronicus / The Rural Alberta Advantage / 12th Planet / Cold Cave / Thao & The Get Down Stay Down / Daedelus / Jack Beats / Green Velvet / Paper Diamond / Big Audio Dynamite / The Felice Brothers / Shpongle / Caifanes / Lil B / Bomba Estéreo / Joy Orbison / Mariachi El Bronx / Clare Maguire / Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears / The Aquabats / DJ Zinc / Francis & the Lights / Kraddy / Rye Rye / Breakage / Gayngs / Monarchy / Riva Starr / Scala & Kolacny Brothers / Andy C / Sander Kleinenberg / Lightning Bolt / Jenny and Johnny / Joachim Garraud / Los Bunkers / Erick Morillo / Mala / Thunderball / Moving Units / The Twelves / Sven Vath / Beardyman / Kode9 / Jake's / Lorn / The Love Language / DJ Hype / GQ / Henry Clay People / Zed Bias / Ramadanman / NiT GriT / DJ Dan / Fistful of Mercy / Govinda / Emicida / DJ Marky / The London Suede / Freq Nasty / Brandt Brauer Frick / Roska / Electric Touch / an-ten-nae / Ras G / DJ Kentaro / Take / Kyle Hall / Siren / Terror Danjah / Gladkill / Donald Glaude / Goth-Trad / Goldrush / Saqi / Sugarpill / Ana Sia / Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group / JD Samson & MEN / Stephan Jacobs / Gordon Downie / Ee / Mary Anne Hobbs / Don Letts / R.L.S / Lucent Dossier Experience / Timonkey / 新裤子 (New Pants) / Metaphase / La'reda / Alf Alpha / DJ Heavygrinder / Jupit3r / White Noize / Karim So / Kings Of Leon / Cage the Elephant Show all bands
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Unknown venue San Diego, California, United States
Show Duplicates for Apr 15, 2011
Apr 14, 2011
The Joy Formidable / The Lonely Forest
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Bottom of the Hill San Francisco, California, United States
Apr 12, 2011
The Joy Formidable / The Lonely Forest The Crocodile Seattle, Washington, United States
Apr 11, 2011
The Lonely Forest / The Joy Formidable
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Mississippi Studios Portland, Oregon, United States
Apr 09, 2011
The Joy Formidable / The Lonely Forest Kilby Court Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Videos from 2011 View All 2011 Videos

The Lonely Forest / The Joy Formidable / Soft Reeds
Apr 23, 2011
 Kansas City, Missouri, United States
  Added by Purlin7

Reading Festival 2011
Aug 27 - 29, 2011
 Reading, England, United Kingdom
  Added by Concert Archives 3

Photos from 2011 View All 2011 Photos

Kanrocksas Music Festival 2011 on Aug 5, 2011 [201-small]

Kanrocksas Music Festival 2011
Aug 5, 2011
 Kansas City, Kansas, United States
  Uploaded by Tom Kennedy

Kanrocksas Music Festival 2011 on Aug 5, 2011 [202-small]

Kanrocksas Music Festival 2011
Aug 5, 2011
 Kansas City, Kansas, United States
  Uploaded by Tom Kennedy

Kanrocksas Music Festival 2011 on Aug 5, 2011 [203-small]

Kanrocksas Music Festival 2011
Aug 5, 2011
 Kansas City, Kansas, United States
  Uploaded by Tom Kennedy

Kanrocksas Music Festival 2011 on Aug 5, 2011 [204-small]

Kanrocksas Music Festival 2011
Aug 5, 2011
 Kansas City, Kansas, United States
  Uploaded by Tom Kennedy

Kanrocksas Music Festival 2011 on Aug 5, 2011 [205-small]

Kanrocksas Music Festival 2011
Aug 5, 2011
 Kansas City, Kansas, United States
  Uploaded by Tom Kennedy

Kanrocksas Music Festival 2011 on Aug 5, 2011 [206-small]

Kanrocksas Music Festival 2011
Aug 5, 2011
 Kansas City, Kansas, United States
  Uploaded by Tom Kennedy

Kanrocksas Music Festival 2011 on Aug 5, 2011 [207-small]

Kanrocksas Music Festival 2011
Aug 5, 2011
 Kansas City, Kansas, United States
  Uploaded by Tom Kennedy

Cage The Elephant / Sleeper Agent / The Joy Formidable on Dec 13, 2011 [350-small]

Cage The Elephant / Sleeper Agent / The Joy Formidable
Dec 13, 2011
 St. Louis, Missouri, United States
  Uploaded by Rick W

Kanrocksas on Aug 5, 2011 [359-small]

Kanrocksas
Aug 5 - 6, 2011
 Kansas City, Kansas, United States
  Uploaded by Rick W

Foo Fighters / Social Distortion / The Joy Formidable on Nov 7, 2011 [640-small]

Foo Fighters / Social Distortion / The Joy Formidable
Nov 7, 2011
 Duluth, Georgia, United States
  Uploaded by Josh5180

The Joy Formidable on Mar 29, 2011 [850-small]

The Joy Formidable
Mar 29, 2011
 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
  Uploaded by Pte5

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
  Uploaded by Carlos Araujo

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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