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 24)

Date Concert Venue Location
Mar 21, 2014
The Psychedelic Furs / Phantogram / The Joy Formidable / Twin Shadow / YACHT / Roky Erickson / The Black Angels / The Gories / SZA / Tamaryn
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Villita Assembly Building San Antonio, Texas, United States
Mar 20, 2014 –
Mar 23, 2014
Treefort Music Fest 2014
ODESZA / RJD2 / Run the Jewels / The Joy Formidable / Iamsu! / Poliça / Built to Spill / Killer Mike / Dan Deacon / This Will Destroy You / The Cave Singers / Blockhead / Cody Chesnutt / El-P / Horse Feathers / The Budos Band / Chastity Belt / Mount Eerie / Mt. Joy / Sweater Beats / Rubblebucket / Robot Koch / La Luz / Dwarves / Gift Of Gab / Phutureprimitive / Brothertiger / Ishi / Mimicking Birds / Nurses / The Boys / Saintseneca / Milagres / Perfect Pussy / Manatee Commune / Rituals of Mine / Mr. Gnome / THEESatisfaction / Magic Sword / Fever the Ghost / Poison Idea / Sallie Ford / Shivas / Roadkill Ghost Choir / Cataldo / Eleven / paper bird / Shades / Au / The Divers / Con Bro Chill / The Entrance Band / SubRosa / New Madrid / Pontiak / Unlimited Gravity / Solander / Tangerine / Purling Hiss / Kris Orlowski / Naomi Punk / Jeffrey Martin / Summer Cannibals / Dude York / Eternal Tapestry / Warm Soda / The Heligoats / Polyrhythmics / The Lower 48 / Hollow Wood / Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt / The Americans / Yvette / Knight Riderz / Meat Market / East of the Wall / Eagle Twin / The Parson Red Heads / Rin Tin Tiger / Fly Moon Royalty / Rare Monk / 1d / Special Explosion / Iska Dhaaf / Tele Novella / Camp / Aan / Tango Alpha Tango / Thanks / Philippe Bronchtein / Ravenna Woods / Finn Riggins / SW/MM/NG / Calico / Vhol / Slam Dunk / Genders / Boyfrndz / Rose Quartz / Vikesh Kapoor / The Grizzled Mighty / Duck. Little Brother, Duck / The Teens / L'anarchiste / Hobosexual / Polecat / Jesus Sons / Apple Horse / Twin Steps / Hustle and Drone / Bearcubbin' / Wooden Indian Burial Ground / Run On Sentence / Animal Eyes / Myko / Inner Oceans / Sherpa / Messy Sparkles / Disco Doom / Gaytheist / Square Peg Round Hole / Tartufi / Judson Claiborne / Max Pain & the Groovies / Battlehooch / Caustic resin / The Hand / Nighttrain / Rusty Maples / Holiday Friends / The Kitchen / Virgil / Alturas / Stranger Danger / The Great Wilderness / Sama Dams / Cy Dune / Modern Kin / Mike Coykendall / Midday Veil / Magic Mouth / Play Date / Street Fever / Hive Mind / Colfax Speed Queen / Hillfolk Noir / Future Twin / Blue Lotus / Useless / Arrington De Dionyso’s Malaikat Dan Singa / The Rich Hands / Matt Hopper & the Roman Candles / Country Club / The Raven and the Writing Desk / Friends and Family / The Magpies / Psychic Rites / Cathedral Pearls / Frugal Father / Hooves / Dark Seas / Sun Angle / Rubicon 7 / Customary / Uzala / Edmond Dantès / The Funs / Clarke and the Himselfs / Decoded / Mise / Piss Test / Sun Blood Stories / Like a Villain / The BGP / The Lures / Marshall McLean Band / The Jackalope Saints / Organik Time Machine / Minot / Confluence / Tiburones / Piranhas Bc / Vapour / Light Thieves / Karaoke From Hell / Nunnery / Fires in France / Monogamy Party / Fivestar / Marshall Poole / Apostrophes / Couches / Pause for the Cause / Huck Notari / Sad Horse / Jeff Crosby & The Refugees / Lake Island / Grand Falconer / Ssssnake / Coastwest Unrest / Atomic Mama / Your Rival / Sleepy Seeds / Dirty Moogs / Red Hands Black Feet / Lounge on Fire / Blvrred Vision / Ned Evett / Reflektion / Afrosonics / Lust-Cats of the Gutters / Zebroids / For the Sake Of / Grandma Kelsey / Dedicated Servers / Give Chase / Thomas Paul / Revolt Revolt / The Warm Hair / illest*lyricists / Dark Matter Transfer / Sheep Among Wolves / Jupiter Holiday / Melting / Sheep Bridge Jumpers / Gallons / Demoni / Junior Rocket Scientist / A Sea of Glass / New Transit / Stoneseed / Innocent Man / Toy Zoo / Aaron Mark Brown / Illoom / Mississippi Marshall / Big Tits / Blackcloud / A Seasonal Disguise / Search Lights / Deep Creeps / The Oliphants / CC/NN / Hallowed Oak / King Elephant / Solomon's Hollow / The Green Zoo / Dark Swallows / Parade of Bad Guys / Jumping Sharks / Asher Fulero / Hokum Hi-Flyers / Limbosa / With Child / Uintahs / Pull Out Quick / Upinatem / Jonathan Warren & The Billygoats / Bad90s / Ladytramp / Fox Alive / Hihazel / Blaqks / Woodwind / Phantahex / Possum Livin / Sword of a Bad Speller / First Borns / Ned Garthe / Storie Grubb & the Holy Wars / Social Antidote / Host (US) / Whiskey Sasquatch / Like A Rocket / Mindrips / Obscured by the Sun / Ditch Tiger / James Plane Wreck / Cerberus Rex / Deeveaux / Exit Prose / A.k.a. Belle / Neighborhood Brains / King Brat / Avtale / Foxxtones / New Iron Front / Rosa Dos Ventos / Teenage Nasty / Sandusky Furs / The Blue Riders / The All-Hail / Van Wave / Buckskin Bible Revue / Fiddle Junkies / Rollersnakes / Psycache / Lerk / Gregory Rawlins / Freddy Sin / Worst Foster Parents / Verstal / TRRRST! / Sam Cooper & Co. / Pedro Rolas / Pat Benolkin & DJ Flow / Norther Giants / Memory Smoker / MC Shake / Mayo Coalz / Kisse / JD Kindle & The Eastern Oregon Playboys / Jan Summerhays / Gigglebomb / Get Wet Plus / Burn, Wooden Vale! / Bonefish Sam / And And Adn / Ancient Psychic Tandem War Elephant / Mike Surber & the Long Con / Spike Coggins / Pork Chopper / Gem State / Tommy Dirtweed Show all bands
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Treefort Music Fest Boise, Idaho, United States
Mar 10, 2014
The Joy Formidable

Wolf's Law

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Clive Bar Austin, Texas, United States
Mar 08, 2014
Index Festival
"Index Festival" / People Under the Stairs / The Joy Formidable / Kate Nash / Allen Stone / The Felice Brothers / The Quaker City Night Hawks / Lucius
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Panther Island Pavilion Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Dec 08, 2013
Of Monsters and Men / Twenty One Pilots / The Joy Formidable / Paper Route / Grouplove

The Big Ticket

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Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Nov 10, 2013
Coastline Festival 2013
Capital Cities / Passion Pit / Two Door Cinema Club / Matt and Kim / NEIGHBOURHOOD / The Joy Formidable / Surfer Blood / St. Lucia / The Mowgli's / Blondfire / Zulu Wave / Fitz and the Tantrums
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MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre, Florida State Fairgrounds Tampa, Florida, United States
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Nov 09, 2013
Coastline Music Festival
Passion Pit / Two Door Cinema Club / Matt and Kim / Fitz and the Tantrums / The Mowgli's / Surfer Blood / The Neighbourhood / St. Lucia / The Joy Formidable / Blondfire / Zulu Wave / Polyenso
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MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre, Florida State Fairgrounds Tampa, Florida, United States
Nov 09, 2013 –
Nov 10, 2013
Coastline Festival 2013
The Neighbourhood / Two Door Cinema Club / Passion Pit / Fitz and the Tantrums / Matt and Kim / The Joy Formidable / The Mowgli's / Surfer Blood / St. Lucia / Blondfire / Zulu Wave / Polyenso
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MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre, Florida State Fairgrounds Tampa, Florida, United States
Nov 08, 2013
Two Door Cinema Club / Passion Pit / St. Lucia / The Joy Formidable
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St. Augustine Amphitheatre St. Augustine, Florida, United States
Nov 06, 2013
The Joy Formidable

Fall Band Party

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Emory University Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Nov 04, 2013
Passion Pit / The Joy Formidable Burruss Hall Auditorium, Virginia Tech Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
Nov 03, 2013
Passion Pit / The Joy Formidable
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The Norva Norfolk, Virginia, United States
Nov 01, 2013
The Joy Formidable

Wolf's Law

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House of Blues Atlantic City, Showboat Atlantic City Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States
Oct 31, 2013
The Joy Formidable

Wolf's Law

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Echostage Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Oct 29, 2013
The Joy Formidable / Passion Pit The Midland Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Oct 27, 2013
The Joy Formidable

Life is Beautiful

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Downtown Las Vegas Fremont Street Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Oct 26, 2013
Ask That God Tour
Human Life / 2day Park / Ride / 2day Shuttle Pass / The Killers / Kings Of Leon / Beck / Imagine Dragons / Pretty Lights / Empire of the Sun / Passion Pit / Jurassic 5 / Childish Gambino / Sound Tribe Sector 9 / Purity Ring / Big Gigantic / Portugal. The Man / Danny Brown / Dawes / Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness / Earl Sweatshirt / The Joy Formidable / Living Colour / Allen Stone / Capital Cities / HAIM / Twenty One Pilots / ZZ Ward / Poolside / Family of the Year / Robert DeLong / Five Knives / Cayucas / Cosmic Suckerpunch / Charli xcx / Knocked Up Kids / Vampire Weekend / Janelle Monáe / Alabama Shakes / Cults / Smith Westerns / Nico Vega / Wildcat! Wildcat! / Chancellor Warhol / The Kingston Springs / Children Of The Night / The Dig / Tink / DREAMERS / 2day Ga / 2day Vip Show all bands
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Downtown Las Vegas Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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Oct 26, 2013 –
Oct 27, 2013
Life Is Beautiful 2013
Alpine / Turner / Same Sex Mary / Nancy Silverton / American Cream / Most Thieves / Poolside / Empire of the Sun / Purity Ring / Danny Brown / Allen Stone / The Dreamers / Kim Canteenwalla / Goldboot / Jason Zenga (High-Def) / Crazy Chief / HaleAmanO / Megan Romano / Alabama Shakes / Cosmic Suckerpunch / Sabriel / Iron Chef Cat Cora / Akira Back / Capital Cities / Richard Camarota / R-n-r / Rick Moonen / Big Gigantic / Smith Westerns / Empire of the Year / Joey Pero / Culinary Crawl / Children Of The Night / Family of the Year / Twenty One Pilots / Wildcat! Wildcat! / A Crowd of Small Adventures! / Jurassic 5 / Kings Ov Leon / Tink / Rusty Maples / Sunday Ga / The Dirty Hooks / Moondog Matinee / Charli xcx / EKOH / Jonathan Waxman / The Kingston Springs / Portugal. The Man / ZZ Ward / Dusty Sunshine / Beau Hodges Band / Chancellor Warhol / Sven Mede / Pretty Lights / Robert DeLong / Jordan Kate Mitchell / Jason Tuley / Kid Meets Cougar / Five Knives / Knocked Up Kids / Cayucas / Nico Vega / The Dig / Wallpaper. / The Killers / Imagine Dragons / Vampire Weekend / Passion Pit / Zedd / Childish Gambino / HAIM / Janelle Monáe / Cults / The Joy Formidable / Earl Sweatshirt / Dawes / Living Colour / Sound Tribe Sector 9 / Kings Of Leon / Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness / Beck Show all bands
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Downtown Las Vegas Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Show Duplicate for Oct 26, 2013
Oct 25, 2013
Passion Pit / The Joy Formidable
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Greek Theatre, Griffith Park Los Angeles, California, United States
Oct 22, 2013
Passion Pit / The Joy Formidable
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Open Air Amphitheater, San Diego State University San Diego, California, United States
Oct 21, 2013
Passion Pit / The Joy Formidable
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Fox Theater Oakland, California, United States
Oct 18, 2013
Passion Pit / The Joy Formidable Knitting Factory Spokane, Washington, United States

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2026 22 concerts
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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
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2013 161 concerts
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