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 41)

Date Concert Venue Location
May 19, 2011
Manic Street Preachers / The Joy Formidable
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Civic Hall, University of Wolverhampton at The Halls Wolverhampton, England, United Kingdom
May 18, 2011
Manic Street Preachers / The Joy Formidable
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Venue Cymru Llandudno, Wales, United Kingdom
May 17, 2011
The Joy Formidable Conan Burbank, California, United States
May 16, 2011
The Joy Formidable

The Big Roar

Olympia Theatre Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
May 14, 2011
The Joy Formidable

Radio 1's Big Weekend

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Carlisle Lake District Airport Carlisle, 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 and 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, England, United Kingdom
May 13, 2011
Manic Street Preachers / The Joy Formidable
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Markthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
May 12, 2011
The Joy Formidable

Great Escape

Hector's House Brighton, England, United Kingdom
May 12, 2011 –
May 14, 2011
The Great Escape 2011
Ed Sheeran / Foster The People / Bastille / Grouplove / Young the Giant / Sufjan Stevens / The Naked and Famous / Ben Howard / Daughter / Little Dragon / SBTRKT / The Vaccines / DJ Shadow / Warpaint / Cults / Friendly Fires / Katy B / Twin Shadow / The Antlers / The Joy Formidable / Frank Turner / K.Flay / Max Richter / Lucy Rose / Villagers / Holy Ghost / Okkervil River / White Denim / Yuck / The Jezabels / Wolf Gang / Guillemots / Dustin O'Halloran / Cloud Control / Anna Calvi / Kyla La Grange / Dry the River / Ghostpoet / Alela Diane / Matthew and the Atlas / The Secret Sisters / Said the Whale / Gang Gang Dance / Art Brut / Star Slinger / Braids / Suuns / Actress / EMA / The Soft Moon / Mona / Hey Rosetta! / Hauschka / Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows / Tribes / Dark Dark Dark / Young Empires / Anoraak / Seekae / Breton / Kitten / Dutch Uncles / Dent May / DZ Deathrays / Big Deal / Lanterns on the Lake / Factory Floor / John Cooper Clarke / Deep Sea Arcade / The Phoenix Foundation / I Am Oak / The Wave Pictures / TEETH / Bleeding Knees Club / Team Me / Luke Abbott / PVT / Fear of Men / Frankie & The Heartstrings / Marcus Foster / Dels / Holidays / Josh T. Pearson / Rachel Sermanni / The Sound of Arrows / Moddi / Smoke Fairies / Alice Gold / 2:54 / Trophy Wife / Brasstronaut / Fight Like Apes / Winter Gloves / The History of Apple Pie / DM Stith / AnR / Fredrika Stahl / Treefight For Sunlight / Evergreen Official / Viva Brother / P.S. I Love You / Heathers / Fiction / Hobbie Stuart / The Heartbreaks / Echo Lake / LCMDF / Seams / Mondkopf / Cocknbullkid / Gallops / In-Flight Safety / Woodhands / Paris Suit Yourself / Team Ghost / Worship / Die! Die! Die! / Two Wounded Birds / Idiot Glee / Spark / Let's Buy Happiness / Rebeka / Nedry / David J. Roch / Lewis Floyd Henry / General / Visions of Trees / worriedaboutsatan / Dad Rocks! / My First Tooth / Bonjay / Black Lungs / The Victorian English Gentlemens Club / Gable / Becoming Real / Tripwires / Bonfires / Freeze the Atlantic / The Mountains & the Trees / Dan Parsons / Melodica, Melody and Me / Paper Crows / Oh So Quiet / We Are The Physics / Delta Maid / Lucy Swann / Us Baby Bear Bones / Modern Superstitions / Marina Gasolina / Malpas / Jumping Ships / Look, Stranger! / I Dream In Colour / Babe, Terror / NLF3 / Marques / Hot Horizons / Nicholas Stevenson / CAP PAS CAP / Skinny Machines / Cat Matador / Young Empire / Folie Ordinaire / Deadwax / Anoorak / Louis Abbott / Megan Goodwin Show all bands
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Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Show Duplicate for May 12, 2011
May 10, 2011
The Joy Formidable / Bear Driver / Spotlight Kid
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KOKO London, England, United Kingdom
May 08, 2011
The Joy Formidable The Belmont Austin, Texas, United States
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 The 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
Ask That God Tour
Mumford & Sons / The Love Language / Empire of the Sun / The Tallest Man On Earth / The New Pornographers / The Radio Dept. / Thao with the Get Down Stay Down / Delta Spirit / The Felice Brothers / Freelance Whales / Jenny and Johnny / Arcade Fire / The Swell Season / The Kills / Bright Eyes / Elbow / Broken Social Scene / Erykah Badu / Foals / The Joy Formidable Show all bands
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Empire Polo Club Indio, California, United States
Apr 15, 2011 –
Apr 17, 2011
Coachella 2011
Kanye West / Ye / Wiz Khalifa / Kings Of Leon / Ellie Goulding / Mumford & Sons / Skrillex / The Black Keys / Foster The People / Tame Impala / The Strokes / Arcade Fire / Miguel / Cage The Elephant / Two Door Cinema Club / Fun. / The National / Empire of the Sun / Foals / Jimmy Eat World / Duran Duran / Neon Trees / Afrojack / The Chemical Brothers / Cold War Kids / Marina / Erykah Badu / Tinie Tempah / Interpol / Angus & Julia Stone / Phantogram / CeeLo Green / Ratatat / Crystal Castles / Ms. Lauryn Hill / Robyn / Bright Eyes / Plan B / City and Colour / Animal Collective / SBTRKT / PJ Harvey / The Drums / Elbow / Chromeo / Chase & Status / Scissor Sisters / Cut Copy / Broken Social Scene / The Tallest Man On Earth / The Kills / Cults / Sleigh Bells / Best Coast / Warpaint / Axwell / Duck Sauce / A-Trak / Flogging Molly / Eliza Doolittle / Hurts / Excision / Twin Shadow / Steve Angello / Fedde le Grand / The New Pornographers / Brandon Flowers / Laidback Luke / Phosphorescent / Jack's Mannequin / Mount Kimbie / Francis and the Lights / Raphael Saadiq / The Joy Formidable / Suede / Paul Van Dyk / Boys Noize / Gogol Bordello / The Bloody Beetroots / Trentemøller / Fat Freddy's Drop / Death from Above 1979 / The Presets / Emancipator / Yelle / CSS / TOKiMONSTA / Delta Spirit / Trampled by Turtles / She Wants Revenge / Bomba Estéreo / Nosaj Thing / Leftfield / The Pains of Being Pure at Heart / YACHT / The Radio Dept. / Chuckie / Caifanes / Freelance Whales / Sasha / High Contrast / Magnetic Man / HEALTH / Wire / Dirty Vegas / Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti / Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All (OFWGKTA) / Delorean / Good Old War / Green Velvet / Thao & The Get Down Stay Down / 12th Planet / Glasser / Ryan Leslie / Kele Okereke / POP ETC / Lil B / Here We Go Magic / Ozomatli / Shpongle / The Rural Alberta Advantage / Menomena / The Swell Season / Caspa / Titus Andronicus / Gypsy and the Cat / Daedelus / DJ Zinc / Cold Cave / Big Audio Dynamite / !!! (Chk Chk Chk) / Lorn / The Felice Brothers / Nas & Damian Marley / Joy Orbison / The Aquabats / Jack Beats / Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears / Paper Diamond / Andy C / Mariachi El Bronx / Emicida / Clare Maguire / Los Bunkers / Riva Starr / Rye Rye / Breakage / Lightning Bolt / Scala & Kolacny Brothers / Kraddy / Sven Vath / GQ / Gayngs / Erick Morillo / Sander Kleinenberg / Off! / Monarchy / One Day As a Lion / Mala / Beardyman / Joachim Garraud / Zed Bias / Jenny and Johnny / DJ Hype / Thunderball / Moving Units / Kode9 / DJ Marky / Jake's / The Twelves / The Love Language / Ramadanman / Henry Clay People / Govinda / DJ Dan / The London Suede / Brandt Brauer Frick / NiT GriT / an-ten-nae / Fistful of Mercy / Ras G / Roska / Freq Nasty / Siren / Saqi / Kyle Hall / Electric Touch / Take / DJ Kentaro / Gladkill / Terror Danjah / Donald Glaude / Goth-Trad / Goldrush / Stephan Jacobs / Sugarpill / Ana Sia / JD Samson & MEN / Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group / Gordon Downie / Ee / Don Letts / Mary Anne Hobbs / Lucent Dossier Experience / R.L.S / Timonkey / La'reda / 新裤子 (New Pants) / Metaphase / Alf Alpha / DJ Heavygrinder / White Noize / Jupit3r / Patricio / Karim So / Jesse Wright / Sammy Bliss / Sam Xl / DJ Michelle Bass / Perry & Etty Vs. Chris Cox Show all bands
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Empire Polo Club Indio, 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
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The Crocodile Seattle, Washington, United States

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The Cure / The Twilight Sad / The Joy Formidable
Jun 24, 2026
 Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
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Nov 5, 2011
 Austin, Texas, United States
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The Cure / The Twilight Sad / The Joy Formidable
Jun 24, 2026
 Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
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 Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
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Nov 23, 2016
 Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
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Sep 11 - 13, 2015
 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Aug 5 - 7, 2011
 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Jul 8, 2013
 Buffalo, New York, United States
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Jul 8, 2013
 Buffalo, New York, United States
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Jul 8, 2013
 Buffalo, New York, United States
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Jun 24, 2026
 Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
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Genres:

Rock
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 (06/24/2026):

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  1. The Greatest Light Is the Greatest Shade
  2. Cradle
  3. Sevier
  4. Whirring
  5. Wolf's Law
  6. The Everchanging Spectrum of a Lie

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Concerts Per Year:

2026 22 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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