News: The Joy Formidable Announce 2011 US Tour Dates
Welsh band The Joy Formidable will be bringing their extraordinary live show to venues all across the US this Spring.
Tour Dates
3/22 Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
3/24 Durham, NC @ Coffeehouse @ Duke Univ.
3/25 Washington DC @ Black Cat
3/26 Albany, NY @ Valentines
3/28 Providence, RI @ The Met
3/29 Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
3/30 Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
3/31 Princton, NJ @ Terrace Club @ Princeton Univ.
4/1 Harrisburg, PA @ The Abbey
4/2 Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern
4/4 Columbus, OH @ The Basement
4/5 Chicago , IL @ Lincoln Hall
4/6 Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry
4/8 Denver, CO @ Larimier Lounge
4/9 Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
4/11 Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studio
4/12 Seattle, WA @ Crocodile
4/14 San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill
4/16 Indio, CA @ Coachella
4/19 Phoenix, AZ @ Rhythm Room
4/20 Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad
4/22 St Louis, MO @ Luminary Arts Center
4/23 Kansas City, MO @ Riot Room
4/26 Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop
4/27 Pittsburgh, PA @ The Smiling Moose
4/29 New York, NY @ Webster Hall
News: The Joy Formidable To Headline NME Radar Tour with Chapel Club
The Joy Formidable will be the headline act on this years NME Radar Tour. Taking place in September and October, support with come from Chapel Club.
Dates and ticket details are as follows
27-September Birmingham O2 Academy2
28-September Norwich Waterfront
30-September Nottingham Rescue Rooms
01-October Glasgow King Tuts
02- October Aberdeen Tunnels
04- October Manchester Academy 3
05- October Newcastle O2 Academy2
06- October Leeds Cockpit
07- October Stoke Sugarmill
08- October Cardiff Millennium Music Hall
10- October Oxford O2 Academy2
11- October Brighton Concorde 2
13- October Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
14- October London KOKO
Tickets go on sale on Wednesday 30th June at 9am, priced at £9.50 and £11 in London. Go to www.nme.com/tickets.
Download: The Joy Formidable – Whirring
The Joy Formidable is the first band signed to Black Bell Records, the label founded by Passion Pit’s synth player/sampler Ayad Al Adhamy. The band will release their Black Bell debut, an eight-song EP titled A Balloon Called Moaning, on May 4. Enjoy a tune from the upcoming release below.
News: The Joy Formidable announce Temper Trap Support
The Joy Formidable have just announced they will be supprorting The Temper Trap on their European tour in December. The band will also release a live recording of their forthcoming Relentless Garage headlining show on September 30th. Titled “First you have to get mad”, it will be released just 6 weeks later on November 16th and will be available to pre-order from the band’s myspace page. The day before their Relentless Garage headliner, September 29th, the band play a special free show at Reading’s Oakford Social.
September
29th Reading Oakford Social (Free show)
30th London Relentless Garage (headline show)
October
5th Tokyo Club Quattro (Japan)
6th Osaka Club Quattro (Japan)
12th Edinburgh Picture House (w/ Editors)
13th Glasgow Barrowland (w/ Editors)
14th Newcastle O2 Academy (w/ Editors)
16th Manchester Academy (w/ Editors)
17th Leeds O2 (w/ Editors)
18th Norwich UEA (w/ Editors)
21st Sheffield Leadmill (w/ Passion Pit)
22nd Northumbria Uni (w/ Passion Pit)
23rd Glasgow Club Academy (w/ Passion Pit)
24th Manchester Club Academy (w/ Passion Pit)
26th Oxford O2 Academy (w/ Passion Pit)
27th London Koko (w/ Passion Pit)
30th Bristol Anson Rooms (w/ Passion Pit)
31st Southampton University (w/ Passion Pit)
November
1st Birmingham O2 Academy (w/ Passion Pit)
21st SWE Stockholm Debaser Slussen (w/ The Temper Trap)
22nd NOR Oslo John Dee (w/ The Temper Trap)
23rd DEN Copenhagen Vega (w/ The Temper Trap)
25th GER Hamburg Molotow (w/ The Temper Trap)
26th GER Frankfurt Nachtleben (w/ The Temper Trap)
27th GER Cologne Gebaeude 9 (w/ The Temper Trap)
28th GER Berlin Lido (w/ The Temper Trap)
30th GER Munich Atomic Cafi (w/ The Temper Trap)
December
1st AUS Vienna Szene Wien (w/ The Temper Trap)
2nd SWI Zurich Hafenkneipe (w/ The Temper Trap)
4th ITA Milan La Casa 139 (w/ The Temper Trap)
5th SWI Fribourg Fri-Son (w/ The Temper Trap)
14th SPA Madrid Ramdell (w/ The Temper Trap)
17th HOL Nijmegan Doonroosje (w/ The Temper Trap)
18th FRA Paris Nouvea Casino (w/ The Temper Trap)
19th BEL Brussels Botanique (w/ The Temper Trap)
20th HOL Amsterdam Melkweg (w/ The Temper Trap)