The Joy Formidable Latest News

The Joy Formidable "Whirring"
Myspace This London by way of Wales outfit’s next single, "Whirring," will be out on 25 May in the UK. You can pre-order the single and get extra stuff including a chance to win free entry to every The Joy Formidable headlining concert for the rest of your life. Find out more info here. Their mini LP A Balloon Called Moaning is available now via CD.
The Joy Formidable / It Hugs Back / Theoretical Girl - Wilmington Arms - 21 Jan 2009
Joy Formidable pic by Joseph Hughes This is a new venue for me, positioned slightly awkwardly midway between Farringdon and Kings Cross. However, the performance space at The Wilmington Arms is pleasingly small and agreeably run, and it is only due to the calibre of the acts tonight that it gradually becomes uncomfortably rammed by the end of the evening. First up we have Theoretical Girl...
Great British Hopes: The Joy Formidable
While at Reading back in the summer, I didn’t get much of a chance to see bands playing on the BBC Introducing stage. The lowliest stage of the festival, it was just a small tent with bands you’ve never heard of playing to people passing by on their way to one of the chip vans. I’ve no doubt that a lot of these bands would have been talented, but in the limited time that a...
All The Joy Formidable news
Syndicate content

The Joy Formidable MP3s

The Joy Formidable - Nottingham Bodega, 16th March 2010
A great set recorded on the third night of The Joy Formidable’s current jaunt around the U.K. The long awaited new album is probably going to be released in June and I for one am marking off the days on my bedpost. This set contains a couple of new songs to point us in the right direction "Popinjay" I’m sure you’ll already be familiar with sounds spectacular but of...
The Joy Formidable - 6 Music session 19th January 2009
This is the recent session The Joy Formidable recorded for Marc Riley's show on BBC 6 Music. According to their MySpace page, their forthcoming eight track album "A Balloon Called Moaning" which is scheduled for release... er...soon, has already sold out. Don't ask me how this is possible, I'm not a professor of mathematics suffice to say until I get my copy I'm gonna bitch like a...
The Joy Formidable "Cradle"
Myspace // "Cradle" [Audio] Hailing from North Wales, The Joy Formidable now reside in London and have been gaining quite a buzz lately, with The Guardian citing them as "one to watch" and NME describing their music as "Epic, melodic, hand-shandy pop from a band who understand the true joys of life." The band’s second single, "Cradle," will be...
Hop Farm Festival 2009: A Review
This past weekend brought the second festival of 2009 for Another Form of Relief. It was a local festival, but one that I never intended on going to given it’s ludicrous £125 ticket cost. Seemingly others thought the same, given ticket sales struggled to such a degree that they were giving £250 of tickets away with £10 items via a clothing store. So, one Kangaroo Poo...
The Joy Formidable
If you’ve followed this site for a while, you might know I have a severe weakness for female-fronted indie pop bands, so it’s no surprise that I was immediately taken by Welsh noise-pop trio, The Joy Formidable. They fit their name perfectly, their music is punchy, melodic, and uproariously joyful. The band’s blend of dream-pop and alt-fuzz and Ritzy Bryan’s...
All The Joy Formidable mp3s
Syndicate content

The Joy Formidable Reviews

THE JOY FORMIDABLE
Venue: Bitterscene @ The Bassment, Chelmsford Teaser: When the hotly tipped three piece invaded Chelmsford’s local indie night, Don Blandford was there to capture the sights, the smells and the… er.. six songs?! Find out if it was all worth it here…. Pull quote 2: ‘Butterfly’ begins with jaunty echoes of Thomas Tantrum, before crashing into...
All The Joy Formidable reviews
Syndicate content

Top 5 Downloads

  • Bully For You

    Gorgeous Bully From: Plymouth, United Kingdom The more sanitised, synthetic and computerised mainstream music becomes the more the discerning music lover yearns for something a little more...

  • Johan Reinhold - Shoot Me Down Remix EP

    Having already garnered quite a following in his native Sweden, Johan Reinhold is introducing himself to our ears with his indie-electro-pop sensibilities in the form of a remix EP. Music after the...

  • Corpse Lights: A Curdled Churn

    Woe betide any unfortunate soul who suddenly has a flash of inspiration and records one of the most brilliant songs of the year in mid-December: it simply won’t even get heard amongst all...

  • The King Khan Experience

    I Love The Way You Howl King Khan recently retired The Shrines and The BBQ Show and started a new project – The King Khan Experience. He’s been getting compared to Jimi Hendrix his...

  • Secret Diaries: Parcel Delivery

    Secret Diaries have one of those supremely satisfying band names that make you wonder why no-one has thought of it before. I love it when that happens. And speaking of ‘supremely...
More MP3s

Have You Read?

  • Unsigned Band Spotlight: Casino Zone

    The text accompanying the track ‘Loralie’ that was sent in to explain this bunch of Northwest guitar abusers was ‘Motown Grunge with that Alien Ant Farm vibe’. Eh?

  • Get Smart

    PARSLEY'S COMMLOCK Film Review : Get Smart Well it's an interesting time to be parodying international terrorism and the security services, but if it has to be done then this effort certainly hits...

  • the Dirty Dishes - In the Clouds EP

    Ahhhh. I love this. When Jenny Tuite of the Dirty Dishes emailed us at Artrocker.com, there was no extended press drivel or desperate pleadings for promotion, just a simple "Hey there!...

Photos

  • In Pictures: FOE

    Photos from a recent FOE gig - a friend of our friends Hold Your Horse Is - she’s gonna be big!!! Read the gig review after the jump.

  • In Pictures: Avett Brothers

    Shots of North Carolina’s folk-rocking Avett Brothers’ stop in Glasgow - 22.08.11 Read the review of the gig here.

  • In Pictures: Latitude Festival 2011

    Take a look at the acts and art on offer at this year’s Latitude Festival in Suffolk. Included are the likes of Fight Like Apes, Lykke Li, Sea of Bees and Seasick Steve. Photos from our own...

  • In Pictures: Bad Guys at the Old Blue Last

    Good time with Bad Guys. Photos from the May 29th gig at the Old Blue Last. Read the review by the Bad Guy himself, Stuart London after the jump.  

  • In Pictures: White Lies and Crocodiles at Shepherd's Bush Empire

    Artrocker.com exclusive: for fans of White Lies and Crocodiles we’ve got some fresh pictures from their UK show at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire earlier this month, courtesy of Alessandro...

Blogs