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The Joy Formidable "Whirring"



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.

Great British Hopes: The Joy Formidable

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 festival allows, you tend to head for what you know. So the only band I ended up seeing there was The Joy Formidable. In retrospect, I wish I’d gone to see the car crash of a set by the FF’ers, but that’s a different story.

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.

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