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The Joy Formidable - Greyhounds in the Slips

03:23 | 831 plays | Oct 11 2009





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  • I am Frank !Frank Garcia
    Thank you so much for such a great show in Costa Mesa :) It was worth the travels to see you

    Posted Aug 17 2010 10:05 PM

  • Naymedici
    Top stuff chaps!

    Posted Aug 15 2010 2:51 AM

  • corbu Online Now!
    great show last night at the bootleg los angeles. thanks for coming out finally.

    Posted Aug 15 2010 2:51 AM

  • DJ ROCCO HORROR
    Ritz you and the guys sounded...I'm Speechless! Thanks you for making it to L.A. Alwayz Loved, Rocco.

    Posted Aug 15 2010 2:51 AM

  • Daddy
    Hey Guys,
    thanks for the ADD
    and the best for the Australia Tour!
    Daddy - Munich.



    Posted Aug 4 2010 9:29 AM

  • JaneJane Austin
    Whereever you go The Joy Formidable I follow you. Thanks for the add.
    Follow me on twitter http://twitter.com/iaent The Joy Formidable


    Posted Aug 4 2010 9:29 AM

  • Marley Benz
    You guys were brilliant at The Temper Trap last night!
    Looking forward to seeing you at Splendour in The Grass!!

    Posted Aug 4 2010 9:28 AM

  • AG Hyde
    The Joy formidable are an enticing,
    appealing, potent aggressive melodic alternative
    to the musical norm. Gotta love 'em!

    Posted Aug 4 2010 9:28 AM

  • Red Light White Light
    hi guys, thanks for adding us. please come over to germany at some point, we love your stuff. cheers, RLWL

    Posted Aug 4 2010 9:28 AM

  • Germ Free Adolescents
    enJOYing the tunes very much, and glad to connect.

    Posted Aug 4 2010 9:28 AM

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  • Genre: Other

    Location UK

    Profile Views: 999503

    Last Login: 9/4/2010

    Member Since 10/6/2007

    Website www.thejoyformidable.com

    Record Label Canvasback

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    Some things are just meant to be. Thus it was that Ritzy Bryan and Rhydian Dafydd met at school and discovered their shared love of music. The pair, opinionated and deeply in love with the whole idea of being in a band, started to spend time at North Walian music mecca The Buckley Tivoli, gaining inspiration and experience from the procession of touring and local bands that took to the stage. With Ritzy’s parents enormous, exhaustive record collection delivering an encyclopaedic library of popular music in all its forms the die was cast. Nevertheless, in an otherwise provincial, sleepy setting, itchy feet and a fleeing were inevitable; Ritzy to Washington DC and Rhydian to Manchester, where they enjoyed separate but strangely parallel journeys as singer songwriters. It was a single phone call that reunited them, this time they would write and record together. Back in North Wales a flurry of early recordings revealed a voice emerging; the beauty of their surroundings against the sadness of personal circumstances tugging conflictingly in their songs and selves. They decided to move, choosing London as their new home and a base for their live aspirations. With Matt Thomas on drums, a conjoint surrealist and raw, forceful drummer, The Joy Formidable thrived on the live front. Soundscape layers spiked by the nakedness of a 3-piece, gargantuan, clamorous bass and guitars that come in waves laid down a musical bed on which Ritzy’s voice could seethe and coo in equal measure. Little wonder that early shows gained the band a well deserved reputation as a band you had to see, pushing The Joy Formidable into the public consciousness from the very beginning. With a sound that melds the huge expanses of their native Mold countryside to the hectic nature of their new domicile, The Joy Formidable create a music that is by turns sublime and gothic, punctuating passages of sheer beauty with shards of dissonance and anger, a new loud quiet dynamic for a new decade. The move to London also determined a working ethos that survives to the present day. The band’s bedroom is a chrysalis that mutates daily from sleeping quarters, to studio, to workshop. It was here they recorded the singles Austere, Cradle and Whirring from their 8 track CD “A Balloon called Moaning" - a defiant release of optimism against their own heavy hearts - and it is here that new single, ‘Popinjay’ and the forthcoming debut album are being put together by the trio, independent of any outside influence. Having sold out multiple UK tours throughout 2009 and taken to the road in this country in support of the likes of Editors, this self contained band, recording studio, label and design company in one has also made their mark across the globe, touring Europe with The Temper Trap and visiting the US with Passion Pit, where support dates were supplemented by their first two headline US shows, both sold out and the subject of high praise amongst the cognoscenti of New York City and the US music scene. Now, The Joy Formidable return to home ground for their most extensive UK tour to date, including their largest ever show on these shores, at London’s Electric Ballroom. Already high on the list of bands to break through amongst those in the know in the first year of this new decade, The Joy Formidable continue to hold their futures firmly in their own hands. Like we say, some things are just meant to be.

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    Ritzy Bryan, Rhydian Dafydd, Matt Thomas

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