Bristol, England's Maximum Joy was formed in 1979 by Janine Rainforth and Tony Wrafter founder members and joined by John Waddington, Charlie Llewellin and Dan Catsis. Blending punk, funk,soul, reggae and jazz they melded their own unique post-punk sound. Maximum Joy signed to the Rough Trade distributed Y Records and their first single, 'Stretch' (with b'side "Silent Street") came out in 1981. In the U.S. the record was distributed by the legendary 99 Records and became and underground NYC club classic.
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Maximum Joy has had 1 concert.
Maximum Joy is most often considered to be Funk, Post-Punk, New Wave, UK Post-Punk, No Wave, and Bristol.
The last Maximum Joy concert was on October 24, 2015 at Various Venues in Bristol, England, United Kingdom. The bands that performed were: Lower Dens / Mild High Club / Micachu & The Shapes / Skepta / Chastity Belt / JME / Romare / Helena Hauff / The Quietus DJs / Wire / Battles / The Soft Moon / Factory Floor / Dean Blunt / Blanck Mass / Danny L Harle / Long Arm / Objekt / Slime / Spectres / Speedy Ortiz / Ruff Sqwad / Something Anorak / DJ Funk / Hodge / BARLI / Pardon My French / Holly Herndon / Hunee / Futureboogie / Khruangbin / Ron Trent / Loyle Carner / The Gnarwharls / Sex Swing / Untold / Avalon Emerson / Kokoro / Darwin / Vessels / Maximum Joy / Liturgy / Penguin Cafe / Micachu / Nicole Willis / Mike Skinner (DJ Set) / J-Cush / HEALTH / Duck House / Malestripper / Dave Harvey / Barnt / Lee "Scratch" Perry / Bernard + Edith / Giant Swan / Grumbling Fur / Gramrcy / Scarlet Rascal / Studio 89 DJs / Lone / Vessel / Beak> / ND_Baumecker / Oliver Wilde / Daisuke Tanabe / Strange Fruits / Discodromo / Galcher Lustwerk / Moxie / Eric Duncan / Savages / Steve (Jane Parker).
