If you’re secular, you might call it serendipity, while others might call it divine intervention – the moment that The Joy sang together for the first time. This was the day that saw five teenage boys from the South African township of Hammarsdale turned up to their school choir practice earlier than the other boys; early enough to spontaneously jam a new song into existence. In that moment came the realisation that something beyond their collective understanding seemed to happen when they alighted upon the same song. Making their U.K. debut TV appearances last summer when the appeared on the BBC coverage of Glastonbury and as part of Jools Holland’s 30th anniversary Later… show it was instantly apparent here was a group able to summon with their music that holy shiver you feel when you drop the needle onto Sam Cooke’s version of Nearer To Three, Jeff Buckley performing Lover You Should Have Come Over or hear Buju Banton singing Untold Stories. The Joy’s debut album is out on 21st June via Transgressive Records.