Y Not Festival


The Y Not Festival is an annual music festival held in Pikehall, Derbyshire, United Kingdom. It first took place in 2005, at a disused quarry site as a party for around 120 people organised by Ralph Broadbent who was planning a party in the garden of his parents' house but had to relocate when his parents didn't go away as planned. For the first year it went under the name of the Big Gin Festival. The main stage at the festival has retained this name as The Big Gin Stage. The following year it was renamed Y Not Festival with the public being invited and with attendances increasing year on year and eventually relocating to its current site at Pikehall in Derbyshire. As a small independent festival the event has won many awards and accolades such as best small festival in 2012 and the prize for best grass roots event and best toilets at the 2011 UK Festival Awards. In 2016 it was sold to Global Radio's festival division, Broadwick Live, along with Truck Festival and the rest of Broadbent's company portfolio. 2017 was the first year under the new management.

Y Not Festival 2019

Y Not Festival 2019 was held on the 25th-28th July 2019. Two Door cinema Club played a headline set on the Saturday Night, two years after their set was cancelled in 2017. Other notable performances included a special guest slot from IDLES on Saturday afternoon, Gerry Cinnamon's packed out Friday teatime session and after-headliner DJ slots from Mike Skinner from The Streets and Jax Jones. Despite it being announced that the festival arena would be opened at 4 pm, the gates were not opened until approximately 6:20 pm. Because of this The Wired and Airways did not perform due to time.
Line up
Big Gin Stage
ThursdayFridaySaturdaySunday
White Lies
The Pigeon Detectives
Lucia
Airways
The Wired 		Elbow
Franz Ferdinand
Don Bronco
Gerry Cinnamon
Mahalia
Easy Life
Laurel
Zuzu
Wolf Club		Two Door Cinema Club
You Me At Six
Reverend and the Makers
Wretch 32
Rat Boy
The Big Moon
IDLES
Anteros
Arkells
Mr Motivator		Foals
Wolf Alice
Happy Mondays
Miles Kane
King Pleasure & the Biscuit Boys
Patawawa
Ronald Raygun

The Quarry Stage
FridaySaturdaySunday
Redlight
The Hunna
Kate Nash
Skinny Lister
Ten Tonnes
Sports Team
Cassia
Casey Lowery
Children of the State
The Rooves
The Headspace		Jax Jones
Professor Green
The Slow Readers Club
Sea Girls
Pip Blom
Sophie and the Giants
Deco
Do Nothing
The Honeymoon Suite
The Levis		Echo and The Bunnymen
The Rifles
Lucy Rose
Ady Sulieman
Beans on Toast
Only The Poets
Age of L.U.N.A
Soft Boys and Girls Club
Reflekter
Holly Humberstone

The Giant Squid
FridaySaturdaySunday
The Subways
Black Honey
Puppy
TBA
Indoor Pets
October Drift
Fuzzy Sun
The LaFontaines
Lion
Superego		The Damned
Boston Manor
Fangclub
Orchards
Feet
Bitch Falcon
Dancehall
Spun
Dirty Little Liars
Flares		Band of Skulls
YAK
Pulled Apart by Horses
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets
The Murder Capital
Allusinlove
Heavy Rapids
Hotel Lux
Raised By Owls
Candid

Y Not Festival 2018

As a result of the 2017 cancellation, in 2018 Y Not relocated to Aston Hill Farm, close to the old site of Mouldridge Lane. 2018 hosted such bands as The Libertines, Manic Street Preachers, Seasick Steve and Jamiroquai.
Line up
Big Gin Stage
ThursdayFridaySaturdaySunday
Razorlight
Reverend and the Makers

The Libertines
Manic Street Preachers
Circa Waves
The Sherlocks
Fickle Friends
The Orielles
King No-One
Nelson Can
Becky Kuek
Prose		Catfish & The Bottlemen
Kaiser Chiefs
Seasick Steve
The Amazons
Pale Waves
Maricka Hackman
Superfood
RedFaces
Sly Digs
Mr Motivator		Jamiroquai
The Wombats
The Go! Team
Tom Walker
King Pleasure & The Biscuit Boys
Bad Sounds
Haus
Bryde

The Quarry Stage
FridaySaturdaySunday
Kurupt FM
Lady Leshurr
Nadia Rose
The Lancashire Hotpots
Easy Life
Everly Pregnant Brothers
Anteros
DJ Luck & MC Neat
Oddity Road
Vega Bay
The Time Sellers

Wilkinson
Tom Grennan
Blaenovon
Jade Bird
Beans on Toast
Mullally
Paris Youth Foundation
Sheafs
Ashfields
Ava Saint
Shadow Child		Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Peace
Coasts
Lucy Spraggan
Sam Fender
Husky Loops
Rosborough
Soft Boys & Girls Club
Alex Ohm
Daisy Godfrey

The Giant Squid
FridaySaturdaySunday
Moose Blood
Mallory Knox
Turbowolf
Astroid Boys
Milk Teeth
Hellions
Holding Absence
Press to Meco
Anavae
Groundculture
I Cried Wolf		Buzzcocks
Spector
Jaws
Goat Girl
Estrons
Fizzy Blood
When Young
Yassassin
Gaffa Tape Sandy
Afterbloom		The Fat White Family
Shame
Yak
Gallops
Bloody Knees
Crows
Menance
Feet
Black Futures
Leader

Y Not Festival 2017

In 2017 the festival was affected by adverse weather conditions from the Friday and was eventually cancelled by the organisers on the final day.
Line up
Big Gin Stage
ThursdayFridaySaturdaySunday
Feeder
The Skints
Liam Bailey
Courts
White Room		The Vaccines
Clean Bandit
Nothing But Thieves
The Hunna
Sundara Karma
Haus
King No-one
Matt Wills
Sugarthief		Stereophonics
Jake Bugg
Slaves
DMA'S
Declan McKenna
Clean Cut Kid
Dan Caplan
Outlya
Deco		Two Door Cinema Club
The Happy Mondays
Maxïmo Park
Deaf Havana
Fickle Friends
King Pleasure And The Biscuit Boys
Catherine McGrath
Bad Sounds
Afterbloom

The Quarry Stage
FridaySaturdaySunday
Jaguar Skills
Frank Turner
Cast
Jaws
Matt Wills
Tom Grennan
Everly Pregnant Brothers
The Rhythm Method
Oddity Road
One Giant Causeway
Chroma Bay		Idris Elba
Example & DJ Wire
Lethal Bizzle
Sheafs
Palace
Beans On Toast
Banfi
Eyre Llew
Unknown Era
Bud
Easy Life		Twin Atlantic
Kate Nash
Cabbage
Honeyblood
Will Varley
Off Bloom
Sonny
Rob Green
Vega Bay
Daisy Godfrey

Y Not Festival 2016

The 2016 festival was held between 28–31 July. It was headlined by Editors, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Madness, The Hives, Catfish and the Bottlemen and The Cribs.
Line up
Big Gin Stage
ThursdayFridaySaturdaySunday
The Coral
Milburn
By The Rivers		Editors
The Cribs
Everything Everything
The Lancashire Hot Pots
Sam Henshaw
Kloe
Kassassin Street		Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Catfish and the Bottlemen
Circa Waves
Rat Boy
Eliza and the Bear
Jodie Abacus
The Amazons
NGOD
New Desert Blues
Mr Motivator		Madness
The Hives
Fun Lovin Criminals
Milky Chance
Sunset Sons
King Pleasure & The BB
Vant
Will Joseph Cook
Kagoule

The Quarry
FridaySaturdaySunday
DJ Fresh
Coasts
JP Cooper
Ferocious Dog
Beans on Toast
White
Inheaven
Rob Green
Silver Wilson
Suspect Alibi		Nice Like Rice
Band of Skulls
Peter Hook and the Light
Pretty Vicious
The Sherlocks
Sundara Karma
Lucy Spraggan
The Mirror Trap
RedFaces
Afterdark Movement
The Tin Pigeons		Blossoms
Lucy Rose
Seafret
The Magic Gang
Dagny
Louis Berry
Vaults
Toby Johnson
Deco
Ellie Keegan

The Giant Squid
FridaySaturdaySunday
Deap Valley
Eagulls
Yak
Public Access TV
Trams
Nai Harvest
Black Foxxes
Cassels
Beasts		Kneck Deep
Moose Blood
Dinosaur Pile Up
Black Peaks
Heck
Milk Teeth
Blood Youth
Dead!
Francobollo		Sikth
Lonely the Brave
Arcane Roots
Gnarwolves
Creeper
Reigning Days
Queen Kwong
Shame
The Decoy

Y Not Festival 2015

The 2015 festival was held between 31 July and 2 August. The festival was headlined by Snoop Dogg, Basement Jaxx and Primal Scream. Ash, Beans on Toast, Asylums and Bloxed Beats played the festival on Thursday 30 July as the early entry acts.

Line up

Big Gin Stage

FridaySaturdaySunday

  • Snoop Dogg
  • Super Furry Animals
  • Reverend and the Makers
  • Young Guns
  • Slaves
  • The Lancashire Hotpots
  • Honeyblood
  • Black Honey
  • The Beach
  • Basement Jaxx
  • Ocean Colour Scene
  • Saint Raymond
  • Deaf Havana
  • Jaws
  • Walking on Cars
  • The Academic
  • High Tyde
  • Aztecs
  • Mr Motivator
  • Primal Scream
  • Johnny Marr
  • Augustines
  • The Strypes
  • RHODES
  • King Pleasure and the Biscuit Boys
  • Blossoms
  • Twin Wild
  • CC Smugglers

    • The Quarry

    FridaySaturdaySunday

    • Less Than Jake
    • Public Service Broadcasting
    • Raleigh Ritchie
    • Rag n Bone Man
    • Jake Isaac
    • All Tvvins
    • Screaming Peaches
    • Crosa Rosa
    • Tyler Nugent
    • Patawawa
  • We Are Scientists
  • Rae Morris
  • Grant Nicholas
  • Summer Camp
  • Jagaara
  • Ady Suleiman
  • Man Made
  • RedFaces
  • Martin Luke Brown
  • Field Studies
  • Nick Mulvey
  • Indiana
  • Gengahr
  • The Bohicas
  • Kim Churchill
  • Ruen Brothers
  • Solemn Sun
  • April Towers
  • Georgie
  • Dom Robinson

    • The Giant Squid

    FridaySaturdaySunday

    • Pulled Apart By Horses
    • The Xcerts
    • Tellison
    • Brawlers
    • Best Friends
    • Get Inuit
    • Axes
    • Woahnows
    • Spills
    • John
  • Don Broco
  • Hacktivist
  • Bo Ningen
  • Arcane Roots
  • Black Peaks
  • Fearless Vampire Killers
  • Allusondrugs
  • Vant
  • Shvpes
  • Alright The Captain
  • Lower Than Atlantis
  • We Are The Ocean
  • Nine Black Alps
  • Rolo Tomassi
  • Forever Never
  • Zoax
  • LTNT
  • United Fruit
  • SkullTanker
  • Grey Hairs

    • Y Not Festival 2014

    The 2014 festival was held between 1–3 August. The festival was headlined by White Lies, Dizzee Rascal and Frank Turner.

    Line up

    Big Gin Stage

    FridaySaturdaySunday

    • White Lies
    • Razorlight
    • Spector
    • Yuck
    • Sonic Boom Six
    • Superfood
    • Racing Glaciers
    • Bat and Ball
    • M+A
    • Hey Sholay
  • Dizzee Rascal
  • The Fratellis
  • Shed Seven
  • Swim Deep
  • Catfish and the Bottlemen
  • Hotei
  • Lyger
  • Neon Waltz
  • Bang Bang Bang
  • Prides
  • Frank Turner
  • De La Soul
  • Palma Violets
  • The Sunshine Underground
  • Chloe Howl
  • King Pleasure and the Biscuit Boys
  • Natives
  • Menace Beach
  • In Colour

    • The Quarry

    The Giant Squid

    FridaySaturdaySunday

    • Andrew WK
    • Turbowolf
    • Fight Like Apes
    • Brawlers
    • Freeze the Atlantic
    • Tangled Hair
    • Woahnows
    • Emperor Yes
    • Doctrines
    • Bad Grammar
  • The Blackout
  • Canterbury
  • Lonely the Brave
  • The Wytches
  • Slaves
  • God Damn
  • Nordic Giants
  • The First
  • Empire
  • Beasts
  • Cerebral Ballzy
  • DZ Deathrays
  • LostAlone
  • Blitz Kids
  • Baby Godzilla
  • Black Moth
  • Youth Man
  • Tigercub
  • Emperor Chung
  • The Cream Tangerines

    • The Allotment

    FridaySaturdaySunday

    • Follow You Home
    • Tilted Smile
    • Base 8
    • The Fallows
    • VerseChorusVerse
    • Zara Kershaw
    • The Black Hands
    • The Boy I Used to be
    • ElleKaye
  • Camp Stag
  • One Bomb
  • Crystal Seagulls
  • Bella Diem
  • Exile84
  • Hungerhoff & The Wild Roots
  • Doug Panton
  • Damon Downs
  • Knaves
  • White Giant
  • Jamie Joseph
  • Huskies
  • Crystal Bats
  • Escape To New York
  • Redfaces
  • Joint Honours
  • Stealing Signs
  • 5 Days of November
  • Bleachroom
  • Turn It Up Project

    • The Hog & Barrel

    Y Not Festival 2013

    Line up

    Big Gin Stage

    FridaySaturdaySunday

    • The Horrors
    • Mystery Jets
    • Reverend and the Makers
    • Willy Moon
    • Dutch Uncles
    • Dizraeli and the Small Gods
    • The Virginmarys
    • Acollective
    • I Am Giant
    • Dexters
  • The Cribs
  • Ash
  • Kids in Glass Houses
  • 65daysofstatic
  • Swim Deep
  • Drenge
  • Sky Larkin
  • Pylo
  • Fiction
  • Naymedici
  • The Darkness
  • The Enemy
  • The Joy Formidable
  • The Twang
  • We Were Promised Jetpacks
  • King Pleasure and the Buscuit Boys
  • The Temperance Movement
  • Dolomite Minor
  • China Rats
  • Dingus Khan

    • The Quarry

    --------------------Friday----------------------------------------Saturday----------------------------------------Sunday--------------------

    • Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip
    • Chapel Club
    • Stealing Sheep
    • Public Service Broadcasting
    • Sons and Lovers
    • Propellers
    • Jaya Beach-Robertson
    • Huskies
    • The Natterjacks
    • Hector
  • Deaf Havana
  • The 1975
  • Temples
  • Chloe Howl
  • Jack Martello
  • Waylayers
  • Seasfire
  • Alaskan Faction
  • These Mortal Cities
  • Siblings
  • Dry the River
  • Electric Six
  • Lewis Watson
  • Toy
  • The Family Rain
  • The History of Apple Pie
  • Young Kato
  • Georgie Rose How
  • Saint Raymond
  • Mountain Shmountain

    • The Allotment

    --------------------Friday----------------------------------------Saturday----------------------------------------Sunday--------------------

    • The Struts
    • House of Thieves
    • The Swiines
    • Neutralize
    • Bad Bad Wow
    • Eva Plays Dead
    • Lux Lisbon
    • The Sons
    • John Ainsworth
    • Beth Morris
  • Park Bench Society
  • Kappa Gamma
  • Jack Shaw
  • WhiteMoor
  • I Am In Love
  • Injured Birds
  • Micro Jupiter
  • Taylor and the Mason
  • Harley Likes Music
  • Satsuma Elephants
  • Little Night Terrors
  • Dark Horses
  • Wrongkong
  • Shout Timber
  • Charlotte Carpenter
  • Three Minute Heist
  • The Fontana Instincts
  • The Silver Arms
  • Blue Sunday
  • Fleet Arts - Turn It Up Project

    • The Giant Squid

    --------------------Friday----------------------------------------Saturday----------------------------------------Sunday--------------------

    • Three Trapped Tigers
    • Johnny Foreigner
    • Max Raptor
    • Stagecoach
    • Axes
    • Gunning for Tamar
    • My First Tooth
    • Crushing Blowa
    • Delta Sheep
    • Whisky Stain
  • InMe
  • Mallory Knox
  • Arcane Roots
  • Throwing Up
  • Gnarwolves
  • Micro Jupiter
  • Zico Chain
  • Evarose
  • My Preserver
  • The Hush
  • The St Pierre Snake Invasion
  • We Are The Ocean
  • Wolf Alice
  • The Computers
  • Wet Nuns
  • Maybeshewill
  • The Physics House Band
  • Rat Attack
  • Scholars
  • The Pineapple Thief
  • AK/DK

    • Y Not Festival 2012

    The 2012 festival was held between 3–5 August. The festival was headlined by The View, The Wombats and We Are Scientists. The festival returned to its usual site in Pikehall.
    The festival saw the return of its three music stages, the "Big Gin Stage", "The Quarry" and "The Allotment", plus the introduction of a new stage "The Giant Squid".

    Line up

    Big Gin Stage

    FridaySaturdaySunday

    • The View
    • The Pigeon Detectives
    • Frightened Rabbit
    • King Charles
    • Jake Bugg
    • Sound of Guns
    • Fixers
    • Shields
    • FOE
    • Smiling Ivy
  • The Wombats
  • British Sea Power
  • Reverend and the Makers
  • Vintage Trouble
  • Summer Camp
  • Cast of Cheers
  • The Good Natured
  • Rams Pocket Radio
  • Vadoinmessico
  • Black Fuzz
  • We Are Scientists
  • The Subways
  • Hadouken!
  • Future of the Left
  • Frankie and the Heartstrings
  • Federation of The Disco Pimp
  • Cashier No 9
  • Young Aviators
  • The Crookes
  • The Black Hands

    • The Quarry

    --------------------Friday----------------------------------------Saturday----------------------------------------Sunday--------------------

    • Ghostpoet
    • Little Comets
    • Various Cruelties
    • BIGkids
    • Jim Lockey
    • Proxies
    • ME
    • By The Rivers
    • Park Bench Society
    • Lucy Spraggen
  • Pulled Apart By Horses
  • General Fiasco
  • Kind Pleasure and the Biscuit Boys
  • Juan Zelada
  • Bastille
  • Boat To Row
  • Jenny O.
  • Crushing Blows
  • Kagoule
  • The Rash
  • Roots Manuva
  • Slow Club
  • Lucy Rose
  • Phantom Limb
  • Masters in France
  • Max Raptor
  • Son of Eagle
  • Martin Luke Brown
  • Indiana
  • Frankie Rudolf

    • The Allotment

    --------------------Friday----------------------------------------Saturday----------------------------------------Sunday--------------------

    • Naymedici
    • Spotlight Kid
    • Tray Electric
    • Long Dead Signal
    • The King Bains
    • The Maffa Kings
    • Taylor and the Masons
    • Cocktail Mondays
    • The Family Rain
    • The Stand
  • Escape To New York
  • The Quangos
  • Auction for the Promise Club
  • The Fallows
  • The Barnum Meserve
  • The Kickliner
  • House of Thieves
  • Neon Railroad
  • Ethan Ash
  • The Vibe
  • Hudson Super Six
  • Frontiers
  • Mantandasun
  • Alex Blood and Diggers
  • Great Scott
  • Micro Jupiter
  • Yearbook
  • The Boobytraps
  • These Mortal Cities
  • Aphrodite and the Alphabet

    • The Giant Squid

    --------------------Friday----------------------------------------Saturday----------------------------------------Sunday--------------------

    • Rolo Tomassi
    • Canterbury
    • Straight Lines
    • Brontide
    • &U&I
    • Delta Alaska
    • Juniors
    • Alright the Captain
    • Scatty Neighbours
  • I Like Trains
  • The XCERTS
  • Turbowolf
  • Hawk Eyes
  • Tall Ships
  • Freeze The Atlantic
  • InFlightProgram
  • Without Maps
  • Trillionaires
  • Lower Than Atlantis
  • Exit Ten
  • Marmozets
  • Black and Reds
  • Fever Fever
  • Them Wolves
  • The Hush
  • Bleech
  • Troops of Mafeking

    • Y Not Festival 2011

    The 2011 festival was held between 5–7 August. The festival was headlined by The Go! Team, Feeder and Maxïmo Park. The festival was once again located in Pikehall.
    The festival had three music stages:
    The festival won two categories at the UK Festival Awards, the grass roots festival award and the prize for the best toilets.

    Line up

    Big Gin Stage

    --------------------Friday----------------------------------------Saturday----------------------------------------Sunday--------------------

    • The Go! Team
    • The Rifles
    • The Duke Spirit
    • Futures
    • Tellison
    • The Milk
    • All The Young
    • Mean Popa Lean
    • You Slut
  • Feeder
  • New Young Pony Club
  • Miles Kane
  • Dinosaur Pile-Up
  • Egyptian Hip Hop
  • Dutch Uncles
  • Stagecoach
  • 26
  • The Struts
  • Maxïmo Park
  • Viva Brother
  • Sonic Boom Six
  • Admiral Fallow
  • Tribes
  • Dog Is Dead
  • King Pleasure & the Biscuit Boys
  • Films of Colour
  • Yunioshi

    • The Quarry

    --------------------Friday----------------------------------------SATURDAY----------------------------------------Sunday--------------------

    • Jamie Woon
    • Polarsets
    • Dave McPherson
    • Karima Francis
    • Ex Lovers
    • Jake Morely
    • You Animals
    • Elliott Morris
    • Hhymn
  • Beardyman
  • Wolf Gang
  • Swimming
  • Benjamin Francis Leftwich
  • Yaaks
  • Middleman
  • By The Rivers
  • I Am In Love
  • The Fontana Instincts
  • Art Brut
  • Dananananaykroyd
  • Pete and the Pirates
  • Zambula
  • Beans on Toast
  • Redtrack
  • Nina Smith
  • Jake Bugg
  • Daydream Club

    • The Allotment

    --------------------Friday----------------------------------------SATURDAY----------------------------------------Sunday--------------------

    • Max Raptor
    • These Waves
    • Tilted Smile
    • Son of Eagle
    • These Mortal Cities
    • Fixit Kid
    • Scutty Neighbours
    • JonPaul Palumbo
    • Severn
  • Mabel Love
  • Starlings
  • The Rash
  • TBA
  • The Fideal Effect
  • Si Tew
  • Stayaways
  • Tribute to Nordberg
  • The King Bains
  • The Hush
  • James Warner Prophecies
  • The Sons
  • Whitemoor
  • RightClickSaveAs
  • Crushing Blows
  • From Eleanor
  • Ejectorseat
  • TBA

    • 2010

    The Y Not Festival in 2010 was headlined by The Futureheads, The Subways and The Mystery Jets. Other acts included Blood Red Shoes, Los Campesinos, Darwin Deez, King Pleasure and the Bisuit Boys, OK Go, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, Twisted Wheel, Turin Brakes, Rox, Little Comets, Kid British, Daisy Dares You, Slow Club, Goldheart Assembly, Jim Lockey & The Solemn Sun, Tubelord, Foy Vance, Max Raptor, Fenech Soler, Sparrow and the Workshop, THePETEBO, Doll & The Kicks, Sketches, Matthew P, Morning Parade, 51/50s, Kill It Kid, and North Atlantic Oscillation.

    2009

    The Y Not Festival sold out in 2009. The line up on the main stage included The Sunshine Underground, The King Blues, Noah and the Whale, Young Knives, Nine Black Alps, Shotshotstacy, and Esser. Beardyman and Frank Turner were on the acoustic stage. The festival featured many other artists and DJs over the three days of live music.

    2008

    The third Y Not Festival was again held at Pikehall, Derbyshire. The festival expanded agfurtherain and around 2000 people attended over three days. Bigger and more well known acts such as the Mystery Jets, Cage the Elephant, and Frank Turner were on the bill, though neither the Mystery Jets or Cage the Elephant turned up.

    2007

    The Second Y Not Festival was at held at a new venue, Pikehall, Derbyshire. This allowed the festival to sprawl over a larger area. Around 1000 people attended over the three days.

    2006

    The first Y Not Festival was held in a quarry in Derbyshire. Around 500 people attended over three days. Many of the bands that played were unsigned or local. A DVD documentary was made about this festival.

    Big Gin

    Before it was even known as Y Not Festival it was a small gathering of sixth form pupils from Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Ashbourne. The gathering had a few local bands and a couple of DJs played on two nights.