Y Not Festival

This article is about the music festival. For the album by Ringo Starr, see Y Not.

Y Not Festival
Genre	Rock, Alternative rock, Indie rock, Dance, World music, Punk rock, Electronic music, Reggae, Folk music, Hip hop.
Dates	first weekend in August, usually
Location(s)	Peak District, England
Years active	2006 – present
Founded by	Ralph Broadbent
Website
ynotfestivals.co.uk

The Y Not Festival is an annual music festival held in Pikehall, Derbyshire, United Kingdom.

Y Not Festival 2015

The 2015 festival was held between 31 July–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

FRIDAY	SATURDAY	SUNDAY
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

FRIDAY	SATURDAY	SUNDAY
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

FRIDAY	SATURDAY	SUNDAY
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

FRIDAY	SATURDAY	SUNDAY
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

FRIDAY	SATURDAY	SUNDAY
Reel Big Fish Tom Vek Circa Waves Josh Record Itch Night Engine Flyte Last Days of Disco Joel Baker Cammie Robinson	British Sea Power Ella Eyre (Pulled out due to illness, replaced by Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly) Saint Raymond Shlomo Nothing but Thieves Best Friends Beans on Toast Ady Suleiman The Gorgeous Chans These Mortal Cities	Newton Faulkner Bipolar Sunshine Little Comets Eliza and the Bear Darlia Luke Sital Singh Amber Run House of Thieves Prash Gor The Pylons

The Giant Squid

FRIDAY	SATURDAY	SUNDAY
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

FRIDAY	SATURDAY	SUNDAY
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

FRIDAY	SATURDAY	SUNDAY
The Sons Flat 24/7 Alex Blood and The Diggers Tom Peacock David Lacey Matt Henshaw Fusion Keto Karl and the Marx Brothers Ben Farmer Secret Set Tall Trees Three Minute Heist Herron Brothers	The Most Ugly Child Mo Morris and The Struggling String Band James Dalby Josh Kemp Niall Fitz Kai Swarvett Duncan Oakley (COMEDY) Phil Lucas (COMEDY) Misk Hill Mountain Ramblers Anywyn Williams Josh Savage Harriet Jonathan Eagles Grawlix	Roger The Mascot The Philharmonics Ryan Thomas Lindsay and Bobby Jamie Scott The Raymond and Mr Timkins Revue (COMEDY) Laura Lexx (COMEDY) Jamie Beau BB Black Dog Scribble Victory Lonely Robot Steve Faulkner 94 Gunships

Y Not Festival 2013

Line up

Big Gin Stage

FRIDAY	SATURDAY	SUNDAY
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 Kimberley Anne 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 3 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

FRIDAY	SATURDAY	SUNDAY
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 Maximo Park. The festival was once again located in Pikehall.

The festival had 3 music stages:

• The Main Stage called "Big Gin Stage" which has been named after the first festival
• A smaller stage called "The Quarry" named after the location of the 2006 festival
• "The Allotment" was a new addition to 2011 which hosted a variety of local bands. "The Allotment" stage was named after a competition was held on Facebook and Twitter.

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	Maximo 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. Along with Beardyman and Frank Turner on the acoustic stage. Plus 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 once again 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 2 nights.