Y Not Festival

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. ^[1]

Line up

Big Gin Stage

The Quarry

The Giant Squid

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.^[2]

Line up

Big Gin Stage

The Quarry

The Giant Squid

The Allotment

The Hog & Barrel

Y Not Festival 2013

Line up

Big Gin Stage

The Quarry

The Allotment

The Giant Squid

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

The Quarry

The Allotment

The Giant Squid

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.^[3]

Line up

Big Gin Stage

The Quarry

The Allotment

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.

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