Y Not Festival has named four headliners for its 20th anniversary edition, with Nile Rodgers & CHIC, Blossoms, Fatboy Slim and The Kooks topping the bill at Pikehall, Derbyshire, from Thursday 29 July to Sunday 1 August 2027. Tickets go on sale on Friday 13 November 2026. Fans can sign up for pre-sale access at ynotfestival.com/2027-pre-sale.
Special guests Bastille and Sugababes join a first wave that also includes Embrace, Everything Everything, DMA’s, Feeder, Gabrielle, Groove Armada (DJ set), Heather Small, Holly Humberstone, Inhaler, La Roux, Lightning Seeds, Ocean Colour Scene, Razorlight, The Coral and Tinie Tempah. Organisers say more names are still to come.
Nile Rodgers & CHIC open the weekend on Thursday 29 July. Rodgers, co-founder of CHIC, has a career spanning more than five decades, six Grammy Awards, more than 500 million album sales and 75 million single sales. Hits with CHIC include ‘Le Freak’, ‘I Want Your Love’ and ‘Good Times’, with later collaborations taking in David Bowie, Diana Ross, Madonna, Beyoncé and Daft Punk.
Nile Rodgers said: “Twenty years of the Y Not Festival deserves a proper party, and throwing proper parties happens to be what CHIC does best. The Peak District is going to be one big dance floor, and we’re all going to be on it together.”
Stockport’s Blossoms headline Friday. Tom Ogden, Charlie Salt, Josh Dewhurst, Joe Donovan and Myles Kellock broke through when their self-titled debut topped the UK Albums Chart in 2016. Fan favourites include ‘Charlemagne’, ‘Your Girlfriend’ and ‘I Can’t Stand It’. Their latest album, Songs From The Wedding Cake, became their fifth UK number one in October 2026.
Fatboy Slim, the BRIT Award-winning DJ, musician and producer Norman Cook, headlines Saturday for the first time at Y Not. Anthems include ‘Praise You’, ‘The Rockafeller Skank’ and ‘Right Here, Right Now’, and this year he marked 30 years of debut album Better Living Through Chemistry. Collaborators across his career include Rita Ora, Iggy Pop, Dizzee Rascal, Sir Idris Elba and The Rolling Stones.
Fatboy Slim said: “I can’t wait to play at Y Not Festival for the first time next year. I’ve heard great things about the Peak District and can’t wait to see what the festival has to offer. We’re gonna eat, sleep, rave, repeat all weekend long. I’m looking forward to the summer already. See you in the fields!”
The Kooks close the festival on Sunday. Their 2025 album Never/Know reached the UK Top 5, their highest chart position since 2008’s Konk, and an arena tour that year ended at The O2. This year they marked 20 years of debut Inside In/Inside Out with outdoor shows built around ‘Eddie’s Gun’, ‘She Moves In Her Own Way’, ‘Ooh La’, ‘Always Where I Need To Be’ and ‘Naïve’. The band have more than 900 million Spotify streams.
Luke Pritchard of The Kooks said: “Y Not has always been a proper festival, the muddy, gloriously messy kind that’s run by people who love music. Twenty editions from a back-garden party is a hell of a story, and we couldn’t be prouder to be headlining the birthday. We’ve had our own twentieth this year, so it feels like two old friends having a party together.”
What began as a house party in 2005 is now one of the Peak District’s biggest weekends, mixing an all-genre line-up with comedy, cabaret, food and drink, and site spaces including The Hog & Barrel, the revamped Strawberry Fields family area, and dance stage Sub Culture. The 2025 edition, headlined by The Prodigy, Courteeners and Madness, was followed by a 2026 bill topped by The Libertines, The Reytons, Two Door Cinema Club and The Streets.
Also announced today, in A to Z order, are Adult DVD, Arkayla, Basht, Beans on Toast, Cherryholt, Chloe Slater, Cowboy Hunters, DMA’s, Embrace, Esmeralda Road, Et Al, Fat Dog, Feeder, Gabrielle, Girl In The Year Above, Groove Armada DJ, Hannah Grae, Heather Small, Inhaler, King Pleasure & The Biscuit Boys, La Roux, Lightning Seeds, Little Grandad, M60, Man/Woman/Chainsaw, Mr Motivator, Nieve Ella, Overpass, Razorlight, Red Rum Club, Saint Clair, Slates, Sports Team, The Cheap Thrills, The Coral, The K’s, The Lancashire Hotpots, The Molotovs, The North, The Scratch, Tinie Tempah and Tooth. The press material also lists Holly Humberstone and Ocean Colour Scene.
Kevin Moore, Festival Director, said: “Celebrating 20 years of Y Not is a huge milestone for us, and we wanted to mark it with a really special line-up. From legendary headliners to exciting new talent, 2027 is all about celebrating everything that makes this festival what it is. We can’t wait to welcome everyone back to Pikehall!”
Further line-up news is expected after tickets go on sale. Full details are at ynotfestival.com.
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