 For the first year it went under the name of the Big Gin Festival (a play on its location near Biggin in the Peak District).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 (to 15,000 in 2015) and eventually relocating to its current site at Pikehall in Derbyshire.