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Glastonbury Festival 2011

Glastonbury Festival 2011
View of Glastonbury Festival from the Park Stage as crowd arrives for Pulp, 2011.jpg
A view over the Glastonbury festival from the Park Stage, Saturday 25 June 2011
Date(s) 22 June 2011 (2011-06-22)
26 June 2011 (2011-06-26)
Location(s) Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset, England

The 2011 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts was held from 22–26 June 2011. Tickets for the festival went on sale from 9 am on Sunday 3 October 2010, over 37 weeks before the festival was set to begin, with a deposit of £50 being paid, while the whole cost of a ticket is £195 (+£5 booking fee and postage and packaging).

Half the tickets were sold within the first 2 hours and a quarter of the tickets still available by 12pm despite issues with people purchasing tickets. Tickets sold out in 4 hours.

On 15 February, Coldplay were announced the Saturday night headliner on the Pyramid Stage. Later on the same day, Emily Eavis confirmed that Beyoncé would headline on the Sunday evening.U2 were announced on 24 February as the Friday evening headliners.

Headline acts on the Pyramid Stage were U2, Coldplay and Beyoncé, performing on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday respectively; with Beyoncé as Glastonbury's premier finale for 2011.

U2
22:00-23:45
Morrissey
20:00-21:15
Biffy Clyro
18:15-19:15
B.B. King
16:30-17:45
Wu-Tang Clan
15:00-16:00
Two Door Cinema Club
13:30-14:30
Metronomy
12:05-13:00
Master Musicians of Joujouka
11:00-11:40

Coldplay
22:15-23:45
Elbow
20:15-21:30
Paolo Nutini
18:30-19:30
Tinie Tempah
17:00-18:00
Rumer
15:30-16:20
The Gaslight Anthem
13:45-14:45
Tame Impala
12:15-13:15
Stornoway
11:00-11:45


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