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). It was the last regular edition of Glastonbury until 2013, to make way for the 2012 Summer Olympics and

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Ticket sales

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,

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were announced the Saturday night headliner on the Pyramid Stage. Later on the same day,

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confirmed that Beyoncé would headline on the Sunday evening. U2 were announced on 24 February as the Friday evening headliners.

Line-up

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.

BBC Introducing stage

The BBC curate a stage at Glastonbury each year showcasing new talent. This year saw performances from

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, F-Block, The Good Natured,

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, amongst others.

Secret gigs

Secret gigs on the Park Stage saw Radiohead (Friday) and

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(Saturday) perform to large crowds.

Weather

The gates opened on Wednesday to rain and heavy showers persisted making the car parks and the festival site a muddy terrain. Dry conditions on the Friday soon made way for yet more rain early afternoon and didn't stop until the Saturday lunchtime. Sunday was non stop sunshine which dried out the site.

Records

The 2011 festival also broke two television viewing records. Firstly, 18.6 million viewers tuned in from their own homes throughout the festival. A new record for the

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