‘The bot situation is out of hand’: Attacks disrupt sales for Sam Fender and Garth Brooks
Organisers across both tours stopped on-sales, with one show cancelled following a flood of bots
News By Hanna Ellington | 29 October 2026
“Sophisticated bot attacks” disrupted high-profile tours from both Sam Fender and Garth Brooks in the past week, with a show from Brooks cancelled in the aftermath of the reported bot onslaught.
Artist pre-sale for Fender’s pair of hometown stadium dates in Newcastle was stopped yesterday (28 October) after organisers flagged an “unusually high volume of suspicious activity” resulted in error messages on the site, said Gigantic Tickets CEO Simon Carpenter after the fact.
The sale was pushed back by 24…
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