Sam Fender tickets 2027 for Newcastle were pushed back 24 hours after a reported bot attack hit the Gigantic site handling the St James' Park pre-sale. Fender said the change was meant to keep the sale open to real fans, with the revised start now set for 09:30 GMT on Thursday.
“Being told that there's been a sophisticated bot attack to the Gigantic ticket site which is impacting the St James' Park pre-sale,” he wrote on Instagram. He then added: “We're going to have to move the Newcastle pre-sale to 09:30 tomorrow to ensure real fans get the tickets.”
Gigantic halts the sale
Gigantic said its system had detected an “unusually high volume of suspicious activity” and that the surge had produced error messages on the site. The company halted the pre-sale to protect fans, which turned a simple on-sale into a live ticketing problem for anyone trying to buy into the homecoming dates at St James' Park in Newcastle.
The practical effect is straightforward: anyone waiting for the Newcastle allocation now has a new window, and the old one is off the board. For buyers, that means the sale is no longer proceeding on the original timetable, and the site disruption has already changed the order of access.
St James' Park and The Proper Massive Stadium Tour
The disruption landed inside the rollout of The Proper Massive Stadium Tour, which Fender announced last week and which will visit Newcastle, Cardiff, London, Edinburgh, Dublin and Manchester. The Newcastle shows are the homecoming dates, so the pre-sale carries more weight than a routine tour stop.
Fender, who is 32, had already removed a ticket category from sale days earlier because he said he was unhappy with the costs for fans. He said those costs were out of his control, and the sequence of changes suggests the sale has been under pressure before any tickets reached the wider market.
London buyers, Newcastle pressure
A source told the they did not have any issues buying tickets for the London show, which suggests the problem was not universal across the tour rollout. That leaves the Newcastle pre-sale as the clearest test of whether the reset on Thursday restores a clean path for buyers at St James' Park.
The immediate next step is simple: anyone aiming for the Newcastle pre-sale now has to wait for 09:30 GMT on Thursday, and the site will have to prove it can handle demand without the kind of automated traffic that forced the delay. How many buyers were affected is still not answered, but the sale has already been moved once to give real fans another shot.
