One tout lists more than 2,000 U2 tickets for London shows at inflated prices

A tout has listed more than 2,000 tickets for U2’s 2027 London shows on StubHub, with the advertised prices potentially bringing in over £1m. The listings have renewed calls for the government to ban ticket resale for profit and raised questions about whether professional traders used bots or speculative selling to obtain tickets.

The four Tottenham Hotspur Stadium concerts sold out soon after tickets went on sale. A snapshot found 7,819 U2 tickets listed on StubHub: 562 were from private sellers, while the rest included tickets held by professional traders; one seller advertised more than 1,800 for a single night, some at over four times face value. StubHub says it prohibits bots and speculative selling, while Ticketmaster says it blocks 20 billion bots a month; the government says it plans to bring forward anti-touting legislation during the current parliamentary session.