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‘She’s one of us!’ The dizzying rise of Hannah Laing, Scottish dental nurse turned superstar doof-doof DJ
The Dundee producer’s hard dance has won her millions of listeners and an Ibiza residency. But for Laing, nothing beats giving back to her community – starting with a huge hometown festival
In the centre of a dancefloor in a Dundee park, a group of athleisure-clad teens are dancing to a Crazy Frog remix with a middle-aged couple wearing head-to-toe smiley face print. While hard dance is often derided or ignored in the media and polite society, Laing’s music – insistent, almost aggressively euphoric – has a large and committed following: 2.7 million people listen to her each month on Spotify and Doof in the Park sold out its 15,000 tickets within a week. Photograph: Eddy HubbleAs well as hard dance legends such as Armin van Buuren and Lisa Lashes, Laing booked local DJs for the Highlander tent, styled after “the bar in Ibiza where I had my first residency, which I wanted to pay homage to.
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