“First of all, I think people watching the video saw me as grandpa playing music, and then suddenly it changed to people wanting to listen. They love the banging techno!”
At 67 years old, Nick Hayes is gearing up for the next stage of his new career as a techno producer and DJ. Since retiring from the auto industry at the end of 2023, The Last DJ (as Hayes is known online) has garnered hundreds of thousands of views with his tutorials and performances on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and Threads, where he’s amassed a combined total of 360,000 followers. He beams enthusiasm through my laptop screen, each word brimming with excitement and a palpable passion: “I’m concentrating on writing music – you can get very distracted with social media and everything else, but I’m preparing.”
