Scots DJ Hannah Laing has been going from strength to strength all year from gigs at TRNSMT and Creamfields and is now taking the plunge to focus on music full-time.
Hannah, 28, is a rising star in the music scene and has performed alongside Hollywood A-lister Idris Elba during his sets in Ibiza. The Dundee-based DJ had been working full time as a dental nurse as well as continuing her impressive stint in the party island all summer, but has now quit her job to focus solely on music.
Speaking to the Daily Record, Hannah said: “It’s obviously something I’ve always wanted to do music full time but more recently as things have blown up more. I was touring in the summer and I was DJing in Ibiza at the weekends and straight back into work on the Monday, so it’s been difficult. I think things were just getting too much so I knew it was the right time to leave.
“I am extremely nervous but also excited, it’s just because this is it, this is my full-time job so obviously there’s pressure there but at the same time I’m absolutely buzzing. This is what I’ve always wanted. It’s a pure dream.”
It hasn't been an easy journey for the Scots music sensation, as she was left devastated when the pandemic hit cancelling all of her gigs and her full-time employment at a dental practice.
After losing her two streams of income, Hannah who has 35.4k followers on TikTok, had to find others ways to make money and opted to take any job she could. She explained: "When the pandemic hit all the dentists closed and I lost all my gigs, so I had to just find any job I could get.
"I tried to work in the chicken factory, I tried to work at Hermes and I ended up working at a Tesco call centre for a good while before I could get back into the dentist.
"It was absolutely mental going from DJing every weekend to doing jobs that you’re not really a fan of, but I think now looking back it’s good to see that I had to go through that to get here. But at the time, I did genuinely think I might not get to DJ again."
However, after hitting a low point during the pandemic Hannah has fully turned her career around and has hit some major milestones. This year the disk jockey has performed at TRNSMT, Creamfields, BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend and even wowed Calvin Harris as he watched her perform as Luther actor Idris Elba's supporting act.
Speaking of her career highlight so far, Hannah added: "What really changed my life was my Creamfields set in August just passed because I was playing at a huge stage alongside huge artists, but that meant I was on first for the day. I was on at 2pm so I was kind of worried it wasn’t going to be busy but the stage filled up full within about 15 minutes of my set.
"I had so much Scottish support there, there was loads of Scottish flags and it was at that moment where I realised ‘Woah’. I didn’t even know that many people knew who I was. It was really then that I really knew I could do this.”
The Scots DJ is set to play her first ever Glasgow gig at SWG3 on December 23 2022, which sold out within just hours of tickets being released.
Hannah's latest track, her own take on the Sophie Ellis Bexter classic Murder On The Dancefloor will be released on streaming services tomorrow, Friday October 28.
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