DJ Hannah Laing makes 'heartbreaking' decision to cancel 2027 Doof in the Park

DJ and producer Hannah Laing said she has made the "heartbreaking" decision to cancel her Doof in the Park festival next year.

Laing said "valuable planning time" had been lost due to "behind the scenes" issues that needed to be resolved.

She said, as a result, her team did not have enough time left to "deliver the festival to the standard that you all know from Doof."

The event has run in the city's Camperdown Park for the last two years, with the latest event attracting 17,000 people.

The festival had been set to take place on 3 July next year.

In a video posted to her social media, Laing said she was "so gutted" at the decision to cancel the festival.

She added: "And it makes it even harder knowing how many of you had already bought tickets and how well the festival was selling again.

"And it's honestly mental to think that 17,000 of us were able to come together in my wee home city of Dundee for the festival."

Laing said she and her team had spent the last few weeks "working day and night, trying absolutely everything we possibly could to make it work."

She said she was "super grateful" to have built such an "amazing community with Doof."

"But unfortunately there's been things going on behind the scenes that needed to be resolved before we could move forward with the planning of the festival," she said.

"Now, because of how long that has taken and the fact we weren't able to properly move forward while this was ongoing, we've lost a huge amount of valuable planning time.

"And realistically we've now reached a point where we just do not have enough time left to deliver the festival to the standard that you all know from Doof and that we've worked so hard to build."

Laing said the last thing she wanted was to "rush something just for the sake of making it happen."

She said that, given her personal involvement in all aspects of planning the festival, she did "not feel comfortable trying to force it in the time we've got left."

Laing added that everyone who had bought a ticket for the event would receive a full refund.

Laing first gainded attention with her edit of the early 2000s song Murder on the Dancefloor, which went viral on social media.

Her 2023 track Good Love, a collaboration with vocalist RoRo, reached the UK top 10 and was certified platinum.

She has also performed at festivals including Glastonbury, Creamfields, TRNSMT and Parklife, and held a residency at Ibiza's HI club.