Doof in the Park 2026: Dundee's Bold Park Festival Takeover

Nobody Asked Dundee to Go This Hard. Dundee Did Not Care.

Year one of Doof in the Park happened last summer and it basically broke Dundee in the best possible way. Fifteen thousand people showed up to a park. Armin van Buuren played. There was a Ferris wheel. People were crying. People were dancing. Some people were doing both simultaneously and that is honestly peak festival behaviour.

The debut ran three stages across one afternoon and evening and each stage had its own whole personality. Doof for Life on the main stage. Up the Doof for the underground heads. The Highlander for the locals and rising names who deserved the spotlight. Twenty five acts in one day at a park in Dundee. The audacity. The vision. The absolute nerve of it.

Hannah Laing closed the night herself, in her hometown, at her own festival, in front of the crowd that watched her grow up. Then she went home and immediately started building year two. Woman does not stop.

• The 2026 Lineup

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Paul van Dyk is on this lineup. That sentence alone. Paul van Dyk has been shaping the sound of trance for decades and he is showing up to a park in Dundee on a Saturday in July to remind everyone what this music is actually supposed to feel like. Respect is not a strong enough word.

Eddie Halliwell is also confirmed and if you have ever been in a crowd when Eddie Halliwell drops something you already know what July 4th is going to feel like. Your body will react before your brain catches up. That is the deal.

Then the second wave of announcements came and people lost their minds all over again because Lilly Palmer, Clara Cuvé, and ALT8 were added to the bill. Lilly Palmer in a park in Scotland is a sentence that should not be as funny as it is and yet here we are and it is perfect.

Dutch producer Maddix is in. NOVAH from Belgium is in. Odymel, the genre-blending selector who refuses to be put in a box, is in. The Rocketman, who worked with Hannah directly on a release through her Doof label, is in. And the rest of the lineup keeps going. Hannah Boleyn. MDDLTN. Matty Ralph. Bellini Beats. LOZ. SHVDZ. Tyler Jack. Aslø x Miss Frenxh. BR.ICKO x Leechy. David Rust x David Forbes. Ryan Keogh. The local and emerging names are not there to warm up the crowd and disappear. They are there because this is a festival that was built to actually mean something to the scene it came from.

• Hannah Laing's Journey

Former dental nurse. Dundee born and raised. Raver parents who got her on the decks before she had any business being on the decks. Zero industry connections. Just music, relentless work, and a very specific sound that she refused to compromise on regardless of what anyone thought about it.

She went from Harris Academy to Creamfields. From Dundee to Tomorrowland. From playing in a car park at LiveHouse Dundee as a little taster event to founding and headlining her own fifteen thousand capacity festival. In the same city she grew up in. This is not a redemption arc. There was nothing to redeem. This is just a person who was right about herself the whole time.

She also recently opened Doof Studios near where she grew up, a music facility for the community, and she now performs completely sober after working out that post-show partying was amplifying her performance anxiety rather than helping it. Three million monthly listeners. A UK Top 10 single with Good Love sitting at over a hundred and thirty seven million streams. A world tour that runs through basically every festival worth naming.

And she still comes home to Dundee and does the thing in the park. Because that is just who she is.

Camperdown Park Is About to Have a Moment Again

Three miles from Dundee city centre. Trees. Grass. Festival infrastructure. A Big Top main stage that held twelve thousand people last year and still felt like it was vibrating through the ground. Street food. A Ferris wheel. The full experience, not a field with a PA system and a prayer.

The park on a normal day is a very good park. On July 4th it becomes something that people will be talking about in September. Every year it becomes that thing.

About the Tickets

Gone. Sold out. Finished. The waitlist exists and you should join it because people are unpredictable and life is chaotic and sometimes a ticket frees up at the last minute. Twenty thousand people registered for early bird access and ten thousand tickets evaporated within hours of going on sale. Then two thousand more were released after the safety team found extra capacity. Those went too.

This is what happens when you build something real. People notice. Then they panic buy. Then it sells out before the lineup even fully drops. Then they announce more acts anyway just to make everyone who does not have a ticket feel specific emotions about it.