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"My Dream Still Isn’t Enough to Sustain Me" — Tomorrowland DJ Annabel Stop It | find your frequency
Annabel Stop It had already tried to make it in music once. Community radio in Brixton. A show on Radar Radio. She gave it everything, couldn’t pay her rent, and walked away. Took a 9-to-5. Put the DJ dream in a drawer.
Then during lockdown, she set up a Twitch stream with no plan and started playing for whoever would listen. Four years later: 6.5 million views on a single set, Leeds Festival to 20,000 people, a Tomorrowland debut, an Adidas partnership, and a community that shows up every two weeks like clockwork.
In this episode, Annabel talks about why you have to be bad to start with, the set she almost didn’t go to that changed everything, what it felt like to cry backstage at Leeds, why her dream still isn’t enough to sustain her financially, and how she manages a community of thousands by name.
Community questions from TheEnough (@theenough_official), Plaedoha (@plaedoha), and Peint (@Peint_oficial).
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