“It’s really the bane of my life,” Lauran Hibberd laughs, reflecting on an incredulous moment that would become a lifelong nuisance: her name. That’s right – it’s Lauran, not Lauren. “My dad spelled it wrong on the birth certificate. It’s not intentional, but I’m 100 per cent sure my parents must’ve had a big fallout about it. Imagine, my mum’s just given birth to me and he’s gone and messed up his one job!” Sure, there are bigger issues out there… but you want to have your own name spelled right. And that’s the thing with Lauran: it’s the little details that really matter. It’s Thursday afternoon and the singer has been spending most of her day scrawling her signature onto prints, which is apparently “very painful on the old hand”. Taking a break from the oh-so-taxin...
