Home is where the festival is - Sunday Times:"Stuck at home with young children and unable to get to gigs, Neil McKenna came up with an ingenious solution. The music lover launched his own festival.
"From humble origins five years ago, the Darvel music festival in rural Ayrshire has grown from a handful of performances by local pub bands into a 12-day event attracting more than 30 acts from around the world....
"Despite its growth spurt, McKenna, 44, and his wife, Sheila, still run the event as a labour of love. They do everything themselves, from finding sponsors to arranging the PA system and the lighting, printing programmes, organising a liquor licence, transport and accommodation.
"The couple like to make the musicians feel at home, quite literally, by offering many of them a bed for the night at their comfortable Edwardian house on the outskirts of town....
"In a smart marketing move, McKenna insists that any band signing up for Darvel cannot play Glasgow, so that fans in Scotland’s biggest city are forced to make the 30-minute drive down the M77 to see their favourite acts."
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