This is my hometown festival in some ways, and I only get nervous performing when I know people in the audience.
In my view Launch Festival 2012 was a huge yawn.
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We did this for a spring festival project, my business partner and I.
Finally, at the end of my second night at the music festival I had a breakthrough.
When I sit back and think over the life of my career, the first jazz festival I performed in was at the Monterey Jazz Festival in the early '60s.
"My admiration for the steadfast mission of the Festival to champion the international language of movies is second to none, " he added.
My first full day at the Venice Film Festival begins with a screening of Burn After Reading, the new black comedy from the Oscar-winning Coen brothers.
You see, I can't seem to find my love anywhere, except at the occasional blues festival.
Not long after, it became obvious that my bag, a freebie from the National Book Festival, was a mini-compost pile, with a pretty obvious lining of various meat and vegetable sleazes.
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Electronic tickets were less common back then, and the festival organizer had written to tell me that my ticket would be waiting at the KLM counter at the airport.
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But at least I know where it's taking place, having spent my first few hours on Italian soil yesterday familiarising myself with the festival HQ.
For reasons still not completely clear to me, my entire body was sore the morning after Figment, an annual grassroots participatory art festival that is touring the United States.
On the last night of the Edinburgh festival, in another small, dark, drunken venue, I waited for my brother to go on.
In Iwate prefecture, where my father is from, I recall how the entire township would get excited about a summer festival.
Biffy Clyro also picked up the best festival rock act ahead of Bloc Party, Elbow, The Raconteurs and Bullet For My Valentine.
"The hardest thing for me is not being able to see my friends, " she said as the girls reluctantly headed back toward the train station as the festival drew close to an end.
From my seat, in the snowy wilds of western Pennsylvania, where I happened to be when this festival began, the experience of logging in and watching was by no means perfect, but that wasn't the show's fault.
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The duo won the vote for best festival pop act, best live newcomer and anthem of the summer for That's Not My Name.
Other highlights during the three-week festival this May will include a world premiere celebrating the Britten Centenary Year, and the UK premiere of My Life After by Argentine playwright and performer Lola Arias.
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