While Melbourne slumbers in its theatre down-time, Sydney has got out its gladrags for the Sydney Festival. And our blogger colleague Nicholas Pickard is blogging it for the Daily Telegraph. Today he takes issue with the festival dissenters who are lamenting the lack of theatre and art music. (Slugging the local festival is a favourite Australian sport, up there with sacking cricket umpires). Actually, I'm with the arts snobs: I wouldn't mind seeing Joanna Newsome with the SSO, but give me Melbourne's October arts orgy any day...