After an incredibly hectic (but fun) 2009, the Sydney Festival organisers took a step back for their third Festival First Night: going for quality, not quantity - getting rid of the Fuzzy stage, spreading out the stages at Martin Place, and giving the City of Sydney a night it won't soon forget. 

If there is one musical event which has come to encapsulate Summer in Australia, there's no argument that it's the Big Day Out
- the 2010 edition of which has now sold out around the country,
despite a lineup born out of a recycling bin. But in Sydney, there is a
parallel force for our Summer, full of original and often awe-inspiring energy, coming to signify the season for many: Sydney Festival. "This is Our City in Summer," indeed.