On The Agenda: We've got a hankering for Herzog this week

Music
From the home of Radiohead, Supergrass and the Foals comes a festival that's not so much a festival as a big street party (albeit indoors). On 10 October, down Cowley Road in the east of Oxford, 10 bands will be playing 10 venues, including The Big Pink, receiving rave reviews for debut album A Brief History of Love and critics' favourite Stornoway. Staged by the team that puts together the Truck festival, this local music spectacular will be supplemented by poetry performances and an open-mic event. Time to warm up that larynx.

Fashion

The shows in London last week had their eye on what we'll be wearing next summer, but some of us haven't sorted our autumn wardrobes yet. Take a tip from those in the know and revamp with a versatile high street investment. Stylist Beth Dadswell's top buy is a Whistles silk biker blouse, £85, (www.whistles.co.uk): "It looks great with a mini, pencil skirt or skinny jeans and eases the conversion from office to night out." Stock up also on ballet flats in this season's lively animal prints, £150, from Pretty Ballerinas (www.prettyballerinas.com). "Wear them with your favourite LBD or black leggings, and your feet will thank you for years to come." For more advice from Beth, visit www. mypersonalstylist.co.uk
Harriet Walker

Radiohead fan can appreciate Mozart

IT HAS BECOME a ritual: I scan the buzzing black, white, and gold sea that is pre-concert Symphony Hall as usual, mine is one of maybe five vernal faces in sight. Then I turn to my septuagenarian neighbor and ask, “How long have you been a BSO fan?’’ The answer is almost constant, “Since I was young!’’ I look around again and wince.I am 19, a musician, and one of Boston’s 250,000 college students. I absorb great music indiscriminately: on my iPod, Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro’’ cheerfully mingles its refulgence with Animal Collective’s “Feels’’ and Radiohead’s “Kid A’’ somberly holds forth with Messiaen’s “Quatuor.’’I know I’m not the only young musical omnivore around, but something odd is happening here. The Boston Symphony Orchestra, surely one of the world’s most exciting orchestras, also offers one of the world’s greatest student discounts. The $25 College Card guarantees access to 15 BSO concerts plus, cardholders receive a text message whenever extra tickets are available. By the end of the season, it covers almost 30 concerts less than a dollar a night to sit in seats that normally cost $80. A season’s pass to the BSO costs college kids about one-third the price of a decent seat at a DMB show. So why isn’t Symphony Hall overflowing with 18 to 22 year olds every night?The answer isn’t “These kids are off with their Twitter and their ‘NYC Prep.’ ’’ Many of my peers are sensitive, passionate listeners (just stop by a Grizzly Bear or St. Vincent concert), and many of us listen to music that demands the same spiritual engagement and intellectual openness that Brahms and Adams do. The leap from Deerhoof to Stravinsky is miniscule when classical music is presented the right way; one indie rock expert friend of mine became a bona fide opera nut after I insisted he experience Verdi’s “Otello’’ and I didn’t present it as an exotic excursion into high culture. I presented it as one of the richest manifestations of love and torment we have as humans. Just like “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.’’But most of my peers have never been forcefully urged to treat classical music (whatever that term means) as an confidant, vital experience. I never see, say, a pair of college age friends at Boston Lyric Opera on a Friday night only the occasional loner, the occasional family with a bored teen in tow.Hmm. I thought live music was a social activity. On this front, the BSO and other major arrangement are not blameless. The College Card should be sharply advertised at every area school: now, it’s hard to find even on the BSO website. Also, the atmosphere at Boston concerts might strike a first timer as stuffy: We do not have a venue like New York’s Le Poisson Rouge, which blends the best of classical, indie, and jazz with appropriate ease.But ultimately, fellow students, it’s up to us. Time to occupy the concert hall. Classical concerts need not be exercises in cough stifling. I regularly wear a T-shirt and jeans to the BSO it’s fun to give the lingering Koussevitzky ites a mild shock, since I know Mahler’s just asempyreal sans tux and react to the music with a vocal passion. I cheered myself hoarse for Barenboim, Levine, and Carter last year, and I booed Teatro Lirico’s apathetic “Aida’’ with equal fervor. Audience participation didn’t start in 1962 a knowledgeable, demanding audience has been the sustaining force of every culture with music at its heart, from fin-de-siecle Vienna to New Orleans in the 1920s.So don’t treat classical music as a once-a-year excuse to dress up and get a nice dinner. It is music. It’s meant to be loved by the young, hormone crazed masses, loved the very same way we love Radiohead and the Arcade Fire. It should lie at the center of everyday life, spark our wildest conversations and profoundest thoughts, be the soundtrack to falling in love. There’s a galaxy of music in our city that wants our love, and I know we’ve got it in us.

Radiohead's Thom Yorke announces two solo songs

The Hollow Earth and FeelingPulledApartbyHorses are to be released under the Radiohead frontman's own name – though he is considering a new moniker: Thomosexual

Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke will release two new songs in September on limited connection 12". The Hollow Earth and FeelingPulledApartbyHorses are to be released under Yorke's own name, although there are signs that he is regarding a new moniker or even a new backing band for his solo project.
"Dear Sir or Madam," Yorke wrote yesterday on the official Radiohead blog. "This is to inform you of the release of two more bits of work shortly ... Both were created by Nigel Godrich as ever. And mastered by Bob Ludwig. They are being put out on 12" with shredded sleeve by Stanley (Donwood) and (myself)."
Radiohead and Yorke have been busy these last few weeks. Largely dormant since 2007's In Rainbows, the band released a tribute to first world war veteran Harry Patch at the start of August. These Are My Twisted Words, another new track, was posted to their website just weeks later. Yorke has also recorded a cover of All for the Best, primitively by US band Miracle Legion, which will appear on a Miracle Legion tribute album and limited edition 7" later this month.
Both FeelingPulledApartbyHorses and The Hollow Earth have been maturation in Radiohead vaults for some time. The former, Yorke wrote, is a "radical rework of an old tune" from 2001, written and performed with Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood. The "bass menace" of The Hollow Earth was, meanwhile, apprenticed for Yorke's 2006 solo album, The Eraser, "but wanted a little more time".
The forthcoming 12" will be released in shops and at Radiohead's online store on 21 September. According to a source at Canadian distributor Sonic Unyon, there many be as few as 4,000 copies available in Europe (North America will receive another 4,000). Digital versions of the tracks will go on sale on 6 October.
Billboard reports that Yorke is considering touring this material later in the year. Rather than play solo, he may even perform with a band and it won't needfully be Radiohead. "These days it's all getting kind of blurry," Yorke wrote. The singer is also resultedly considering new names for his solo project.
He sais, "Thomosexual," suggested Adam Buxton in an interview with Yorke, "(or) the Duke of Yorke." Yorke preferred T.Homme. "(It's) kind of sophisticated,"