1 Tapestry Goes West festival
Didn't make it to Glastonbury to watch your tent float towards the White Stripes? Don't worry - the spirit of the 1970s hippy festival is alive and well and coming to a cowboy town in the wilds of Cornwall later this month. This tiny two-day event has no backstage area, no corporate sponsorship, and no shortage of community spirit, as small but perfectly formed rock, folk and country bands including Circulus, the Tokyo Dragons and Simple Kid take to the wooden stages they probably helped build half an hour earlier. Last year, organiser Barry Stilwell had to pawn his vintage Fender guitar to pay for the posters. With everyone that attended 2004's 1,000 capacity Tapestry raving about it, and some of the bands going on to big things (such as the Magic Numbers), it is unlikely he will have to again .... so book now.
· July 29 and 30, Spirit of the West, nr Newquay, Cornwall (tapestryclub.co.uk)
2 Abstractions of the Industrial North by Basil Kirchin
Jazz drummer Basil Kirchin, who died last week after 10 years suffering from cancer, made a concept album about the northern factory landscape in 1966. It was his masterpiece, and a simply beautiful, elegant, timeless piece of classical jazz, but it was never released commercially until the week of his death. As a result this has become an artistic epitaph to a great, albeit undervalued talent, who might finally be getting the attention he deserved.
· Out now on Trunk Records
3 Billy Childish Is Dead
Long-time Billy Childish fan Graham Bendel was determined to make a film about the Chatham-based musician, poet, novelist, artist and all-round workhorse. Then he discovered that nobody wanted to help him achieve his goal, least of all the film's controlling leading man, who made it his mission to insult Bendel for all it was worth. Bendel's film exists against the odds, which is presumably how self-proclaimed outsider Childish would have wanted it, and features footage of Childish's current band the Buff Medways alongside commentary by Shane MacGowan and director Larry Clark, plus various insights into the Childish mind.
· Cherry Red, £15.99
4 Horace Ové - Film-maker and Photographer
As seen in last week's Friday Review, Trinidad-born Ové is one of the great chroniclers of black postwar Britain and the Barbican is staging a rare retrospective of his films. Highlights include 1975's A Hole in Babylon, a dramatisation of an incident in 1975 when an attempt by three teachers to finance an African studies programme for black British children ended with a siege in an Italian restaurant in Knightsbridge; and 1970's Reggae, the first-ever film on black British music.
· Tomorrow and Sunday, Barbican Centre, London EC1 (0845 120 7527)
5 Say No to 0870
When you dial an expensive 0870 number, a percentage of the charges may well be going to the company you are calling. But these companies also have to provide a standard rate line for overseas callers, and there is nothing to stop you from using it. This altruistic website lists these equivalent numbers of many well-known companies, thereby saving you money, and striking a tiny blow against the cash-grabbing frenzy of the telecom business.
6 To the Ends of the Earth
The BBC's three-part adaptation of William Golding's Sea Trilogy stays faithful to the writer's goal of transposing the intricacies of the English class system to life on board a 19th-century ship, in which callow aristocrat Edmund Talbot undertakes a journey from England to Australia. Benedict Cumberbatch stars as the young hero, leading a cast that also features Sam Neill and Jared Harris.
· Wednesday, 9pm, BBC2
7 Without a Paddle - the Malcolm Hardee Story
Hardly known beyond the world of comedy but a legend within it, Hardee was a significant if not successful comedian who gave up a life of crime to start a new trend: running a club where anyone could get up on stage. Arthur Smith profiles the charming reprobate, who died earlier this year when he fell out of a boat.
· Tuesday, 11pm, R4
