The Arts
The town's largest theatre is the Assembly Hall in Crescent Road, which has a capacity of 1,020.
Nearby, in Church Road, is the Trinity Arts Centre which is a converted church.
The Forum is a 250-capacity live music venue in the town, run by Jason Dormon, where many bands have played their early concerts on their way to success.
The town has a thriving hip hop scene, with graffiti and rap music being very popular with many of the teenagers and youth in the area. Evidence of this is the newly opened graffiti art store Overspray (http://www.overspraygallery.co.uk/contact). The UK hip hop artists Debaitable (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYotbXVLSKA) and Bennadict (http://soundcloud.com/benaddict) are active in the area.
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Famous quotes containing the word arts:
“In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay—in solid cash—the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)