Cultural References
Philip Larkin once wrote a poem entitled Sunny Prestatyn. In it he describes a poster advertising the resort that is progressively defaced by graffiti artists. Roddy Frame and Jeremy Stacey wrote most of Aztec Camera's 1995 album Frestonia during a three-week retreat at the Sands Hotel in Prestatyn. Frame later blamed the overcast and grim weather conditions resulting from Prestatyn being situated on the Irish Sea for the album's melancholy and gloomy tone.
In the 2009 Christmas special of British sitcom The Royle Family, Jim, Barbara, Dave and Denise go on holiday to the 'Pearl of Prestatyn', a holiday caravan park presumably in the town.
In Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge, Alan mentions that he used to go on all weekend benders in Prestatyn to see rock band Wings (band).
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“A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others, thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.”
—Jacques Barzun (b. 1907)