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:
“The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure—if you don’t like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don’t like it, you don’t understand and you ought to find out.”
—John Drummond (b. 1934)
“As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)