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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“I should say that the most prominent scientific men of our country, and perhaps of this age, are either serving the arts and not pure science, or are performing faithful but quite subordinate labors in particular departments. They make no steady and systematic approaches to the central fact.... There is wanting constant and accurate observation with enough of theory to direct and discipline it. But, above all, there is wanting genius.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“all the arts lose virtue
Against the essential reality
Of creatures going about their business among the equally
Earnest elements of nature.”
—Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)