Music
Jo Hook
Jo Hook will be performing on May 14th at 8pm
Bill Rutherford
Bill Rutherford will be performing on May 17th at 8pm
Paul Dunton
Founder of Local And Live Music Festival Paul Dunton tells TW Social about the Live Stream Concerts he has set up during the lockdown.
Jennifer Lee Ridley
Jennifer Lee Ridley will live stream her concert on April 29th, 8pm
Aaric Snook
Aaric Snook will be performing on April 27th, 8pm
Toby (Summit Of The Big Low)
Summit of The Big Low will be performing on May 1st, 8pm
Michael Crowther
Michael Crowther from 'Son of Kirk' will be performing on May 2nd, 8pm
Duke Lloyd
Duke Lloyd will be performing on May 11th, 8pm
Raven
'Raven' from The Orange Circus Band will live stream his concert on April 30th, 8pm
Shep
Shep will be live streaming on May 4th, 8pm
Local And Live
Local And Live aims to promote public appreciation of and education in the arts and music by delivering a free to attend community festival, to include the performance of live original music and spoken word and other music-related educational events and opportunities
The Forum
The Forum is an independent music venue in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent with a standing capacity of 250. The venue opened in 1993, the building having previously been a public toilet.
Isolation Playlists
Isolation music playlists presented by The Forum to get you through your days, these are tunes for isolation and beyond!
Live Shows
Missing your fix of live bands? Don't worry The Forum have got you!
DJ Sets
Over the coming weeks The Forum will be adding DJ sets from their favourite guest DJs to keep the house party going.
Paul Bradley
Paul Bradley (Captain Hook in the Assembly Hall Theatre’s panto Peter Pan, also known for his roles in Eastenders and Holby City) spreads a little happiness as time goes by.
Coronavirus Time Capsule | Week Two
Our group of teenagers take a look at home life during the pandemic quarantine in our series of week-by-week records of the pandemic through the eyes of young people.
Coronavirus Time Capsule | Week One
Our group of teenagers introduces The Coronavirus Time Capsule, a series of week-by-week records of the pandemic through the eyes of young people.
Coronavirus Time Capsule | Week Three
Who are we? The teenagers taking part introduce themselves and who they are in the time of quarantine in our series of week-by-week records of the pandemic through the eyes of young people.
Best Ration Book Recipes
Have you got what it takes to become a kitchen legend with a mouth watering war time meal? Inspired by the VE Day celebrations, this week’s challenge is to recreate a war time inspired recipe. For some meal ideas why not visit the VE Day page of TW Social. Entries for this challenge have now closed.
Jo Hook
Jo Hook will be performing on May 14th at 8pm
Bill Rutherford
Bill Rutherford will be performing on May 17th at 8pm
Curator Talk Podcast: Episode One, The Birth of Tunbridge Wells
Join Ian Beavis for the first instalment of The History of Tunbridge Wells.
Paul Dunton
Founder of Local And Live Music Festival Paul Dunton tells TW Social about the Live Stream Concerts he has set up during the lockdown.
Pet Portraits
Does your pet look like you? Do you look like your pet? Do you and your pet like dressing up? This theme is open to interpretation and creativity. Entries for this challenge have now closed.
Local And Live
Local And Live aims to promote public appreciation of and education in the arts and music by delivering a free to attend community festival, to include the performance of live original music and spoken word and other music-related educational events and opportunities
The Forum
The Forum is an independent music venue in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent with a standing capacity of 250. The venue opened in 1993, the building having previously been a public toilet.
Coronavirus Time Capsule | Week Five
Masks, cowboys, tape measures and... a dinosaur?! The young people tackle the topic of Social Distancing in this week’s Time Capsule.
Coronavirus Time Capsule | Week Four
School. Gravity, Flowers, Baking, Biology and Coronarobics with Billy are all covered by the young people in the fourth week of our time capsule.
Coronavirus Time Capsule | Week Six
Painting, bath bombs and pillow fights - letting off steam with our young people in part six of The Coronavirus Time Capsule.
Coronavirus Time Capsule | Week Seven
Pizza topped with pizza. Roasted bananas. Lava cakes. And a ham sandwich in our Food week of The Coronavirus Time Capsule.
Curator Talk Podcast: Episode Two, Reinventing Tunbridge Wells
Join Ian Beavis for the second instalment of the history of Tunbridge Wells.
Podcast
Matt and Dave from The Forum talk all things stable, new bands, old experiences and not a virus in site. Fortnightly updates including interviews and a playlist of music from artists playing the venue as well as their inspirations! Subscribe and follow us for a new podcast every fortnight!
Philip Martin Brown
Local actor Philip Martin Brown, best known for roles in Waterloo Road and Coronation Street , reads the lovely lyrics of Stanley Holloway’s marvellous poem Albert and the Lion.
Jo Hook
Jo Hook will be performing on May 14th at 8pm
Bill Rutherford
Bill Rutherford will be performing on May 17th at 8pm
Sonnet 1
Sir Patrick Stewart reads Sonnet 1.
Sonnet 2
Sonnet 2. This is one of my favorites.
Sonnet 3
Sir Patrick Stewart reads Sonnet 3.
Jennifer Lee Ridley
Jennifer Lee Ridley will live stream her concert on April 29th, 8pm
Aaric Snook
Aaric Snook will be performing on April 27th, 8pm
Sonnet 4
Sir Patrick Stewart reads Sonnet 4.
Sonnet 6
Sonnet 5 is too hard. Here’s number 6.
Sonnet 7
Sir Patrick Stewart reads Sonnet 7.
Sonnet 8
Sir Patrick Stewart reads Sonnet 8.
Sonnet 10
Sir Patrick Stewart reads Sonnet 10.
Sonnet 11
Sir Patrick Stewart reads Sonnet 11.
Sonnet 12
Sir Patrick Stewart reads Sonnet 12.
Sonnet 13
Sir Patrick Stewart reads Sonnet 13.
Sonnet 14
Sir Patrick Stewart reads Sonnet 14.
Sonnet 15
Sir Patrick Stewart reads Sonnet 15.
Sonnet 16
Sir Patrick Stewart reads Sonnet 16.
Sonnet 17
We've reached Sonnet 17, a mini landmark in these 154 sonnets.
Sonnet 18
Sonnet 18. Perhaps the most well-known sonnet in the book. Speaking of the book, a little backstory on that too.
Sonnet 19
Sir Patrick Stewart reads Sonnet 19.
Sonnet 21
Sir Patrick Stewart reads Sonnet 21.
Sonnet 23
Sir Patrick Stewart reads Sonnet 23.
Sonnet 24
Sir Patrick Stewart reads Sonnet 24.
Sonnet 25
Sonnet 25. An unusual one, which I had never read until today.
Sonnet 26
Sir Patrick Stewart reads Sonnet 26.
Sonnets 27 & 28
Double feature. Sonnets 27 and 28.
Sonnet 29
Sir Patrick Stewart reads Sonnet 29.
Sonnets 29 & 30
Another take on Sonnet 29 and Sonnet 30, new to me but have grown fond of it.
Sonnet 32
Sir Patrick Stewart reads Sonnet 32.
Sonnet 33
Sir Patrick Stewart reads Sonnet 33.
Sonnet 34
Sir Patrick Stewart reads Sonnet 34.
Sonnet 35
Sir Patrick Stewart reads Sonnet 35.
Sonnet 36
Sir Patrick Stewart reads Sonnet 36.
Sonnet 37
Sir Patrick Stewart reads Sonnet 37.
Sonnet 38
Sir Patrick Stewart reads Sonnet 38.
Sonnet 39
Sir Patrick Stewart reads Sonnet 39.
Sonnet 40
Sonnet 40 with my friend Glen.
Sonnet 41
Sonnet 41 over an iced coffee.
Sonnet 42
Sir Patrick Stewart reads Sonnet 42.
Sonnet 43
Sir Patrick Stewart reads Sonnet 43.
Sonnet 73
Sonnet 73 for Sir Stirling Moss.
Jo Brand
Jo Brand reminisces fondly on her time as a young girl in Tunbridge Wells. She also recently played at Trinity.
Toby (Summit Of The Big Low)
Summit of The Big Low will be performing on May 1st, 8pm
Michael Crowther
Michael Crowther from 'Son of Kirk' will be performing on May 2nd, 8pm
Duke Lloyd
Duke Lloyd will be performing on May 11th, 8pm
Raven
'Raven' from The Orange Circus Band will live stream his concert on April 30th, 8pm
Shep
Shep will be live streaming on May 4th, 8pm
Nick Knowles
Nick Knowles tells us about being a native of Tunbridge Wells and presents us with a piece of poetry from his childhood.
Robert Daws
Robert Daws reads one of his favourite poems by Sir John Betjeman, Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death in 1984. The poem is ‘A Subaltern’s Love Song’ a humorous, upbeat poem that tells of the real life love the poet had for Miss Joan Hunter Dunn.
Dvořák’s Song to the Moon
The ENO Orchestra’s clarinets practicing responsible social distancing while preforming Dvořák’s Song to the Moon.
Sandra Dickinson
Sandra Dickinson played the Assembly Hall Theatre in 1982. Here she reads Shakespeare’s take on beauty Sonnet no 2.
Paul Bradley
Paul Bradley (Captain Hook in the Assembly Hall Theatre’s panto Peter Pan, also known for his roles in Eastenders and Holby City) spreads a little happiness as time goes by.