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DEFINING CULTURE IN THE NORTH WEST

  • FEATURES >

    • Grassroots: Inside the World’s Only Lawnmower Museum

      Grassroots: Inside the World’s Only Lawnmower Museum

      Kyle MacNeill
    • The Roma Nation of Bolton

      The Roma Nation of Bolton

      James Varney
    • Travelling Home: A Pilgrimage to Appleby Horse Fair

      Travelling Home: A Pilgrimage to Appleby Horse Fair

      Juliet Klottrup
    • BACK TO LANCS: A Natter with Rainy Miller

      BACK TO LANCS: A Natter with Rainy Miller

      Luke Charnley
    • “We All Knew a Fire Was Coming to Hotspur”: Manchester’s Endemic of Wilful Neglect

      “We All Knew a Fire Was Coming to Hotspur”: Manchester’s Endemic of Wilful Neglect

      Hayley Flynn
    • Roy Jay: How An Obscure Northern Comedian Became An Internet Demon

      Roy Jay: How An Obscure Northern Comedian Became An Internet Demon

      George Francis Lee

    OPINION >


    • Thomas Steeles

      FAC OFF: Stop Kissing the Haçienda’s Arse

      A spectre is haunting the North West – the spectre of the Haçienda. It’s time we got up and beat our nostalgia-drenched hangover.

    • Jessie Jones

      An Ode to Edgelands

      Gone wild, the unkempt land of former industry is brimming with green potential.

    • Gee Collins

      Somehow (The River Finds a Way)

      Precarity and lack of agency dominate the mind of the contemporary artist, Gee Collins shows a shift is necessary.

    • The STAT Tap Sommeliers

      Wet Yerself: The Best (and Worst) Tap Water in the North West

      We lay out the best places to wet your whistle in the North West.

    STORIES >


    • Henry Meggitt

      How Turning Up At The “Purple Aki Meet And Jeet” Made Me Come To Terms With My Own Deeply Rooted Sexual Neuroses

      In the wake of Arobieke’s death, posters circulated telling of a Meet and Jeet”, we sent a dispatch.

    • Luke Charnley

      Impressions of Speke

      A sift through Grandma’s old diaries gives us a glimpse into mid-century life in the Scouse suburbs

    • Jair Rathour-Bell

      The Time I Broke into Scorsese’s Dressing Room

      One desperate filmmaker tries his luck in the ambush of Martin Scorsese

    • Rosy Wilson

      The Women of HMP Forest Bank

      The state’s hand is heavy, but no match for the camaraderie of HMP Forest Bank’s visitors

    REVIEWS >


    • Connor James Seed

      A Quiet Room – Tales of Other Minds Productions

      There is a crisis in masculinity, commentators have opined. A Quiet Room asks whether this crisis is a new phenomenon at all.

    • Isaac Rose

      Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain – Sam Wetherell

      Attentive to the interlocking dynamics of race and class, the work globalises Lancashire, using its famous port as a prism to understand our current crises.

    • Tilly Foulkes

      5 ST★R COWBOY – Elijah Right?

      Glossy and pristine production, and a zippy playfulness that bounces around via winding hyperpop melodies and 90s video game samples.

    • Hayley Scott

      hexed! – aya

      This isn’t Northern grit as romantic mythology but as lived trauma – post-industrial decay where the rave eats itself.

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