STAT
  • TEAM
  • PITCH
  • CONTACT
ABOUT
BROWSE
EVENTS
SHOP

DEFINING CULTURE IN THE NORTH WEST

  • FEATURES >

    • BLACKPOOL’S THIRD WAVE: WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU’RE DOING NOTHING AT BLACK LIGHTS FESTIVAL

      BLACKPOOL’S THIRD WAVE: WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU’RE DOING NOTHING AT BLACK LIGHTS FESTIVAL

      Ella Glover
    • Ashton-in-Makerfield: The New Town That Wasn’t

      Ashton-in-Makerfield: The New Town That Wasn’t

      Hayley Flynn
    • Crewe City Emo: How UNIVERSITY Built the Country’s Least Likely Music Scene

      Crewe City Emo: How UNIVERSITY Built the Country’s Least Likely Music Scene

      Marty Hill
    • Blowjobs, Bust-ups, & Berghain: A Chat with Wigan DJ Wes Baggaley

      Blowjobs, Bust-ups, & Berghain: A Chat with Wigan DJ Wes Baggaley

      Edie Barnabas
    • The Scouse Stone Skimmers of Sefton Park

      The Scouse Stone Skimmers of Sefton Park

      Georgina Tyson
    • Blood, Sweat & Black Pudding

      Blood, Sweat & Black Pudding

      Connor James Seed

    OPINION >


    • Brandon Hayes

      Better Things Aren’t Possible, Despite What I Said Earlier

      A look into the future of Andy Burnham’s Labour Party.

    • Pete Mercer

      Editorial: Let’s Build a New Culture

      Across the country, the globe, people have been deprived of something intangible, something meaningful – the culture has changed.

    • 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.

    STORIES >


    • Mark Cunliffe

      The Economic League: A Shady Blacklist of Subversives

      Predating the McCarthyism of Cold War America, British industrialists compiled their own life-destroying list of alleged anti-capitalists.

    • Hayley Flynn

      The Man Who Built an Aeroplane

      Pilfering machinery from Parkside colliery, Ashton-in-Makerfield’s Geoff Martlew built a plane, crashed another, and won a Queen’s Commendation.

    • Tom Branfoot

      The Indigent: Agitators, Dinosaurs & Rural Resistance

      Not far from Warrington, the village of Lymm is littered with a radical history of working class resistance.

    • Lydia Phillips

      GAS NUTTER

      Twenty-four paranoid hours smelling gas in Longsight.

    REVIEWS >


    • Will Fisher

      We Paid Someone to Give our Gig a Bad Review

      “In collaboration with GMTU, the STAT team remind us why rats are generally loathed.”

    • Yushra Rashid

      Queen of the Night (Raat Ki Raani) – Alina Akbar

      Alina Akbar’s debut solo exhibition explores the intense emotions and companionship between young Muslim girls in a car after nightfall. 

    • STAT

      Club Beats, Tinnitus, and Sweet Treats: Attending the Black Lights Pre-Cursor

      “Have you ever heard music like this before?!”

    • Alex McCann

      New Brutality – YOSSARI BABY

      For two Brits and a French fashion designer who came together in Salford, Yossari Baby come across awfully… German.

LET’S BUILD A NEW culture.

STAT is dedicated to original, authentic writing from the forgotten North West. No ads. No paywalls. With your help, we can keep it that way.

BECOME A SUBSCRIBER. GET STAT IN PRINT.

  • Instagram
  • YouTube
  • Patreon

STAT MAGAZINE

Leigh Spinners Mill, Park Lane, Leigh, Lancs.

Anti-profit | © STAT MAGAZINE LIMITED

Loading Comments...

You must be logged in to post a comment.