What is FAN?
FAN is a hybrid, phygital magazine existing between screen, print and lived space.

It explores:

Culture: the scenes, styles and subcultures that define Northern identity.

Memory: the archives, venues and vanished spaces that still echo.

Desire: the longing for futures that feel both familiar and new.
FAN is not nostalgic; it is about the unfinished business of lost futures.

Why Now?

The North is full of stories. Some remembered, some half forgotten, and they deserve a magazine.

The region is thick with half remembered stories: demolished venues, family albums, bootleg fashions, forgotten lookbooks.

New scenes are emerging too, in repurposed mills, studios, student basements, and community spaces.

FAN exists to:

Document scenes before they vanish.

Reopen cultural spaces that no longer exist, through memory and image.

Connect students, practitioners and communities.

Bring institutions, independents and fans into the same conversation.

Make visible the North’s living, breathing archive.

Who FAN is For?

FAN is for:

Students and early career creatives,

Photographers, stylists, designers and writers,

Archivists, collectors and nostalgists,

Venues, galleries and cultural institutions,

Northern brands and independents,

Fans (always fans!) because fashion begins with desire.

What We’re Looking For?

People to help us build this magazine.
We want to hear from:

Editors, designers, art directors and digital leads,

Writers, photographers, filmmakers and researchers.

Archivists, collectors and curators.

Venues, shops, heritage organisations and brands.

Anyone holding a shard of Northern cultural memory: flyers, photos, zines, lost shoot archives, stories, lost venues.
Register your interest in FAN here, or by scanning the QR below.

Tell us who you are, what you do, and how you might contribute to our cultural and archival map of Northern culture.

FAITH

FASHION

FEAR

FICTION

FLESH

Culture. Memory. Desire.
FAN is a cultural and archival magazine for the North: a hauntological and psychogeographical space where old futures return, and past ideas ignite new creative energy. Part digital, part physical, part collective memory, FAN brings together photography, writing, sound and archives to map the North’s cultural pasts and imagine what comes next.

HOW FAN WILL WORK

Phase 1: Digital First

Multimedia features blending photography, audio, video and archival material. Short "signals": visual fragments, lost scenes, resurfaced shoots. A newsletter that tracks culture, memory and desire across the region.

Phase 2: Print + Physical Gatherings

Print editions as artefacts objects that feel unearthed from another decade. A curated series of live gigs across the North, alongside launch events, screenings, talks and exhibitions. Partnerships with galleries, universities, record shops and venues.

IN SHORT

FAN is a magazine built from the fragments of the North: scenes, ghosts, people, hopes. A collective project. A shared memory. A map of what was, what is and what might still be.

If the North haunts you too, join us.