So anyone who knows me knows that my other passion from photography is music. I'm in a band called Delayed Departure (Plug Plug Plug!) And I'm always looking for ways of merging my two passions together. And this was a perfect way. Since photographing gig's, I have always wanted to go on tour with a band as a photographer.

I got a message from my good friend Chris from FAULTLINES asking me to hit the road with the boys across Birmingham, Hull, Leeds and Derby. Of course, I was gonna say yes. The tour as a whole was awesome and was what I needed. Love being put on the spot and every venue was different in size and lighting. So this is the first in a series of blogs about the tour.

Day One: Birmingham Subside

I was pretty pumped for the first show of the run. We arrived, loaded in and started setting up. I somehow got roped into helping with merch, because I'm a nice guy obvs. The venue was a long L shaped room, stage one end and then follow down the bar to wrap around to a pool table area. The stage was a few feet off the floor and a medium sized space for the size of the venue. Luckily for me, FAULTLINES have their own lighting rig. And that's one thing I will say if a band has their own lighting rig, synced to their backing track. It makes a massive difference to the atmosphere of the gig and the pictures. Blinders are my favourite for action shots.

With limited space, the boys still put on an energetic show. jumping around the stage, hopping in the crowd and kicking off the tour with a bang. It was very tight to get as many different angles for drummer shots but that's down to space. Whenever Ryan jumped into the crowd I'd move quickly to shoot a few of Sie.

As well as Photos, I was shooting clips of video throughout the set to do a montage of the night each day while out on the road. See the video of the night below with the photos under as well. All in all a big start to the run of shows. Next stop Hull.

- Charlie Bluck