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Against a backdrop of struggling music venues and increasing challenges to artists to find new ways to engage their audiences, DV8Fest 2013 set out to go back to basics and showcase some great and upcoming talent.

I was very fortunate to be offered the opportunity afforded by a photo pass to Dark-Cide's first festival at 53 Degrees in Preston. I was even more honoured to find that I was only photographer in the pit covering the whole event!

In a digital world where even our musical instruments and cameras might be small computers I decided to go back to my live music photography roots and load up with some film.

Turning the handful of lights at a pub gig into something special.