Behind The Scenes at Split Chain’s First Headline Show by William Green

Jasmine from Epitaph Records asked if I’d be down to shoot Split Chain’s first U.S. headline show at TV Eye.

I said yes, but only if I could spend the whole day with them. I get a little nervous before things like this; I tend to go all in with people right away, and sometimes that energy can be a lot. But they were totally on the same page. I wanted to cram everyone into the photo booth, but it was sadly out of order.

Earlier in the day, we’d joked about stage dives and how some people just don’t get stage etiquette.

Sure enough, once the band got on, two kids started aimlessly wandering the stage like they thought they were part of the show. Eventually one guy got the memo, I pointed to one of them and said, “See that dude? He’s your responsibility. Keep him off stage.” He just smiled and went, “Got it.”

 

Behind The Scenes w/ Midwife by William Green

I spent the night at Elsewhere with Midwife, documenting their set as they opened for Blood Incantation. Madeline Johnston calls the music heaven metal, which makes more sense once you are standing inside of it. Slow guitars stretching out until they barely feel like guitars anymore, vocals floating somewhere underneath, everything heavy without needing to become loud about it.

For this post, I printed a portrait of Madeline onto the end sheets of an old book I found discarded on the street, the paper already carrying its own little history before the image ever touched it. It felt fitting. During the set, 16mm textures flickered across the projection screen behind her, washing over the stage and disappearing again while the songs moved at their own pace. I included some of that footage here too, along with the portrait and a few photographs from the night.

JPEGmafia “Lay down my life tour” NYC by William Green

I woke up to a text at 4am from Kat letting me know that the venue was not going to let us do video as we originally planned, So I got out of bed and started to unpack all the VHS cameras and rebuild my gig bag to be more photo focused. I did keep my PXL2000 and Ruvi in my bag incase there was a moment we could do some video which is what the tour bus clip below is from.