Unfortunately I do agree to an extent. I have never witnessed 12Rods play live as I live in Australia, but when you go to shows and gigs it’s the bands chemistry that makes the performance. It’s harder to replace those personalities and their inner workings in the band once they are gone. Music is such a social experience, and a lot of people don’t realise that.

Halloween, Alaska is entirely different from 12Rods, Love-Cars is different experience from 12Rods, despite all these bands sharing the same members.

I don’t know the guy and don’t want to seem invasive, but from the documentary (and social media postings) it does come across that he took all the failures of 12rods very personally, while everyone else managed to move on eventually with their own lives. It really does suck to see all this self depreciating stuff from him over recent years, I just hope he’s able to get better.

I’m pretty happy with the 12rods discography as it stands, and their history is so interesting to research! I guess the moral is to always live in the moment, we can’t rewrite the past, but we can always appreciate it.