I was very sad when 12th Avenue broke up. I understood why Mark had to do Idols and why they had to drop the name and focus on him but it never got better than those early years when they were just 4 supremely talented kids gigging around Cape Town and getting better and better all the time. I remember watching them at a festival when the crowd just wanted to see Fokofpolisiekar. I was raving to a few Stellenbosch students about just how good 12th Ave were but when they came on I could just see that these guys didn’t get it. It’s the old SA tragedy, young hungry band gives it there all and doesn’t get discovered and all that awesome music and unique chemistry is lost 🙁 Very fucking sad.