The young people in New Zealand’s “siren clubs” say they’re expressing themselves by blasting the loudest, cleanest sound from their speakers.
Canadian singer Celine Dion performs in Quebec City in 2019 on the opening night of her world tour. Groups of young people cruise the streets of Porirua, New Zealand, in the dead of night, their cars and bicycles stacked with high-powered speakers designed to emit the loudest, clearest sounds.
Siren clubs are made up mostly of young men, many of them in Porirua’s Pacific Islander community, known as Pasifika, Baker said. They get together to modify cars and bicycles with public-address system speakers, which they call sirens. They spend hours wiring and soldering multiple sirens and amplifiers to car frames or onto bicycles. Before battling, they must also become DJs, remixing songs with the goal of producing a sound that is not only loud, but also clean.
The battles outlived the World Cup festivities and continued throughout the summer, Baker said. They abated a bit over the winter — but never died out — and have reemerged as summer in New Zealand approaches.implored the Porirua City Council to “act and stop the gathering of car meets blasting music and emergency sirens noises at all hours of the night.” More than 325 people have since signed it.
that could be difficult, given that they spring up spontaneously at unpredictable locations. Residents calling in to report noise complaints often cannot home in on the source. And even when they can, the competitors have often taken off by the time police arrive.Baker said that, even though the subculture grew out of the Pasifika community, she hopes it doesn’t get blamed for what she described as handful of bad actors turning a positive community celebration into a nuisance.
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