Ghazza: Beaches’ teen rock band rips into reckless e-bike riders in new song
A teen rock band with a cult following on Sydney’s northern beaches has ruthlessly ripped into reckless e-bike riders with the release of its new song. See the video
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A teen rock band has ruthlessly ripped into reckless young e-bike users on the northern beached with the release of its new song that bags hoodie wearing and vape smoking riders.
Self-described psychedelic grunge rockers Ghazza, made up of four local boys sitting the HSC, sarcastically diss the dangerous actions of irresponsible bikers in their TikTok video.
Lead singer Xavier Brown, 17, who goes to Freshwater Senior Campus, wrote the music and the song’s lashing lyrics, calling it “DiroDis” — a reference to the brand of electric-powered bicycles favoured by Beaches’ youths.
Xavier slams riders who don’t wear helmets, ignore red lights and pilot the e-bikes while using their mobile phones.
In the video clip, Xavier says the song “goes out to all the idiots on the northern beaches” riding the “DiroDi Rovers”.
He sings that riders wear White Fox-brand hoodies, and don’t wear safety helmets because they’ve got their “jorts (long-legged jean shorts) and Crocs”.
“Four on the back, ready to go.”
“F--- the cars, we own the road,” the song continues as the riders hit Manly, “Freshy” and Mona Vale.
Xavier goes on to sing that while the rider is “suckin’ on my strawberry vape,” he is headed for Newport “can’t be late”.
“Sitting on my e-bike throne, ran a red, I was on my phone”.
Xavier said he was sitting in a maths class, coming up with ideas for new songs when it occurred to him how much he was annoyed by e-bikes and “people getting nailed by them and riders acting irresponsibly on the roads”.
“They modify them, they speed them up.
“So I thought I’d try and impersonate one of the riders in a song, and see how it went.”
Xavier, who does not own an e-bike, said the band’s satirical take on the issue was also a way of urging riders to ride more safely.
“I was trying to voice the opinions of a lot of people my age, my friends, who’ve seen what some of these idiots are doing on the bikes.
“A fair amount of people aren’t happy with them either.”
Xavier said Ghazza started out as a punk road when it formed during Covid in 2021, but had evolved into the grunge rock band that now plays regular gigs across the northern beaches, and beyond.
As well as Xavier, Ghazza has Bede Russell, who also goes to Freshwater Senior Campus, on drums along with two students of Balgowlah Boys High, Toby Spence on guitar and bassist Kennan Ayala.
Ghazza has already released an album that has netted more than 10,000 streams.
The band also gets more than 450 listeners a month on Spotify.
Xavier said they will be headlining a concert at Queenscliff Surf Life Saving Club on Friday, May 23.
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