Noise Control

Like everyone else in the community, we were shocked to hear the pet rooster had been shot and when I heard the name of the animal control officer who pulled the trigger was Mr Wolff I immediately thought it would make a great documation.

– Phill Simmonds, in a November 2008 Dominion Post interview

We're sort of influenced by a lot of old blues ... Hendrix, Janis Joplin ... that sort of stuff.

– Joe the Rooster to a TV reporter, on his rock-a-doodle-do musical style

I think it just comes down to the fact that it's a sound I enjoy ... it might not be something that someone else would necessarily enjoy.

– Joe the Rooster gets empathetic with the neighbours

In Kuala Lumpur no one gives a stuff: a chicken dies and you put it in a pot and curry the bugger! But yeah ... This is New Zealand.

– Reporter Gurunathan Krisnasamy on how the fracas would go down in Malaysia