Shihad

aka Pacifier


Shihad began as a bunch of high school kids in love with American speed metal and became New Zealand’s most celebrated hard rock band.

Their long career has not been without crises. Early triumphs were overshadowed by the drug-related death of their manager and mentor Gerald Dwyer, while their name – adapted from the Islamic word "jihad" – almost spelt the group’s demise when the War On Terror broke out, just as the group were poised for a major launch in the USA. Yet they have prevailed – and all without a single membership change in 22 years.

Shooting Interconnector video in Auckland 1998
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Pacifier
Interview with Jon Toogood, Tom Larkin and Karl Kippenberger from Shihad, 21 July 1994. Directed by Ross Cunningham, art by Johnnie Pain. Wildside.
It and N.I.B/Born To Be Wild (live 1989)
1995 fax from Shihad manager Gerald Dwyer in Berlin to Wildside Records boss Murray Cammick
Photo credit: Murray Cammick Collection
2010 interview with RipItUp
Home Again
Shihad on the cover New Zealand Musician, June /July 2014
Tom Larkin and Jon Toogood - recording demos in Wellington
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Shihad - 1996 New Year's Eve party, Dux de Lux, Christchurch Arts Centre
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Cold Heart (Homegrown 2010)
Deb's Night Out
Dark Times
My Mind's Sedate
Station
Otis Frizzell and Bevan Sweeney - Stations video shoot 1994
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Tom Larkin
Photo credit: Murray Cammick Collection
Lead Or Follow
12XU (Wire cover)
Very early Shihad
Jon Toogood for Hot Metal magazine 1996
Beautiful Machine documentary (trailer)
Shihad, 2000
Jaz Coleman, Karl Kippenberger, Malcolm Welsford - Churn sessions at York St studio
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Jaz Coleman, Phil Knight, Tom Larkin, Malcolm Welsford - York St studio
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Karl Kippenberger - Churn tour, Powerstation
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Beautiful Machine
Jon Toogood 2011
Photo credit: Photo by Adrian Malloch
Tom Larkin
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Jon Toogood
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Gerald Dwyer and Shihad's Jon Toogood at the 1995 Big Day Out
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Yr Head Is A Rock
Derail
The General Electric (Alternative Video)
Phil Knight, Tom Larkin, Karl Kippenberger, Jon Toogood
Photo credit: Photo by Martin Romeis
Sleepeater
Wellington Town Hall, General Electric Tour 1999
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Wellington Town Hall, General Electric Tour 1999
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
All The Young Fascists
Shooting My Mind's Sedate video in Wellington with director Reuben Sutherland 1999
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Shihad at The Powerstation
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Shihad with Gerald Dwyer (in front)
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Big Day Out 1995
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Shihad - One Will Hear The Other (2008)
1999
Gimme Gimme
1993
NZ Musician October/November 2000
Shooting Interconnector video in Auckland 1998
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
La La Land
Phil Knight - Churn tour, Powerstation
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
You Again
Germany, 1994
Photo credit: Murray Cammick Collection
Jon Toogood, Cathedral Square Christchurch, World Aids Day Concert Nov 28 1997
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Homegrown Profile: Shihad (2005)
Ticket, flyer and orginal setlist from 20th March, 1999. Evelyn Hotel, Fiztroy, Victoria
Photo credit: Murray Cammick Collection
Becky Nunes shoots Shihad
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Bevan Sweeney and Jon Toogood - Stations video shoot 1994
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Think You're So Free (2014)
Shihad was inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame | Te Whare Taonga Puoro o Aotearoa in 2010. The Hall of Fame is an initiative of Recorded Music NZ and the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA), whose support of AudioCulture enables the site to stream music content.
Members:

Jon Toogood - vocals

Tom Larkin - drums

Karl Kippenberger - bass

Phil Knight - guitar

Hamish Laing - bass

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