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.

Wellington Town Hall, General Electric Tour 1999
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Malcolm Welsford, Jaz Coleman, Phil Knight - Churn sessions at York St studio
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Tom Larkin
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Jon Toogood for Hot Metal magazine 1996
1995 fax from Shihad manager Gerald Dwyer in Berlin to Wildside Records boss Murray Cammick
Photo credit: Murray Cammick Collection
Home Again
Cold Heart (Homegrown 2010)
Derail
Beautiful Machine documentary (trailer)
Tom Larkin
Photo credit: Murray Cammick Collection
La La Land
Dark Times
1993
Shooting Interconnector video in Auckland 1998
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
The General Electric (Alternative Video)
Shihad - One Will Hear The Other (2008)
Gimme Gimme
Shihad on the cover New Zealand Musician, June /July 2014
My Mind's Sedate
Phil Knight, Tom Larkin, Karl Kippenberger, Jon Toogood
Photo credit: Photo by Martin Romeis
Shihad with Gerald Dwyer (in front)
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Jaz Coleman, Karl Kippenberger, Malcolm Welsford - Churn sessions at York St studio
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Becky Nunes shoots Shihad
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Karl Kippenberger - Churn tour, Powerstation
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Shihad at The Powerstation
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Station
NZ Musician October/November 2000
1999
Otis Frizzell and Bevan Sweeney - Stations video shoot 1994
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Jon Toogood
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
12XU (Wire cover)
Jaz Coleman, Phil Knight, Tom Larkin, Malcolm Welsford - York St studio
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Tom Larkin and Jon Toogood - recording demos in Wellington
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Wellington Town Hall, General Electric Tour 1999
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Jon Toogood 2011
Photo credit: Photo by Adrian Malloch
Phil Knight - Churn tour, Powerstation
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Shooting My Mind's Sedate video in Wellington with director Reuben Sutherland 1999
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
1990 - Jon Toogood, Phil Knight, Tom Larkin, Hamish Laing
Lead Or Follow
Bevan Sweeney and Jon Toogood - Stations video shoot 1994
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
It and N.I.B/Born To Be Wild (live 1989)
Shooting Interconnector video in Auckland 1998
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Beautiful Machine
Think You're So Free (2014)
All The Young Fascists
Very early Shihad
You Again
Big Day Out 1995
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
2010 interview with RipItUp
Jon Toogood, Cathedral Square Christchurch, World Aids Day Concert Nov 28 1997
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Beautiful Machine (Red Bull Studios 2008)
Pacifier
Interview with Jon Toogood, Tom Larkin and Karl Kippenberger from Shihad, 21 July 1994. Directed by Ross Cunningham, art by Johnnie Pain. Wildside.
Deb's Night Out
Gerald Dwyer and Shihad's Jon Toogood at the 1995 Big Day Out
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Germany, 1994
Photo credit: Murray Cammick Collection
Yr Head Is A Rock
Sleepeater
Shihad - 1996 New Year's Eve party, Dux de Lux, Christchurch Arts Centre
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Interconnector
Shihad, 2000
Homegrown Profile: Shihad (2005)