Shihad History

It would be good if people can put dates to things and pad this out and if necessary spin pieces off into their own pages, for instance the name change could be spun fairly easily. And also the album's already have their own pages. Also things don't need to be under specific date headings they can be more general of that time period.

2007

• Expected release of Beautiful Machine

2006

December-January 2007

Shihad does a NZ Tour with The Datsuns and Shaky Hands

2005

May

2nd

• Release of Love Is the New Hate

2004

• Announcement of their name change back to Shihad

2003

November

23rd

• Release of Live

2002

August

19th

• Release of Pacifier

1999

October

4th

• Release of The General Electric

1996

October

15th

• Release of Shihad

1995

July

27th

• Release of Killjoy

1993

July

12th

• Release of Churn
• The first single I Only Said reached #3 and the band spent the following 12 months touring Australasia expanding their fan base far in excess of what had been achieved during the previous two years.

January

• A brief alliance with Jaz Coleman of Killing Joke took place during the production of Churn.

Sometime

• Tom Larkin was enlisted to play on Killing Joke's album Pandemonium - an experience that was amazing musically but personally disillusioning. Tom was asked to join Jaz Coleman and his cohorts on a year long international tour, but turned it down due to his increasing commitments with Shihad and Coleman's now apparent megalomania.

1991

Late

• The band's sound was rapidly changing. Local outfits such as the Skeptics and Bailter Space and Headless Chickens had a personal and musical effect on Shihad.

August

• Long serving bassist Hamish Laing left, Karl Kippenberger joined as replacement. Karl had a baptism of fire - his second live show with Shihad was before 20,000 during the band's first show with total rock legends AC/DC, the next night infront of 40,000!

Sometime

• Shihad released their first recorded work Devolve. Surprisingly hit top 20 on National charts.

1990

• Management was picked up by Gerald Dwyer - former front man of local punk legends Flesh-D-Vice. Sold out national tours and gigs with Faith No More and Motorhead.

1988

• Later that year Phil Knight joins Shihad.
• Shihad was formed by Tom Larkin and Jon Toogood while at Wellington High School.