This episode of C4's music series Homegrown Profiles looks at the long career of NZ heavy rock's favourite sons Shihad. Singer Jon Toogood talks frankly about the band's highs and lows, from forming at Wellington High School to the release of Love is the New Hate in 2005 (when this doco was made). In a sometimes brutally honest self-appraisal, Toogood talks about the band's success in Australia being tempered with too much drug-taking and too much ego, their ill-fated name change, and the great American dream that didn't quite work out as planned.
The Homegrown Profiles series on C4 was my first stint at directing. There was no budget, and the crew consisted pretty much of myself and Mike ...
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Ken Burns
Posted at 09.42PM - 07.01.2010
This is a great story of making it in the music industry. Jon Toogood is very straight up about his life and life in a band. I think they've been together for 20 years and are still holding their own