Shakir Pichler

Shakir Pichler (born August, 1967 in Perth, Western Australia) is an Australian Drummer, Singer, and feature film Action Vehicle Coordinator.

Shakir joined his first performing rock band, the WAMI award winning The Kryptonics in Perth, Western Australia in 1984 at the age of 17. They quickly attracted a record deal with Cherry Top and released their first single, Plastic Imitation / Baby (1985) and due to popular demand, soon after pressed a second batch which included the bonus track "As Long As You're Mine".

Just after filming their first music video for "Baby," Shakir was poached by local hard rock band The Bamboos, with whom he recorded and released the single "Snuff", the flexi-disk "Dead Girl", the EP "Born Killer" and the album Rarer Than Rockinghorse Shit.

In 1991 he played drums with Nick Sheppard from The Clash in "The New Egyptian Kings".

After two national tours he finally left to form his own rockabilly band The Howlin MoonDoggies who have recorded three albums Doggie Style, Chasin Pussy & The Last Leg and have also been included on several international rockabilly compilations.

Having recorded two more music videos with The Howlin MoonDoggies in addition to managing the band, he decided to start his own record label in order to help other artists, SexBeat Records, which released a 28-band all Australian punk rock and ska compilation entitled Skunk & Disorderly (2000). Moving from Perth to Sydney, New South Wales to be with his partner at the time Rebekah Elmaloglou he then formed a hard rock band called "Fink".

During the next few years he also worked in the film industry on many features such as Mission: Impossible 2 and On Our Selection and appeared in the feature film Fat Pizza (the movie) as well as various international commercials including work for Kahlúa and Claretine (USA).

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