Gary Alikivi has nearly 30 years experience as a Film Maker based in Tyneside, UK. Currently working on a book project featuring interviews with North East musicians.
This blog features over 350 interviews (listed below) with North East musicians, artists and writers. Also includes stories on making over 20 self financed Tyneside documentaries. Including Wildflower about South Shields born Eileen O’Shaughnessy, wife of George Orwell. The film was screened on the Isle of Jura in Scotland where Orwell wrote 1984.
Also featured on the blog is a short film Who Were the Marchers ? about Ellen Wilkinson MP and the Jarrow Crusade plus We Sold Our Soul for Rock n Roll, a Tyneside rockumentary.
Most recent works include the life of author & artist Baron Avro Manhattan, and Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin. Why not check the Alikivi You Tube channel at…
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkW7F_6t-GNVMCYLT4BNHfg
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INTERVIEWS:
ARTISTS: AIDAN DOYLE (Artist)
ANDREW McKEOWN (Sculptor)
BOB OLLEY (Artist) – DAVID G.WILKINSON (Artist)
RIK WALTON (Photographer)
SALLY NEWHOUSE (Photographer)
SHEILA GRABER (Animator)
VINCE RAE (Artist/Photographer).
RESEARCHER, WRITER & AUTHOR:
ALAN WARREN (Researcher & Historian)
ANN AHMED (Writer) – DAN GREEN (Investigator)
DAVE HARKER (Author)
DOROTHY FLEET (Local History Group)
ED WAUGH (Playwright)
GEOFF DOCHERTY (Music Author & Promoter)
IAN PENMAN (Ravendale – Music journalist, Broadcaster)
JANIS BLOWER (Journalist) – JOHN ORTON (Author)
KATRINA PORTEOUS (Poet/Broadcaster)
KEITH ARMSTRONG (Poet) – PAULA BARTLEY (Author)
RED SQUIRREL PRESS (Poetry Publishers)
STEVE NEWHOUSE (Author/ex-roadie)
TOM KELLY (Playwright) – TREVOR RISTOW (Author)
TREVOR WOOD (Crime Writer) – VIN ARTHEY (Author).
TV & STAGE PERFORMERS:
HELEN RUSSELL (Entertainer)
IAIN CUNNINGHAM & WAYNE MILLER (Actors)
JAMIE BROWN (Actor)
LESLEY SAINT – JOHN (Actress)
MICKY COCHRANE (Actor)
NED KELLY & JACK BERRY (former club entertainers)
PETE PEVERLY (Actor/Musician)
SIMON DONALD (Comedian/VIZ magazine)
STEVE WRAITH (Actor)
BACKSTAGE/TECHNICAL:
MARK JOHNSON (Stagehand)
NIGEL PEARCE (Author/Radio presenter)
PAR CAN (Tech/Stage Crew)
PAUL KIRSOPP (NOVA radio DJ)
STAN LAUNDON (ex-BBC Radio presenter)
TV & SOUND PRODUCTION:
BLAST (recording studio)
CHRIS COWEY (TV music director)
CHRIS MURTAGH (Club manager/promoter & musician)
CHRIS PHIPPS (TV music producer)
COLIN ROWELL (Stage Production Manager)
COLIN SMOULT (Sound & Lighting Engineer)
DAVID CLASPER (Electrician, Newcastle City Hall)
DAVID WOOD (Impulse Studio/NEAT record label)
GARNER HARRIS (Creative Seed)
GARY JAMES (presenter The Tube)
GUARDIAN RECORDING STUDIO #1 Tygers of Pan Tang,
#2 Spartan Warrior #3 Steve Thompson
#4 Mythra, Saracen, Hollow Ground
#5 Peter Lee Hamilton
JIM SCULLEY (Manager & Promoter).
LISA MURPHY (Recording Studio Producer)
MARTIN FRANCIS TROLLOPE (Studio engineer)
MICHAEL METCALF (The Tube, GMTV, Director)
PETER MITCHELL (Writer & TV Producer)
ROBERT MILLS (Concert Promoter)
STU KEEBLE (Sound Engineer)
UNIFIED MEDIA (Film Makers)
FEATURES:
AMY FLAGG (Historian & Photographer 1893-1965)
BUTCH CASSIDY (Wild West outlaw).
CHAS CHANDLER (The Animals/Hendrix/Slade)
DOWNEY BROTHERS (Photographers)
EMMA LEWELL-BUCK (South Shields MP)
FRANK MEADOW SUTCLIFFE (Photographer 1853-1941)
HANS ZIMMER (Film/TV music composer)
JACK BRYMER (Musician, Clarinet 1915-2003)
JAMES CLEET (Photographer 1876-1959)
KATHY STOBART (Jazz musician 1925-2014)
L.S. LOWRY (Artist 1887-1976)
RAW MEAT IN THE SONIC MINCER (Music Weeklies/Sounds)
RAY SPENCER M.B.E (Director, The Customs House)
RICHARD BLAIR (Orwell Society)
RICHARD EWART M.P. (Trade Union Organiser 1905 -1953)
TREVOR HORN (Record Producer).
TYNESIDE WAR HEROES –
#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 (WW1 & WW2 Victoria Cross).
NORTH EAST SOUL/JAZZ/DANCE/POP:
DAVID DUCASSE (Scooch) – IAN MUNRO (Opus 3)
J. VINCENT EDWARDS – MARK ROBERTSON
NORTH EAST FOLK & BLUES:
BEN HUDSON – CELIA BRYCE – CHRIS ORMSTON
EMMA WILSON – HAYLEY ELLEN
JEN STEVENS – JOHN WRIGHTSON
JOE PETERSON & MICHAEL DAVIS
LINDISFARNE – PHIL CAFFREY
TOBY TWIRL – TONY WILSON – TREVOR SEWELL
NORTH EAST ROCK & PROG:
ALAN BURKE (Southbound) – ALAN KNIGHTS – ANIMALS
ATTENTION SEEKERS – BARRY LAMB (Miniatures 2020)
BECKETT – BRASS ALLEY
CIRKUS – DANCECLASS – EAST SIDE TORPEDOES
FIELD MUSIC – GEORDIE
HECTOR GANNET – IAN SLATER
JOHN VERITY (Argent) – LORRAINE CROSBY
MICHAEL McNALLY – MICKY CRYSTAL
MICKY KERRIGAN – PETER LEE HAMILTON
THE QUESTIONNAIRES
SAM BLEWITT (Ultravox/Emerson/Moulin Rouge/Dizzee Rascal)
SOUTHBOUND – STEVE LAIDLAW
STEVE THOMPSON (Songwriter & Neat records producer)
TOKYO ROSE – TONY HODGE (The Pirahna Brothers)
THE WHISKY PRIESTS – WARBECK – WHITE HEAT.
NORTH EAST PUNK/ALTERNATIVE:
ANGELIC UPSTARTS – BASTARD SONS OF CAVAN
THE CARPETTES (Neil Thompson) – CRASHED OUT
DECONTROL – DRILL – THE FAUVES
THE FIEND – GUNSLINGER – HI-FI SPITFIRES
JAZZ RIOT – LOWFEYE – MAIN GRAINS
MOND COWIE (former Angelic Upstarts)
NICK REEVES – NOD – PENANCE STARE – PENETRATION
PHANTOMS of the UNDERGROUND – PSYKOBILLY
PUNISHMENT OF LUXURY – THE RELITICS
SILENT SCREAM – THE TOY DOLLS – UK SUBS
WARWOUND – WAVIS O’SHAVE – THE WILDHEARTS.
NORTH EAST METAL/NWOBHM:
1980 THE YEAR METAL FORGED ON TYNESIDE
ALIEN – ATOMKRAFT – AVENGER UK
AXIS – BLIND FURY – BLITZKRIEG
DARK HEART – DEF CON ONE – FIST – GLENN COATES
HELLANBACH – HOLLOW GROUND – LUCIFERS CHALICE
MARAUDER – MILLENNIUM – MYTHRA
NEAT BITES (Tyneside record label)
PHASSLAYNE – RAVEN – REPULSIVE VISION
ROKSNAX METAL ON THE MENU (Roksnax album)
SARACEN – SATAN – SLUTT – SPARTAN WARRIOR.
TYGERS OF PAN TANG –
Craig Ellis – Dean Robertson – Gav Grey – Jack Meille – Jon Deverill
Micky McCrystal – Fred Purser – Robb Weir
Richard Laws – Steve Lamb – Chris Percy
Glenn Howes – Steve Thompson – Francesco Marris.
TYSONDOG – VENOM INC – WAR MACHINE
WARFARE – WARRIOR – WHITE VICE.
METAL/NWOBHM:
ANVIL – BERNIE TORME
BODO SCHOPF (Schenker) – CHARIOT – CLOVEN HOOF
DEALER – DESOLATION ANGELS – FIREBIRD
GOLD – JAGUAR – OLIVER/DAWSON SAXON
OVERDRIVE – PAUL DI’ANNO – SACRELIGE
SALEM – SAVAGE – SNATCH BACK – SOLDIER – TAROT
THUNDERSTICK – TOKYO BLADE
TROYEN – TYTAN – VARDIS – WEAPON UK.
REVIEWS: ANVIL (Metal City) – LOWFEYE
TYGERS OF PAN TANG (Ritual)
RESEARCH:
CHANGING FACE OF SOUTH SHIELDS 1 – 4 (Photographs)
DARK ARTS OF THE STASI 1 – 6 – (East German Secret Police)
LETTERS FROM JARROW 1 – 3 –
(Tyneside IRA, Jarrow March, Ellen Wilkinson MP)
POSTCARDS FROM SPAIN 1 – 13 (Spanish Civil War)
DOCUMENTARIES:
DESIGNS FOR LIFE (Tattoo’s)
THE HILLS OF HOLBORN (South Shields)
HOME FROM HOME (Workingmen’s Clubs)
JARROW VOICES –
(William Jobling, Jarrow March, Ellen Wilkinson MP)
LITTLE IRELAND (Irish immigration into Jarrow)
ON THE FRONT LINE (Miners strike 1984)
SECRETS & LIES (Baron Avro Manhattan)
SKUETENDERS (Lawe Top, South Shields)
TYNE DOCK BORDERS (South Shields)
THE KING, THE QUEEN & THE PUNK –
(Muhammad Ali, Angelic Upstarts 1977)
TYNE STORIES (Pilots, Foyboatmen, Tugboatmen)
WAR STORIES (South Tyneside 2nd W.W.)
WESTOE ROSE (Amy Flagg, photographer)
WE SOLD OUR SOUL FOR ROCK N ROLL –
(Rock Music in 70/80s South Tyneside)
WHO WERE THE MARCHERS ? (Jarrow Crusade 1936)
WILDFLOWER (Eileen O’Shaughnessy, George Orwell’s wife)
ZAMYATIN (The Russia – Tyneside Connection)
VINYL JUNKIES: 7 songs that shaped their world
NEIL ARMSTRONG – WILL BINKS – JOHN HESTON
MARTIN POPOFF – COLIN SMOULT – NEIL NEWTON
TONY HIGGINS – VINCE HIGH – JON DALTON
GARY PAYNE.
BIG MOUTH STRIKES:
HAVE YOU HEARD THIS ONE ? –
#1 #2 #3 #4 (‘Best of ‘ stories from interviews)
IT’S ONLY ROCK N ROLL
LAST GANGS IN TOWN –
(Photography of South Tyneside bands late 1990’s)
LET THE MUSIC DO THE TALKING
LONDON CALLING: NIGHTS AT THE MARQUEE –
(North East bands playing the London club)
LOST IN THE SUPERMARKET.
MOTORHEAD (8th of May)
NEVER MIND THE SEVENTIES (North East punk book)
HIT THE LIGHTS (First time I heard Metallica)
PYROMANIAX –
(Bands using pyro & bombs on stage- what could go wrong!)
ROCKIN’ ALL OVER THE TOON
& ROCKIN’ ALL OVER THE TOON AGAIN ( The Chronicle)
ROKSNAPS –
(Fan’s concert photographs) #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7
SOUNDS ALIVE & POWER OF MUSIC
TATTS
THIS FLIGHT (Airlines damaged instruments)
TUNE IN/TURN ON (Music TV in 70s & 80s)
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