Gary Wilkinson (Alikivi) has 30 years experience as a Film Maker based in Tyneside, UK and is currently working on a book project featuring interviews with North East musicians.

His photography collection was recently added to South Tyneside History website https://southtynesidehistory.co.uk/archive/photographs?   

Along with interviews with musicians, artists, actors and writers this blog includes stories on making over 20 self-financed Tyneside social 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.

Little Ireland a film looking at the Irish immigration into Jarrow is featured along with a short documentary about South Shields photographer & historian Amy Flagg, plus a Tyneside rockumentary We Sold Our Soul for Rock n Roll. Also Secrets & Lies about the life of Italian born artist & author Baron Avro Manhattan who had homes in London and Spain and lived out his last years in South Shields.

Why not check the Alikivi You Tube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkW7F_6t-GNVMCYLT4BNHfg

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INTERVIEWS: ED WAUGH & ALAN SHEARER (Wor Bella stage play)

EMMA LEWELL-BUCK (South Shields MP)

GREG RENOFF (Author of Van Halen Rising)

JON ZAZULA (Music Manager -Metallica – & Megaforce record company founder)

MARTIN SMITH (ex professional footballer Sunderland AFC)

PRESTON BROWN (Boxing coach/Fire fighter)

RAY COONEY O.B.E (Writer/Director/Theatre Producer)

RAY SPENCER M.B.E (Director, The Customs House)

RICHARD BLAIR (George Orwell’s son/The Orwell Society)

ARTISTS:

AIDAN DOYLE (Artist) 

ANDREW McKEOWN (Sculptor)

BOB OLLEY (Artist)

DAVID G. WILKINSON (Artist)

JOE HILL (Graffiti Artist)

SHEILA GRABER (Animator)

PHOTOGRAPHY:

AMY FLAGG (Historian 1893-1965)

ARCHIVE COLLECTION: Changing Face of South Tyneside 2010-20

DOWNEY BROTHERS (18-1900s)

FRANK MEADOW SUTCLIFFE (1853-1941)

JAMES CLEET (1876-1959)

LAST GANGS IN TOWN –

(Photography of South Tyneside bands late 1990’s)

RIK WALTON (Newcastle City Hall 1970-80s)

SALLY NEWHOUSE (2000s rock music)

VINCE RAE (Jarrow artist).

RESEARCHER & AUTHOR:

ALAN WARREN (Researcher & Historian George Orwell, Spanish Civil War)

ANN AHMED (Playwrite – Our Laygate)

CHRIS SCOTT WILSON (author Backstage Pass & Boys in the Bands)

DAN GREEN (Tyneside Unexplained Investigator)

ED WAUGH (Playwright – Wor Bella, Dirty Dusting, Sunday for Sammy)

GREG RENOFF (Van Halen Rising, record Producer Ted Templeman)

IAN PENMAN (Ravendale – Music journalist – Sounds & broadcaster)

JOHN GIBSON (Sports journalist & author – Gibbo Files, Newcastle United Story)

PHIL SUTCLIFFE (Music writer & author AC/DC High Voltage Rock n Roll, Queen – Ultimate Illustrated History)

RAY DOBSON & TREVOR THORNE (Music in Sunderland)

TREVOR RISTOW (Waiting for Another War: History of The Sisters of Mercy)

TREVOR WOOD (crime writer, Dead End Street)

VIN ARTHEY (The Kremlins Geordie Spy)

POETRY:

KATRINA PORTEOUS (Poet/Broadcaster)

KEITH ARMSTRONG (Poet) 

RED SQUIRREL PRESS (Poetry Publishers)

TOM KELLY (Poet & Playwright)

ACTORS:

ALISON STANLEY (Sex is Hard Work, Life of Riley theatre)

IAIN CUNNINGHAM (Boyle Yer Stotts)

JAMIE BROWN (Machine Gunners, When the Boat Comes In)

LEAH BELL (Writer, Actress & Theatre Producer)

LESLEY SAINT – JOHN (Auf Wedersehen Pet, Byker Grove)

MICKY COCHRANE (Carrying David)

PETE PEVERLY (R.S.C, Sunday for Sammy, Once the musical)

STEVE WRAITH (Rise of the Footsoldier, In Our Name, Vera) 

WAYNE MILLER (Big Time, Wearside Jack (ITV) Boyle Yer Stotts)

STAGE PERFORMERS: 

BRIAN RAPKIN (Machine Gunners (BBC) Stranger Than Fiction (ITV) Spender, Byker Grove)

GAVIN WEBSTER (UK comedian)

HELEN RUSSELL (E.N.S.A, Beverly Agency, The Customs House, Spender)

NED KELLY & JACK BERRY (former workingmen’s club entertainers)

SIMON DONALD (UK comedian/VIZ magazine)

BACKSTAGE/TECHNICAL:

MARK JOHNSON (Newcastle Mayfair & City Hall Stagehand)

NIGEL PEARCE (Groove Britain radio presenter)

PAR CAN (Lighting Tech/Stage Crew Newcastle City Hall, The Tubes tours)

PAUL KIRSOPP (NOVA radio DJ)

STAN LAUNDON (ex-BBC Radio presenter)

STEVE NEWHOUSE (ex-roadie/crew supervisor, author Iron Maiden Years)

MEDIA PRODUCTION:

CHRIS MURTAGH (Club manager Newcastle Dingwalls, UK promoter & musician)

COLIN ROWELL (Stage Production Manager, Newcastle City Hall, Reading Festival, Knebworth, music programmes BBC, ITV, CH4 The Tube)

GARNER HARRIS (Creative Seed)

JIM SCULLEY (Manager Black Rose (NWOBHM) Promoter Rock Garden/Cavern, Bellingham Swan).

JULIE CLAY (Whitley Bay Ice Rink, Tyne Idols, Sunday for Sammy).

ROBERT MILLS (Rock Music Concert Promoter)

FILM & TV:

CHRIS COWEY (TV music director Top of the Pops, The White Room, The Tube, Check it Out, Brit Awards)

CHRIS PHIPPS (TV music producer The Tube, Pebble Mill at One, author Forget Carter & Namedropper)

GARY JAMES (presenter The Tube)

MICHAEL METCALF (The Tube,  GMTV, Director)

PETER MITCHELL (author Jack High, stageplay When the Boat Comes In, & ITV Producer)

UNIFIED MEDIA (Tyneside Film Makers)

SOUND & RECORDING STUDIO:

BLAST (Newcastle recording studio)

COLIN SMOULT (Sound & Lighting Engineer) 

DAVID WOOD (Wallsend Impulse Studio/NEAT record label)

GUARDIAN RECORDING STUDIO (Pity Me, Durham County) #1 Tygers of Pan Tang,  

#2 Spartan Warrior  #3 Steve Thompson 

#4 Mythra, Saracen, Hollow Ground 

#5 Peter Lee Hammond 

#6 Ghost Stories (Glenn Coates, Hollow Ground & Dave Wilkinson, Spartan Warrior)

#7 Battleaxe

LISA MURPHY (Newcastle Recording Studio Producer)

MARTIN FRANCIS TROLLOPE (Tyneside Studio engineer)

STU KEEBLE (North East Sound Engineer)

FEATURES:

BEDROCK NORTH EAST RADIO

FRAMING HISTORY (Photos Capture a Decade of Changes)

HANS ZIMMER (Film/TV music composer)

L.S. LOWRY (Artist 1887-1976)

LESLEY DUNCAN (Singer/songwriter 1943-2010)

LONDON CALLING: NIGHTS AT THE MARQUEE –

(North East bands playing the London club)

RAW MEAT IN THE SONIC MINCER (Music Weeklies/Sounds)

SOUNDS (music newspaper)

TREVOR HORN (Record Producer).

TYNESIDE HISTORY:

ADAM BELL (South Shields Museum & Art Gallery)

ALEXANDRA CROOM (Arbeia Roman Fort, South Shields)

BUTCH CASSIDY (Wild West outlaw).

CHAS CHANDLER  (The Animals, Manager Hendrix/Slade/21 Strangers)

DAVE HARKER (author The Northern Minstrels) 

DAVID KIDD (author The People’s Roman Remains Park)

DOROTHY FLEET (South Shields History Group)

EVA ELWES (Actress & Playwright 1876-1950)

GAN CANNY (Sunderland sculpture by Ray Lonsdale)

GEOFF DOCHERTY (Music author A Promoter’s Tale & Three Minutes of Magic & Promoter The Bay Hotel Sunderland)

HIVE RADIO STORYTELLERS (St Bede’s Junction Rail Disaster 1915)

JACK BRYMER (South Shields born musician, clarinet 1915-2003)

JAMES DUNLOP (South Shields Councillor, Alderman, Mayor 1865-1938)

JANIS BLOWER (The Shields Gazette journalist & author Al’ T’gither Like the Folks O’ Shields)

JEAN STOKES (South Shields History Group)

JOHN CAFFERY (Ladysmith Street, South Shields Connection to the Boer War, St Bede’s Junction Rail Disaster)

JOHN IRVIN (Film Director 1940 – )

JOHN ORTON (author 5 Stone Steps: A Policeman’s Life in 1920’s South Shields)

KATHY STOBART (Jazz musician 1925-2014)

NORMAN DUNN (Photograph/Postcard collector)

PAULA BARTLEY (author Ellen Wilkinson M.P)

RICHARD EWART M.P. (South Shields Councillor, Trade Union Organiser, Sunderland MP 1905 -1953)

ROB KILBURN (author Tyne & Weird)

TOMMY BROWN (Royal Navy 1942)

VICTORIA CROSS HEROES – #6 to #10

WAR HEROES – #1 to #5 (WW1 & WW2 Victoria Cross).

MUSIC:

NORTH EAST SOUL/JAZZ/DANCE/POP/INDIE:

AMATEUR ORNOTHOLIGIST 

DAVID FRANCIS (musician & leader South Tyneside Green party group)

DEMON SUMMER – DAVE BREWIS (The Kane Gang)

DAVID DUCASSE (Scooch) – IAN MUNRO (Opus 3)

MARK ROBERTSON – PROCESSION – VINCENT EDWARDS 

NORTH EAST FOLK & BLUES:

BEN HUDSON – CELIA BRYCE – CHRIS ORMSTON

ED JAMES – 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)

LEE ROBERTSON (She) – LORRAINE CROSBY – MICHAEL McNALLY

MICKY CRYSTAL (Tygers of Pan Tang/New Breed Revolution)

MICKY KERRIGAN – PETER LEE HAMILTON 

PROCESSION – THE QUESTIONNAIRES 

SAM BLEWITT (Ultravox/Emerson/Moulin Rouge/Dizzee Rascal)

SHE – 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:

NEVER MIND THE SEVENTIES (North East punk book)

ANGELIC UPSTARTS – BASTARD SONS OF CAVAN

THE CARPETTES (Neil Thompson) – CRASHED OUT

DECONTROL – DREW GALLON (Sweet Trash/Shotgun Brides/For Gods Sake)

DRILL – THE FAUVES – THE FIEND – GUNSLINGER

HI-FI SPITFIRES – JAZZ RIOT – LOWFEYE – MAIN GRAINS

MOND COWIE (former Angelic Upstarts) – NOD 

PENETRATION – PHANTOMS of the UNDERGROUND – PSYKOBILLY

PUNISHMENT OF LUXURY –  THE RELITICS

THE SADISTIC SLOBS – 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 – BATTLEAXE – BLIND FURY – BLITZKRIEG

DARK HEART  – DEF CON ONE – FIST – GLENN COATES

HELLANBACH – HOLLOW GROUND 

MARAUDER  – MILLENNIUM – MYTHRA  

NEAT BITES (Tyneside record label)

PHASSLAYNE – RAVEN 

ROKSNAX METAL ON THE MENU (Roksnax album)

SARACEN – SATAN – SLUTT  – SPARTAN WARRIOR.  

TYGERS OF PAN TANG  – 

Craig Ellis – Dean Robertson – Gav Grey – Huw Holding – Jack Meille – Jon Deverill 

Micky McCrystal – Fred Purser – Robb Weir – Brian Dick 

Richard Laws – Steve Lamb – Chris Percy – Tony Liddle

Glenn Howes – Steve Thompson – Francesco Marris.

TYSONDOG – VENOM INC – WAR MACHINE

WARFARE – WARRIOR – WHITE VICE.

WORLDWIDE METAL/NWOBHM:

ANVIL – BERNIE TORME  

BODO SCHOPF (Schenker) – CHARIOT – CLOVEN HOOF

DEALER – DESOLATION ANGELS 

GOLD  – JAGUAR  – LYIN’ RAMPANT 

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)

FAMILY TIES (family ancestry) #1 Galway Claddagh & Jarrow Don

#2 Full Moon & an Irish Wake #3 Jarrow Slacks & the Galway Hooker

LETTERS FROM JARROW 1 – 3 –

(Tyneside IRA, Jarrow March, Ellen Wilkinson MP)

LOOKING FOR LUCIFER #1  –  #6  (Second film on Baron Avro Manhattan) 

POSTCARDS FROM SPAIN 1 – 13 (Spanish Civil War)

RUSSIA’S ROSWELL – Alien Mystery at Kapistan Yar

WITNESS – (10 Events of World War Two)

FILMING & 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) 

SUMMER MUSIC ON THE TYNE (camerawork at Tyneside festivals) 

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

MOTORHEAD (8th of May)

GOOD TO KNOW THERE’S STILL A LITTLE BIT OF MAGIC IN THE AIR

(How music has affected me)

HIT THE LIGHTS (First time I heard Metallica)

LET THE MUSIC DO THE TALKING

LOST IN THE SUPERMARKET – Has music lost its value ?

MUSIC SURPRISES – UDO, PAT & ALF

PORT VALE HEAVY METAL HOLOCAUST 1981

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

THIS FLIGHT (Airlines damaged instruments)

TUNE IN/TURN ON (Music TV in 70s & 80s)

 

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