The Alikivi site is packed with an extensive range of interviews with actors, musicians and writers. The blogs also include my documentaries filmed in the North East.

Check the Alikivi You Tube channel:

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

Part of the Alikivi photography collection has been added to South Tyneside History website https://southtynesidehistory.co.uk/archive/photographs?

MUSIC & RECORDING STUDIOS:

Par Can (Lighting Tech/Stage Crew Newcastle City Hall, The Tubes tours)

Julie Clay (Whitley Bay Ice Rink, Tyne Idols, Sunday for Sammy).

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

Mark Johnson (Newcastle Mayfair & City Hall Stagehand)

Stu Keeble (North East Sound Engineer)

Lisa Murphy (Blast, Newcastle Recording Studio)

Chris Murtagh (Club manager Newcastle Dingwalls, UK promoter & musician)

Steve Newhouse (roadie/ author Iron Maiden Years)

Mark Robinson (WinterStorm Rock Weekender)

Roadrunner Record Label

Jim Sculley (Manager Black Rose (NWOBHM) Promoter Rock Garden/Cavern, BIllingham Swan).

Colin Smoult (Sound & Lighting Engineer) 

Steve Thompson (Songwriter & Neat records producer)

Martin Trollope (Harbour Master Tyneside Studio engineer).

VainGloriousUK (North East Music & Video site).

Sue Wilkinson (Band manager/BBC/Generator/Evolution)

David Wood (Impulse Studio/NEAT record label)

Jon Zazula (Manager -Metallica – & Megaforce record company founder)

RADIO & TV PRODUCTION:

Jeff Brown (BBC Look North)

Chris Cowey (TV music director Top of the Pops, The White Room, The Tube, Check it Out)

Gary James (presenter The Tube).

Stan Laudon (BBC Radio presenter)

Michael Metcalf (The Tube, GMTV, Director)

Keith Newman (Radio Northumberland)

Ian Payne (ITV Tyne Tees).

Chris Phipps (TV music producer The Tube, author Forget Carter & Namedropper)

Colin Rowell (Stage Manager, Newcastle City Hall, Reading Festival, Knebworth, music BBC, ITV, CH4 The Tube)

NORTH EAST ROCK & PROG MUSIC:

Alan Knights – Animals – Attention Seekers – Beckett

Sam Blewitt (Ultravox/Emerson/Moulin Rouge/Dizzee Rascal) – Bullfrog

Brass Alley – Cirkus – Lorraine Crosby – Danceclass – East Side Torpedoes

Field Music – Fogg – Geordie – Greedsville – Micky Kerrigan – Steve Laidlaw

Michael McNally – Micky McCrystal – Pirhana Brothers – Procession – She

Ian Slater – Southbound – Tokyo Rose – John Verity – Warbeck

Whisky Priests – White Heat – XLR8R.

NORTH EAST PUNK/ALTERNATIVE:

Angelic Upstarts – Carpettes – Crashed Out – DisGuise – Drill – Fauves – Fiend

Gunslinger – Gutter Folk – Heed Case – Lowfeye – Nod – Penetration – Punishment of Luxury

Sadistic Slobs – Shotgun Brides – Sweet Trash – Toy Dolls – UK Subs

Wavis O’Shave – Wildhearts.

NORTH EAST METAL/NWOBHM:

Alien – Atomkraft – Avenger – Axis – Battleaxe – Blind Fury – Blitzkreig

Dark Heart – Def Con One – Fist – Hellanbach – Hollow Ground

Millenium – Mythra – Phasslayne – Raven – Reign

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 – War Machine – Warfare – Warrior – White Vice.

NORTH EAST FOLK & BLUES MUSIC:

Tony Bengtsson – Phil Caffrey – Bill Dodds – Brian Hume – Lindisfarne – Foster Neville

Prelude – Eileen Richardson – Trevor Sewell – Emma  Wilson – Toby Twirl.

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

Amateur Ornothologist – Autoleisureland – David Ducasse (Scooch/Eurovision)

Vincent Edwards – Mark Aynsley Hay – Hector Gannet – Kane Gang –

Chris Morris (Paper Lace) – Opus 3 – Swimmer Leon.

HEAVY METAL & NWOBHM:

Anvil – Bernie Torme – Bodo Schopf (Schenker) – Chariot – Cloven Hoof

Dealer – Desolation Angels – Gold – Jaguar – Lyin’ Rampant

Oliver/Dawson Saxon – Overdrive – Di’Anno – Sacrelige – Salem

Savage – Snatch Back – Soldier – Tarot – Thunderstick – Tokyo Blade

Trespass – Troyen – Tytan – Vardis – Weapon.

EXTRA INTERVIEWS:

Richard Blair (George Orwell’s son/The Orwell Society)

Preston Brown (Boxing coach/Fire fighter)

Emma Lewell-Buck (South Shields MP)

David Francis (musician & leader South Tyneside Green party group)

Lynne Graham (Northumberland Hunt Watch)

David Haldane (cartoonist, The Times/Private Eye)

Mark Aynsley Hay (musician, 1970s club & cruises performer)

Anna Malia (North East Animal Rights)

Robert Reed (comedian & magician)

Martin Smith (ex-professional footballer Sunderland AFC)

Karen Taylor (former Womens Royal Navy) 

Alan Warren (Researcher & Historian George Orwell, Spanish Civil War)

FEATURES:

Chas Chandler (The Animals, Hendrix/Slade manager)

Geoff Docherty (Promoter’s Tale & Promoter Bay Hotel Sunderland)

L.S. Lowry (Artist 1887-1976) 

Dave Nicholson (Bobby Thompson, A Private Audience) 

Vince Rae (Jarrow photographer/artist)

Kathy Stobart (Jazz musician 1925-2014)

The Rise & Fall of Bobby Thompson (North East comedian)

ARTISTS:

Aidan Doyle (Artist)  – Andrew McKeown (Sculptor)

Bob Olley (Artist) - David G. Wilkinson (Artist)

Sheila Graber (Animator) – Garner Harris (Creative Seed)

Joe Hill (Graffiti Artist) – Rob MacDonald (Stonemason)

Unified Media (Film Makers).

PHOTOGRAPHY:

Will Binks (Live music photography)

James Cleet (1876-1959)

Archive Collection (Changing Face of South Tyneside 2010-20)

Downey Brothers (18-1900s)

Amy Flagg (Historian 1893-1965)

Framing History (Photos Capture a Decade of Changes)

Last Gangs in Town – (Photography of South Tyneside bands 1990’s)

Sally Newhouse (photographer 2000s rock music)

Roksnaps – (Fan’s concert photographs) #1 to #7

Frank Meadow Sutcliffe (1853-1941)

Rik Walton (photographer Newcastle City Hall 1970-80s)

WRITERS:

Keith Armstrong (Poet)

Vin Arthey (The Kremlins Geordie Spy)

Paula Bartley (Ellen Wilkinson M.P)

Ray Dobson & Trevor Thorne (Music in Sunderland)

Jools & Paul Donnolly (Newcastle Club a’Gogo, Handyside Arcade)

Ian Fawdon (Too Far North – NE music scene)

Paul Ferris (The Boy on the Shed & ex-professional footballer Newcastle United)

John Gibson (Sports journalist/Gibbo Files, Newcastle United Story)

Darren Johnson (Slade in the Seventies)

Tom Kelly (Poet & Playwright)

Rob Kilburn (Tyne & Weird)

Rob Meddes (The Crack culture magazine)

Peter Mitchell ( Jack High, When the Boat Comes In, & ITV Producer).

Arthur McKenzie (The Bill, Spender, Casualty)

Terry Patterson (ex boxer)

Ian Penman (writes as Ian Ravendale – Music journalist Sounds & broadcaster)

Katrina Porteous (Poet/Broadcaster)  

Red Squirrel Press (Poetry Publishers)

Greg Renoff (Van Halen Rising)

Trevor Ristow (History of The Sisters of Mercy)

Phil Sutcliffe (Sounds, AC/DC, Queen)

Ed Waugh (Wor Bella, Dirty Dusting, Sunday for Sammy)

Terry Wilkinson (Handler, award winning author & journalist)

Chris Scott Wilson (Backstage Pass & Boys in the Bands)

Trevor Wood (Dead End Street).

THEATRE, COMEDY & ACTORS:

Ann Ahmed (Our Laygate)

Leah Bell (Writer, Actress & Theatre Producer)

Jamie Brown (Machine Gunners, When the Boat Comes In)

Micky Cochrane (Carrying David)

Ray Cooney O.B.E (Writer/Director/Theatre Producer)

Iain Cunningham (Boyle Yer Stotts)

Simon Donald (UK comedian/VIZ magazine)

Lesley Saint John (Auf Weidersehen Pet, Byker Grove)

Ned Kelly & Jack Berry (former workingmen’s club entertainers).

Wayne Miller (Big Time, Wearside Jack (ITV) Boyle Yer Stotts)

Pete Peverly (R.S.C, Sunday for Sammy, Bobby Thompson)

Brian Rapkin (Machine Gunners, Spender, Byker Grove)

Helen Russell (Beverly Agency, The Customs House, Spender).

Ray Spencer M.B.E (Director, The Customs House)

Alison Stanley (Sex is Hard Work, Life of Riley theatre)

Alexandra Tahnee (The Cramlington Train Wreckers)

Gavin Webster (UK comedian)

Steve Wraith (Rise of the Footsoldier, In Our Name, Vera). 

TYNESIDE HISTORY:

Adam Bell (South Shields Museum & Art Gallery)

Janis Blower (Shields Gazette & Al’ T’gither Like the Folks O’ Shields)

Blyth Battery (World War One guns & look out)

Jack Brymer (South Shields musician, 1915-2003)

John Caffrey (Boer War, St Bede’s Junction Rail Disaster)

Alexandra Croom (Arbeia Roman Fort, South Shields)

James Dunlop (South Shields Councillor, Mayor 1865-1938)

Richard Ewart M.P. (Miner, Councillor, Trade Union Organiser, Sunderland MP 1905 -1953)

Dorothy Fleet (South Shields History Group)

Vernon Gray (South Shields Barber)

Dan Green (Tyneside Unexplained Investigator)

Luan Hanratty (Tyneside Local History)

Dave Harker (The Northern Minstrels)

Hive Radio (St Bede’s Junction Rail Disaster 1915).

David Kidd (The People’s Roman Remains Park)

John Orton (5 Stone Steps: A Policeman’s Life in 1920’s South Shields)

Peter Sagar (Human Rights in the North East)

Jean Stokes (South Shields History Group).

RESEARCH:

Changing Face of South Shields 1 – 4 (Photographs)

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  (Baron Avro Manhattan)

Russia’s Roswell, Alien Mystery at Kapistan Yar.

FILMING & DOCUMENTARIES:

Design for Life (Tattoo’s)

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)

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.

FEATURES & WRITING:

Have You Heard This One? #1 #2 #3 #4  (‘Best of ‘ stories)

It’s Only Rock n Roll

Let the Music Do the Talking

London Calling: Nights at the Marquee (North East bands playing the London club)

1980 The Year Metal Forged on Tyneside.

Lover, Fighter, Hellraiser – The Rise & Fall of Phil Lynott

Heavy Metal Holocaust 1981

Pyromaniax – (Bands using pyro & bombs on stage- what could go wrong)

Rockin’ All Over the Toon (The Chronicle)

Short Cuts – Hendrix & Lemmy in Shields – Phil Lynott v Chas Chandler

The Jam & The Specials

The Great North East Metal Raid (Raven, Satan, Mythra & Tygers of Pan Tang)

Tune In/Turn On (Music TV in 70s & 80s)

Tyne Dock on the Telly (Film & TV locations).

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