It Bites - Calling All The Heroes (Live) Tokyo 1989 

Immensely talented band. In my opinion, Francis Dunnery is one of the greatest guitarists ever, and I've been playing guitar all of my life; I don't care if almost nobody mentions this genius among the ranks of the "usual" charts about all-time top players, to me he's nothing less than one of the very best guitarists out there.

Damn this is so much better than the radio version. These guys certainly kicked ass live.

This is such an under appreciated band, they deserve so much more recognition

My GOD! I loved this song back then... but like others here... being in Australia I had NO IDEA how good these guys were live.. this is off the chart!!!! Bugger me!!!!!!

Saw Francis Dunnery perform solo in the early ‘90’s at The Duchess in Leeds. Very entertaining performance and funny guy as well as talented musician.

This is beyond belief.. Incredible... Always loved this song, but did not know how incredible good the band is live

Saw this lot in a night club in Manchester about a year before this.They blew me away. Thought it might have been cos I'd sank a few, this proves what I've been telling people for years. Magnificent live band

Seen them at the Town and Country Club London in '89 I went home the next day as I had gig with my band and on the road to Whitehaven A595 Frank Dunnery was in the car in front of us, he waved at my drummer Charlie, I shouted out the window. "Great gig last night!", he must have either thought i was stalking him or off my nut..... Brilliant, brilliant gig though.

"It's been a great pleasure listening to your musical excellence" 34 years and counting. Well done fellas really great track still rockin' it 🥰

What a performance,Loved this song back in 1986👍

Played with IT BITES guys at Half Moon London, they were great, the band left their lyrics in pub, Pete Reilly found out where the girls lived and returned. Love this track. 🎸

Had the pleasure of seen them live twice.

Amazing dunnery! Great band!!!

Always loved this song and DEFINITELY love the live - and extended - versions, too! Great band back in the day!!

Saw them barrowlands glasgow absolutely one of the best live bands ever seen

I am stunned. I just heard this track on the radio. Then I noticed this vid and decided to watch. I fully expected them to be dreadful live - just like many an over-produced band from the Stink, Aching and Waterworks era. They could really cut it live. Not just play instruments (ever tried that, Robbie Williams or Rihanna??), but the vocals were spot on, and that was long before auto-tune. Thanks for uploading. It's good to be pleasantly surprised.

I've watched a couple of these clips from Tokyo, and Dunnery's voice is right on in all of them!

Jeez, as far as 1 hit wonders go, this is up there with the best of them, i love this chorus, & this song.

Wow! Loved that. 👏

Wow, they're super brilliant!

Fantastic live band

IT BITES is a great band ! i love it

Crank up that bass.......even more 😎

Fantastic band!!

Best live band I've ever seen in person loved em much missed

Why in gods name did they not make it big? Their so talented live

This is a REAL band excellent 👍👍

Class act with superb material and exceptional musicianship throughout the band. Knew from the first few bars of this song when I saw/heard them way back on top of the pops......eeeeyukkkkk!!!.....that they were special and too good to be on that pantomime. Frankie's solo albums are special too so check them out.

Great prog band. As muscians untouchable

What a tune

You guys bring back so many wonderful memories of summer 86' when the tall ships came to Newcastle 1st time. I had a flat over looking the Tyne bridge . And every time it came on the radio I looked out of the window at those ships. Wow guys what an impact on my life.

Now that's how you do a finale!

That sounds fantastic ~ I hope I helped a little when they started with my agency Andy Park Promotions back in the good old days

These guys can play!!

Just GREAT...........GREAT song too !

3.42 in wow Francis looove your riffs xxx

Top band ... They were fantastic live in the Marquee The T&C Kentish Town back in the 80's ..... burnt brightly like a comet then crashed .... but reformed without Frank ..... They were just so f**king good and enthusiastic with it... musos with incredible playing

Powerfully amazing song/**love it** performance fab🤟🙌👌🎼

I have always loved this band. From the first album onwards. Such a shame they didn’t get more successful. They were too musically good, so just fell into the cult category. I still listen to their albums now. Classic, cool band.

Blimey how good!

1 st time iv seen this , and makes me think what a fuckin brilliant band they were

4:53 What a crazy Beck's solo

I discovered It Bites back in 1989 after seeing a documentary on the A&E channel about the process of recording in a studio. The band was It Bites and I later found their albums in the cut-out bin of a local store. I grabbed them all and fell in love the bands big hooks, great melodies and strong musicianship. Great to see them on youtube.

Fantastic band! Back when music was good!

thanks for this video very good band very talented.hope they get wider exposure! map47

Oh wow..... really good LIVE !!! everything "fits" instruments, vocals to bad we didn't realy hear from them again !

Also, this footage undermines the common wisdom that Kurt Cobain only arrived on the scene in the 90s lol...kidding, even when Francis' mop is in his face the doppleganger effect is killed when you notice how high his guitar is strapped on....oh and the fact that he can play the HELL out of the guitar! :)

Just got into this band, reaaaaalllly good!!

Saw them in Newport back in the day. Immensely talented and sooo pretty.

Great tune

All nicely executed on a Squier strat😎

The best rock band I have ever seen live. I was very disappointed when they split up.

すげー！カッコいい！ すげー！演奏力&歌力！

Fanbloodytastic, thanks for posting. 😀

Fookin brill !.

Great band. Talented and rocking. Should have had much more success!

They hv a lot of "Yes" in them GOOD BAND none the less

great song

They would be big today if they reappeared!

I often wondered what Kurt Cobain did before he joined Nirvana. 😊

i used to live next door to the drummer :|

東京で見ることができたんだね…あとやっぱりフランシスダナリーが好きだ

Went to see them in Dudley when they first started. An amazing set of instrumentalists.

Went to see marillion live at Edinburgh playhouse, these guys were support act. pleasantly surprised.

このライブ行きたかったなー(T-T) フランシスダナリーめちゃくちゃかっこよかったなぁ(≧∀≦)

Awesome saw them in preston

WOOT they re recording this for the flood fund , go on my son

Bass is Beast 😎🤘

I'm just discovering Francis Dunnery and kind of working my way backward through his catalog. This is a cool song! Only thing I'm not so hot on is the keyboard sounds. That's really the only thing that totally dates it to the 80s. Is this concert on dvd?

I do this on karaoke, crowd seems to like it :)

Always a knockout

The writing was on the wall when Frank's guitar was louder than the rest of the band.

Egremonts finest!

4:26... I think this is where Frank's Irish roots come through...

I always thought francis looked like brian setzer !

.... and I wish I had hair like these guys 😪

That was even but than the studio version 👍

This is where Kurt Cobain got his look from.

I thought this was kurt cobain

is ur guitar loud enough frank

Kurt kobain??

I spit on those muso wankers who dissed It Bites. These guys were all about good music and great playing and this live version sums it up.

Guitar's a bit loud there Frank

Scunthorpe anyone

his shirts looks like Pat Metheney

They went too ROCK, would have been bigger if they'd doen a Go West!... GREAT TRACK this though!

Amazing talent....they should have gone full on Prog, Being all 'cute' doesnt work for the girl market, girls dont buy music

Kurt Cobain that is

I can't listen to the studio version any more - the middle section is SHIT compared to the live variation!

kurt cobain? NO WAY! i can not understand what you say. F better than C exactly

Absolutely travesty that these guys didn't go on to a long and successful career. Just the wrong era for this kind of music.

Drummer gets no attention lol wtf...

They were good - they were never cool.

Guitar was way to loud, Whoever mixed it did a shit job.

it bites these guys were brilliant musicians but never but never really did anything and now dunery must only be scraping a living sad