This might be the greatest punk rock anthem ever recorded. I bought the album when it first came out and have been a fan ever since. I am 69 now, but Holly will never, ever get old.
It's the future...May 2024...and this video is still an amazing live performance. The fadeout with the credits and the big finish is just amazing....and who is bass player....??? And where is Holly???
this is amazing, been said so many times, but how many lesser talents rose while this woman remains a cult figure? she's got the song writing talent, the voice, presence, looks all underappreciated
@filler7359 DeeDee & Johnny weren't Jews. Neither was Marky, Richie, or CJ. Don't undermine the whole band, they were the greatest band next to the Beach Boys.
Holly and the Italians were one of the very best rock bands of the 70s/80s that were never given an opportunity to access mass markets. There was no UA-cam, you either got a major record label contract or faded into oblivion. A real tragedy, and that goes for the Nuns while I'm at it.
This is a treasure, probably the only live live video in the internet, "Youth Coup" and "Rock Against Romance" from the first album Holly & The Italians - The Right To Be Italian (1981). Always great to come here and watch it. Thank you bunches for sharing.
I have both of her early albums. The first is great but I think the second is even better. Honalu is a killer track. Like so many others I can't imagine how she didn't become big.
Dear Holly Beth, your music could be on top of the charts even now! I love the way you play.. Your sound is precious and unique as well and its strength remains along the time.
If my aging memory serves me well, I believe Holly and Johnette Napolitano pf Cpmcrete Blonde fame briefly put together a band called "Vowel Movement". Imagine that. What a pair of voices those two make.
In the early 1990s when concrete blonde had hit it big, Holly Beth Vincent's band The oblivious were the opening act. I remember seeing them both play live in 1994
Good things come to those who wait (and search frequently). Thanks for this priceless document featuring the self-confessed "Gerald Ford of guitar playing" (see cast). The British papers built Holly up and knocked her down again in the span of a few short months, but we've never forgotten her contributions. Vastly underrated. Thanks again, BikingDirect.
This band was way way way way way way underrated. I've been digging The Right to be Italian since the early 80's. I've always thought that Holly had the sexiest voice in rock. Now I can see that her looks match her voice. Thanks for posting the clip. I'd love to see more.
I got to see Holly & The Italians open for the Ramones in San Antonio. She absolutely kicked ass. Hard to believe anyone could open for the Ramones and hold their own, but she did. I was totally smitten and would have given a kidney for a kiss from Holly.
thanks for posting this, I still have my WPLJ button from the Ramones show in Central Park from the summer of '78. Holly and the Italians were the oipening act,and I still remeber being blown away by a women fronting a punk band and playing guitar. Imagine a women actually singing and playing and writing songs. Way ahead of her time, total inspiration to to me as a musician. And totally hot on top of every thing else. Long live Holly and the Italians.
Wow - I didn't know she did Whistle Test. Saw her in London, probably 80-81, at the Nashville Rooms in West Kensington, I think. She was completely amazing. To this day that show at the Nashville and her kick-ass performance remains one of the best I ever saw (and that list includes a lot of acts!). I don't understand why she didn't become huge. Virgin Records had a superstar on their hands - I wonder what went wrong.
While Beat Club and Shindig had many awesome performances, no TV rock show can even come close to what OGWT produced. The performances were raw, from the heart, soulful, and so unique. I wish some cable network would start showing Whistle Test so I don't have to keep searching uTube for these performances!!!!
Yep. Imagine people who are used to compositions like "Telegraph Road" or "Brothers in Arms" go check this lady from "Romeo and Juliet" and find THIS... 😆🤣😂😝🥴🤧🥵😅
i have to laugh at how holly was chewing gum during the performance, lol...particularly considering that she was the lead singer. that could have gone south in a hurry, but thankfully it didn't. then there was the left leg in a cast, to boot. but she didn't even flinch. this was in 1980 OR '8. she was a bit of a pioneer as a woman fronting a rock band, especially playing early alternative stuff. very glad to have seen this, just wish the ending wasn't cut off.
Saw Holly at the Nashville Room in West London. One of the best gigs I ever saw. She was magnificent. Went out and bought "Miles Away" and never heard of her again.
I saw this band open for Concrete Blonde in Kalamazoo, MI in around 93-94 I think and still remember their amazing cover of "Teenage Wasteland." Bought their tape after the show and listened to it pretty regularly it for several years. Good music! I don't know why I thought to look them up this morning, but I'm very happy this is here. Thanks for sharing!
must have been Vowel Movement, holly's short-lived other band that was around at that time. the band in this video was defunct at least a decade before then.
Fantastic songs by Holly And The Italians (Holly Beth Vincent). Not sure if Holly is still touring, but I would agree that Holly could have been just as big, if not bigger, than the Pretenders! I think Holly Beth Vincent was/is genius, musically, and probably one of the most under-rated musicians of all time! Holly please come out and your again! And, if you read this, what the heck does it say on your cast?
Rock Against Romance (second song in this vid) is a great tune... I vaguely remember it from back in the day - glad to find it here - thanks for posting!
i Saw Holly & Teh Italians in a small club in Stroud Gloucestershire, They were great and should have been huge, Great album and 5 singles - you should all track them down.
@electrotrancemaker The original singer for the Waitresses was Patty Donahue who recorded " I know what boy like" Holly Beth Vincent only replaced her for a two week period. Patty Donahue died of lung cancer at the age of 40 on December 9, 1996
This is fantastic, had no idea any live footage even existed. This was one of my favorite 80s / New Wave albums. Very under the radar by awesome. Could have easily been as big as the Pretenders. What ever happened to them?
This reminds me a helluva lot of the opening track on the old Akron, Ohio compilation from Stiff Records. What was her name? Not Rachel Sweet--although Sweet did backing vocals on the number in question. I'll get it in a second... Oh yeah! 'When I Was Young' by Jane Aire & The Belvederes!
Holly Beth became the singer for The Waitresses - who had a huge hit with "I Know What Boys Like" but after that she dissapeared. Probably settled down and had 6 kids :)
This band was great.They should have recorded on the album. "Rock Against Romance" has a real "Rock 'n' Roll" VU guitar sound to it. Holly was a great front woman and guitarist.
My Mum played guitar with them in the late 70s possibly early 80s. Did you know that Holly is the woman that the song Romeo and Juliet by Dire straits is about ?
Just played mine tonight. Have had it since then. Great sounding record. Shows the Transvision Vamp version of Tell That Girl to be the complete merde it was.
she never got big, because men didn't like how she was smart about men, and men always stop women the more right they are. Gorgeous, talented, real... it was all male gaming. That's why.
This might be the greatest punk rock anthem ever recorded. I bought the album when it first came out and have been a fan ever since. I am 69 now, but Holly will never, ever get old.
I knew Holly in high school. She was my friend Nick's older sister. You should see her play drums. BIG sticks. ❤
My daughter is called Holly. Everyone thinks she's a December child but she was born in August. She is actually named after Holly Beth Vincent.
Nothing is hotter than a brunette wearing a blue cocktail dress playing a Fender stratocaster with a cast on her left leg.
It's the future...May 2024...and this video is still an amazing live performance. The fadeout with the credits and the big finish is just amazing....and who is bass player....??? And where is Holly???
this is amazing, been said so many times, but how many lesser talents rose while this woman remains a cult figure? she's got the song writing talent, the voice, presence, looks all underappreciated
I do so agree.
Karma.
@@filler7359 You've obviously never heard Unoriginal Sin
@@RidgeRunner-lz5kowhat do you mean?... did she had a bad karma?
@filler7359 DeeDee & Johnny weren't Jews. Neither was Marky, Richie, or CJ. Don't undermine the whole band, they were the greatest band next to the Beach Boys.
Holly and the Italians were one of the very best rock bands of the 70s/80s that were never given an opportunity to access mass markets. There was no UA-cam, you either got a major record label contract or faded into oblivion. A real tragedy, and that goes for the Nuns while I'm at it.
I wish I could give this more than one thumbs up.
Thanks for the comments. Been watching/listening to this for 25 years and it still sounds as good today as it did back then.
I love Holly!
This is a treasure, probably the only live live video in the internet, "Youth Coup" and "Rock Against Romance" from the first album Holly & The Italians - The Right To Be Italian (1981). Always great to come here and watch it. Thank you bunches for sharing.
Saw them in a power performance at a tiny Cheltenham club in 81...went backstage, and she signed my student railcard!
The whole album is GREAT...so underrated!
Rock Against Romance was always one of my Favorite 80's songs. Good to see they could rip through this song live as well.
Gotta luv a girl who can belt out a song and not lose her chewing gum.
I have both of her early albums. The first is great but I think the second is even better. Honalu is a killer track. Like so many others I can't imagine how she didn't become big.
Underrated band- underrated album...!
Rated perfectly.
Brilliant ! Cant stop watching this. Its criminal that these CD' are so hard to find.
Dear Holly Beth,
your music could be on top of the charts even now!
I love the way you play..
Your sound is precious and unique as well and its strength remains along the time.
Dynamic performance! ~ Excellent!
If my aging memory serves me well, I believe Holly and Johnette Napolitano pf Cpmcrete Blonde fame briefly put together a band called "Vowel Movement". Imagine that. What a pair of voices those two make.
Yes, a great little CD. Also check out the Pretty and Twisted album, if you haven't already
In the early 1990s when concrete blonde had hit it big, Holly Beth Vincent's band The oblivious were the opening act. I remember seeing them both play live in 1994
I bought both her albums when they came out. Maybe there WAS a youth coup. I never grew up!
Good things come to those who wait (and search frequently). Thanks for this priceless document featuring the self-confessed "Gerald Ford of guitar playing" (see cast). The British papers built Holly up and knocked her down again in the span of a few short months, but we've never forgotten her contributions. Vastly underrated. Thanks again, BikingDirect.
This band was way way way way way way underrated. I've been digging The Right to be Italian since the early 80's. I've always thought that Holly had the sexiest voice in rock. Now I can see that her looks match her voice. Thanks for posting the clip. I'd love to see more.
I got to see Holly & The Italians open for the Ramones in San Antonio. She absolutely kicked ass. Hard to believe anyone could open for the Ramones and hold their own, but she did. I was totally smitten and would have given a kidney for a kiss from Holly.
thanks for posting this, I still have my WPLJ button from the Ramones show in Central Park from the summer of '78. Holly and the Italians were the oipening act,and I still remeber being blown away by a women fronting a punk band and playing guitar. Imagine a women actually singing and playing and writing songs. Way ahead of her time, total inspiration to to me as a musician. And totally hot on top of every thing else. Long live Holly and the Italians.
Wow - I didn't know she did Whistle Test. Saw her in London, probably 80-81, at the Nashville Rooms in West Kensington, I think. She was completely amazing. To this day that show at the Nashville and her kick-ass performance remains one of the best I ever saw (and that list includes a lot of acts!). I don't understand why she didn't become huge. Virgin Records had a superstar on their hands - I wonder what went wrong.
While Beat Club and Shindig had many awesome performances, no TV rock show can even come close to what OGWT produced. The performances were raw, from the heart, soulful, and so unique.
I wish some cable network would start showing Whistle Test so I don't have to keep searching uTube for these performances!!!!
Holly and Mark knobfler, talk about beauty and the beast. The guitarist was Dave Wight from the great punk band London.
So allegedly she’s the reason Mark Knopfler wrote “Romeo and Juliet”. This may be her best feat.
Listen to her music, and you will realize that doesn't even make the least of her top 50 feats
@@stevehardman4686 No, inspiring a real rock classic would be far superior to any of her own output.
Yep. Imagine people who are used to compositions like "Telegraph Road" or "Brothers in Arms" go check this lady from "Romeo and Juliet" and find THIS... 😆🤣😂😝🥴🤧🥵😅
Sounds like Hollys signing "Theres going to be a YOUUTUBBEE" lol Fantastic
i have to laugh at how holly was chewing gum during the performance, lol...particularly considering that she was the lead singer. that could have gone south in a hurry, but thankfully it didn't. then there was the left leg in a cast, to boot. but she didn't even flinch. this was in 1980 OR '8. she was a bit of a pioneer as a woman fronting a rock band, especially playing early alternative stuff. very glad to have seen this, just wish the ending wasn't cut off.
Thanks for posting this! I seen it first time round on the Old Grey Whistle Test and have been looking for it since. Brilliant!
Saw Holly at the Nashville Room in West London. One of the best gigs I ever saw. She was magnificent. Went out and bought "Miles Away" and never heard of her again.
I was happy to find the first lp at a store last week, only 5 bucks too! but I cant give it away, I use it for my dj night
I saw this band open for Concrete Blonde in Kalamazoo, MI in around 93-94 I think and still remember their amazing cover of "Teenage Wasteland." Bought their tape after the show and listened to it pretty regularly it for several years. Good music! I don't know why I thought to look them up this morning, but I'm very happy this is here. Thanks for sharing!
must have been Vowel Movement, holly's short-lived other band that was around at that time. the band in this video was defunct at least a decade before then.
@@equin0xia It would have been her band the Oblivious which put out their only album in 1993. Vowel Movement was 1995.
I saw that same tour in Cincinnati, one of the highlights of my teen years!! I still have that Oblivious album I bought at the show!
@@equin0xia It was The Oblivious
@@111redthread Great tunes!
The record company is downright insane for never having put that out on CD...
I still rock "Right to be Italian", wha t a great group.
Great stuff ! ... always loved this band ... Holly rocks !
Legendary! Long live tha rockk!
@BigAggie
i saw the San Antonio show, and yes, one of the best nights of my life too. magical and intoxicating...
Great stuff ! ... always loved this band ... they had some fantastic and memorable songs ... Holly rocks !
damn, she plays guitar, sing, and chew gum at the same time.
Fantastic songs by Holly And The Italians (Holly Beth Vincent). Not sure if Holly is still touring, but I would agree that Holly could have been just as big, if not bigger, than the Pretenders! I think Holly Beth Vincent was/is genius, musically, and probably one of the most under-rated musicians of all time! Holly please come out and your again! And, if you read this, what the heck does it say on your cast?
She used to date Mark Knopfler way back when. The Dire Straits song Romeo and Juliet was inspired by her.
MK rules.
LOVE Holly and the Italians!
Never saw them live but I still play their album frequently.
Rock Against Romance (second song in this vid) is a great tune... I vaguely remember it from back in the day - glad to find it here - thanks for posting!
Thanks for posting the video, 'Rock Against Romance' is a great unknown 80's song along with 'Tell That Girl To Shutup' great stuff!
I loved this group !!!! I was watching the Marvelous Mrs Maisel and they played "tell that girl to shut up" in the credits and I lost it.
I think it's early summer 1980. I was at a friends house in Chiswick, London at the time and remember their slot on the show
i Saw Holly & Teh Italians in a small club in Stroud Gloucestershire, They were great and should have been huge, Great album and 5 singles - you should all track them down.
@electrotrancemaker The original singer for the Waitresses was Patty Donahue who recorded " I know what boy like" Holly Beth Vincent only replaced her for a two week period. Patty Donahue died of lung cancer at the age of 40 on December 9, 1996
I love it! : )
love their debut album and especially the songs rock against romance and tell that girl to shut up but youth coup is also good stuff.
This is fantastic, had no idea any live footage even existed. This was one of my favorite 80s / New Wave albums. Very under the radar by awesome. Could have easily been as big as the Pretenders. What ever happened to them?
holly shit this is fucking incredible
This reminds me a helluva lot of the opening track on the old Akron, Ohio compilation from Stiff Records. What was her name? Not Rachel Sweet--although Sweet did backing vocals on the number in question. I'll get it in a second... Oh yeah! 'When I Was Young' by Jane Aire & The Belvederes!
I love that song!
Holly Beth became the singer for The Waitresses - who had a huge hit with "I Know What Boys Like" but after that she dissapeared. Probably settled down and had 6 kids :)
Disappeared just before the Waitresses played a gig at Columbia University. Hard drugs.
This band was great.They should have recorded on the album. "Rock Against Romance" has a real "Rock 'n' Roll" VU guitar sound to it. Holly was a great front woman and guitarist.
it was on the album...it was called "the right to be italian."
@@equin0xia, yes, but I'm talking about the backing band, not the song.
Best band ever.
Great ! Thankx for posting. I think that this is the only live H & TI vid on UA-cam !!
The song is called "Youth Coop"
Thanks for posting this. Great clip. Cheers.
My Mum played guitar with them in the late 70s possibly early 80s. Did you know that Holly is the woman that the song Romeo and Juliet by Dire straits is about ?
Correction, my Mum was in an all-girl band with Holly. I'll have to ask her my memory's crap.
Most people know it and look for her on YT when they learn it. That's probably 90% of views here, including me.
"Rock against romance" has been a favorite for years. A pity it's difficult to get a copy on CD.
couldn't agree more
wow!
@electrotrancemaker Yes and its amazing i love this!!
Just played mine tonight. Have had it since then. Great sounding record. Shows the Transvision Vamp version of Tell That Girl to be the complete merde it was.
1) Youth Coup
2) Rock Against Romance
OMG, I cannot possibly express to you how happy I am that you posted this!
I love "Rock Against Romance" & it's hard to find.
Thank you so much!
Hi There B, is this the Girl that mark Knopler wrote Romeo and Juliet about,,,,,,,,,,,,, just wondering
Yes she is
What year was this performed? How old would Holly be in this video?
Do you think Holly has seen this yet ??
@prettybionic She is HOT. And a great rock n' roller too.
Marry me Holly
Wow...
That bass tone, though!
I learned piano the old fashioned way. Time.
I got you babe!
i have a picture disc of the 45! Anyone want to but it....its in great shape!
Ha. It does sound like that.
Mark (bass player in the film) thanks for your email I will reply soon.
she never got big, because men didn't like how she was smart about men, and men always stop women the more right they are. Gorgeous, talented, real... it was all male gaming. That's why.
Youth Coup.
great, would love to get a copy of her first Lp...anyone?
Great..more Holly videos.. There's gonna be Youth Coop!
yes. Awesome. Siouxsie did it first and still does it. Not much with the guitar but....
She's on Facebook hollybethvincent
She has a myspace page
Comments please, from Holly!?
kinda sounds derivative of " Heidi's head" by kleenex as well as the
Buzzcocks "i dont mind"
Is she saying, "There's gotta be a You Tube!" hehehe
Ahh OK thanks.
I had thought that she had replaced Patty Donahue permanently.
I think I got it will let you know.
picture sleeve i mean
Holly had some cool stuff. Too bad that she wasn't bigger than she was.
Was a mispelling.
WHAT YEAR PLEASE
+shaftsbury94 id say early 1980's
+scousemark62 The copyright notice right at the very end of the clip says BBC MCMLXXXI. In Roman numerals that's 1981.
Banished from the U.K.
Same riff of Dictators' Next big thing😅
Maybe if she hadn't dumped Mark Knopfler!