Here are six (6) video clips recorded in 1979 when Parousia rented an awesome rehearsal space in a giant brick industrial building on Rano Street in Black Rock. [huge_it_videogallery id=”3″] Our studio was located upstairs in a big warehouse that had several…
Saturday August 8th, (a prime spot in the hierarchy of gigs) on a hot and humid summer night’ at McVan’s. Joe T Rose “guaranteed” (Ha!) to pay the band $100.00 to open for a group named, ‘Video’ (formerly known as…
This show came right after the Parousia name appeared in the annual “Bar Exam,” published on April 27th in the Canisius College newspaper, The Griffin. Spring was in the Buffalo air, a time for hitting the clubs and partying outdoors…
Parousia (Perousia) landed a back-to-back gig on a Saturday and Sunday night in January and found ourselves on the same bill with some great talent. It was a good weekend at McVans. College students were out of school, Out of…
On Saturday, July 25 1981, Parousia had the overwhelming experience of headlining a hockey arena in Port Colborne, Canada. It was our one chance at doing the thing that we always pictured ourselves doing, playing a large venue to a…
Here are some live recordings from one of Parousia’s most revered and longest running venue’s, Melanie’s. Parousia’s First Gig at Melanie’s July 20,1980 The July 1980 show at Melanie’s marked the beginning of Parousia’s new “Good vs. Evil” show set…
1st Gig at Plant 6 Niagara St. – September 27th 1979 As noted on our politically incorrect flyer, this was our first gig with Michelle Improta, our new “girl singer” who was set to replace Kim Watts (I guess that…
“I remember this bar being packed with wall to wall people… it was an extremely popular club at the time located behind Buffalo State College, (Buff State was/is the ”Party College”). The weird thing about the Masthead was that it…
Parousia played in a popular Irish pub known locally as “Tell It To Mc Ginty’s” on Seneca Street several times in 1979 (July 6 and 7, 1979 and August 18, 1979). It was a smaller neighborhood bar, not really known…
