The Starting Gate Café was gaining a bit of notoriety in Buffalo. It hosted many prestigious up-and-coming local bands and we were glad to be one of them. It was a nice medium-sized club on the corner of Seneca and…
This show was supposed to be the bands debut at the highly coveted Stage One, co-owned by concert-promoting wunderkinds Harvey & Corky. The Stage-One was considered a premier rock venue in Western NY, comparable to Uncle Sam’s and After Dark or in present…
The demise of the band seemed inevitable. We were depressed from a string of ‘hard-luck’ gigs that destroyed our spirits, our finances and our goals. Inside of a month we were threatened with a lawsuit (because our soundman destroyed the…
It was summer vacation for students and the college kids were out in full-force and well into advanced party-mode when Parousia took the stage to play for this awesome crowd. We decided to wrap-up the second set of the night with a cover of the…
Spring time found Parousia springing back to the Holland Willows way out in Holland NY. Our Saturday May 9th show at the Willow’s was part of a very busy month for the band, full of ups and downs. It all…
The Buffalo Night-Life article above mentions the closing of the 97th season of Crystal Beach Park on Labor Day, 1985. Exactly three years later, in 1989, the park would shut its doors for good. I well remember this magical place…
Saturday, March 22, 1980, our second time performing for the gifted students of Calasanctius high. This time we were playing “off-campus” at a school sponsored Junior Achievement event, held at the coastal Holiday Inn, Grand Island. The band looked forward…
This was Parousia’s first gig at the Plant 6 on Niagara Street in Black Rock. It was very near the band’s primary long-term performance venue, McVan’s nite club (Niagara and Hertel) and our rehearsal place was just down the road…
This was the band’s first performance at one of the biggest night clubs in Buffalo. Uncle Sam’s featured national recording artists and the best bands that Western NY had to offer. Tonight, Parousia was appearing as an opening act for…
