The Starting Gate Café was gaining a bit or notoriety in Buffalo as the cool club to play at. It hosted prestigious up and coming bands and we were glad to be considered one of them. It was a nice little…
💡 It was Labor Day weekend and a local Buffalo tavern called Kitty’s Dodge City Saloon was hosting a ‘battle of the bands’ beginning Sunday, September 2nd and ending on Monday September 3rd. For some reason, we were asked to…
😉 🙂 Somewhere along the 98 freeway, six miles South of Crystal Lake road, past the sleepy town of Sandusky, lies Franklinville NY, home of the infamous Kinfolk Corral. This gig is a shining example of accepting a contract to perform without all of…
This was a very busy week for Parousia and it all started on Wednesday, October 8th when we performed at the Pardi Bar in Cheektowaga, NY and then on Thursday, October 9th at the Holland Willows in Olean, where at…
First Gig at Prince of Wales – Saturday March 28, 1981 Unfortunately this Prince of Wales gig added to the growing animosity between Parousia and Cross Roads (aka: the BEEZ). It had been going on for some time. Our two…
“On Wednesday June 8th KROQ and the Poorman present a bunch of funny guys called Parousia whose original sound has been likened to “James Brown, Tuna Fish and pornographic Gumby movies.” …Yikes again!” That was the blurb about our band…
Lou’s Inn was a very large club on the scale of an Uncle Sam’s. It was built inside an airport hanger in the city of Westfield located in Chautauqua County, New York, 66 miles away from Buffalo… Sounds like a…
This was Parousia’s first show in 1977 and signified our return to performing in school halls. It had been an entire year since our awkward performance at Holy Angels in May of 1976 and in no way did we want to repeat those…
Friday April 20, 1979 – Calasanctius School -167 Windsor Avenue. Buffalo, NY This was our first time performing for Calasanctius. We had just finished playing at “The Masthead” on Grant Street last Monday where we rocked it with “The George,”…
