The band’s second gig at Shutters & Boards was booked on a Thursday night, October 15th, 1981. Shutters & Boards was a premier rock venue in Niagara Falls, NY and featured live bands on stage six-nights a week. The notoriety…
Archipelago is a noun meaning a group of many islands in a large body of water and just so happens to describe the rock band Parousia to a tee. Each musician distinctly different yet sharing certain artistic influences and goals…
The indelible Parousia, back again at Dad’s Café on Thursday, November 5, 1981. This was the band’s fourth show at Dad’s Café making it clean past the “three-time rule”, we cheated “band death” all thanks to the many loyal and…
On June 28, 1986, Parousia held its eighth show-case performance at the Chamber, the band’s personal art and performance space bordering the band’s home cities of Kenmore and Buffalo. The strategic location of the Chamber gave our friends and fans…
This was our first Friday / Saturday back-to-back gig at the Plant 6, July 11-12, 1980. It was mid-summer and baseball season was in full “swing”. Many of the bars and clubs hosted local sports teams for [insert name of…
Parousia’s February gig at Uncle Sam’s was scheduled to be the band’s first of the New Year after taking hiatus in January to rest after a very busy December that included shows at much larger venues like Uncle Sam’s, The…
This was Parousia’s third and final performance for the graduating class of Calasanctius. The grand event was held at Davio’s on Niagara Falls Blvd. Davio’s, an Italian restaurant and banquet hall, had two or three large rooms that I can…
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…