Here are videos of Parousia performing select songs from their Virtual Reality show at the Troubadour on September 21st 1991. When the band departed from Buffalo NY to seek fortune in Los Angeles, CA, it was hard to believe that…
The Wooden Nickel was one of the cooler stages to perform on, but it wasn’t an easy gig to produce. Putting on a show there meant a very long drive to play at a decent club with a diverse audience…
May 21st, 1981, Parousia’s return gig to Dad’s Cafe on Clinton Street in Buffalo, we were paid $200.00. Both Dave Styn (“head roadie”) and Mike Carroll (lighting technician) were paid $40.00 each. We had two more roadies working for us tonight, Keith…
The band’s return to the Plant-6 on November 28 was preceded by a whirl-wind of gigs. It all began on Thursday, November 5th at Dad’s Café, on Clinton Street in Buffalo, followed by two-nights (Friday & Saturday) Nov. 13th &…
This was Parousia’s first time performing for the gifted students of Calasanctius. The band recently finished up a great week following our gig at “The Masthead” on Grant Street, a very crowded hip & trendy club near Buff State College,…
Following Parousia’s Thanksgiving Eve performance at the Holland Willows on Nov. 26, the band returned for an encore on Friday December 5, 1980. The week after Thanksgiving was a whirl-wind for the band. It all started on Wednesday, December 3rd…
The band’s sixth concert at the loft studio known as The Chamber. A place where original music and art collided. Sometimes the collision produced something useful, sometimes not but it was the experimentation that inspired us to do more and…
This was Parousia’s end-of-the-year gig on the most ultimate party night ever created in the history of partydom, New Years Eve. It fell on a Thursday night this year which marked the start of a long holiday weekend. The college…
The band was called to do this performance last minute on a Monday night. We already had a gig at Wong’s booked for Thursday, February 15th but the urgent call from the bar manager asking for us to appear was…
