Following Parousia’s concert at Buff State College “Drink and Drown”, March 6th and successful coup at the Fast Annie’s “Spring Jam”, March 15th there was the band’s concert at Daemen College, Friday night, March 20, 1981. At this point…
Following the band’s well received debut gig at the Fast Annie’s Spring Jam back in March, we anticipated having a good time tonight for our long awaited December ‘solo show’, where unlike the Spring Jam, Parousia would be the only…
“Who’s Got The Gig?” was the headline across the article printed in “Worlds Thunder Current” a college newspaper published September 4, 1979, featuring a review of Parousia’s back-to-back weekend performances at Brush Gardens March 9-10 and March 16-17, 1979. It…
Following our successful show at the Bill’s Lair Halloween party, the club owner booked us for an encore gig; an after Christmas show on Saturday December 27th for $275.00! Lot’s of folks came out to hear a live band on…
In spring of 1975 we started practicing our songs in my garage on Baxter Street in Riverside. It was Barry, me and Patrick jamming out music next to my Dad’s oil-dripping Chevy Malibu station wagon near an animal hutch that…
Ever since I’ve known the guy, creating new and interesting art has always described the activities of Robert Lowden. When he first joined up with the band Parousia in 1978, he showed a ravenous curiosity in learning, inventing, with a…
Performing the gig at Casey’s, March 19, 1990 was a lot like playing at a club back in Buffalo, NY, with hard-core rock music fans that love to get out to a local club and see a live band. The…
If the band Parousia ever had an experimental artistic period, it was here at “The Chamber.” Our Saturday night shows had become a regular “thing” in the neighborhood. The Chamber was a place you could hang out, have a few…
In case you haven’t heard of it before, Olcott is a hamlet, (isn’t a ‘hamlet’ a small ham sandwich?) located in the Town of Newfane in Niagara County, NY. It is a quaint lakeside community, home to the deepest harbor…
As you can see in the flyer, on this night (Sunday, March 15, 1981) Parousia was scheduled as the last band on stage, after a very long night of musical acts beginning at 3:00 pm in the afternoon and ending…
Phillip Christopher of Multi-Media Attractions became Parousia’s first formal booking agent. A large part of Phil’s entertainment industry experience came from performing and producing shows with the popular 50’s cover band, ‘Big Wheelie & The Hubcaps’. Phil was assisted by…
Bill’s Lair in Gowanda, NY was located North of Salamanca and East of Fredonia. The club was a large venue with a nice sized stage with plenty of room to spread out. The gig at Bill’s Lair (11/1/1980) marked a…
