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…
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…
The Shutters & Boards gig on June 2nd was Parousia’s first local show without vocals from the illustrious Ms. Kim Watts, who had just quit the band as a protest against our intention to accept good-paying gigs no matter where…
Columbus Day was a day-off for some people but not the majority, so we weren’t sure on the number of friends and fans that would show up in North Hollywood on Monday night when on Tuesday morning many had to get-up early for work. As it turned out, we…
Searching the internet for the original rock band PAROUSIA from Buffalo, NY, can sometimes prove challenging and confusing. For example, your dogged and relentless search may have led you to a band out of Saint Louis Missouri called STAGHORN and…
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…
