Archival Buffalo News feature articles 1980s

  I suspect this review was longer and got cut due to lack of space.     March 8, 1980  Openers Steal Show           The sellout Lene Lovich concert Friday night was the main event of the season for Buffalo's New Wave rock crowd.           They were all there in the Fillmore Room of Squire Hall on the State University of Buffalo's Main Street Campus – the crowd from Rockers, the crowd from McVan's – standing in their tight satin pants and their striped hair and their leather jackets and their buttons.           But first they had to wait. They waited two hours in the lobby for a show that was supposed to begin at 7:30 p.m.           Sound problems were the reason – not enough mikes for Lovich. The sound check look forever. The crowd kept building. Extra tickets were put on sale.  ...

  Another almost-forgotten Fillmore Room frolic. March 5, 1980  Pearl Harbor Blasts Are Right on Target           Look. Out in the lobby. It’s … no, it can’t be. The woman has to be a punk-rock refugee from McVan’s. It’s the hair – short on tip, straggly in the back. But wait, what about those gorgeous cheekbones? Even under all that makeup, they could only belong to Pearl E. Gates.           Once she’s up there in front of the band Tuesday night for a couple hundred kids in the Fillmore Room of Squire Hall on the State University of Buffalo Main Street Campus, it all falls into place. This is Pearl Harbor and the Explosions. Their mission: Get you dancing.           Everything they launch is right on target. Short and punchy, their songs take flight on the bass and drums, soar on their harmonies and zero in with just the merest splash of rhyth...