Buffalo Music: Highlights from Clockers, Perilous, Abruptors, Iron Fist

By Elmer Ploetz
(Photos by Elmer Ploetz)

Remembering the Continental has become a Buffalo tradition over the past 20 years.

Bud Redding has been the driving force behind multiple shows at the Town Ballroom, and he says that Saturday night’s show is his last reunion for the punk/new wave/goth/industrial landmark music venue at 212 Franklin St. So we needed to get photographic evidence.

This editor couldn’t stay for the whole night … like the Continental itself, the show went late into the night. There were sets from seven bands up front, plus DJs spinning in the back. That’s a lot of music.

However, we did get shots from four of the bands: The Clockers, Perilous, the Abruptors and Iron Fist with Greg Reynard doing a mostlyl Ramones set).

Here is what they looked like:

CLOCKERS:

PERILOUS

THE ABRUPTORS

IRON FIST (playing the songs of the Ramones)

Elmer Ploetz is editor-in-chief of The Buffalo Hive.