I've followed Sally Spitz since 2016. At the time, she fronted the punk band French Vanilla. That date in 2016 was a residency night at The Echo. I obviously don't recall all the details from that night, but I do remember it well. Drinking Flowers was the residency band. Bassist Jade Christensen had a jar / cup / box (I don't exactly remember) that was filled with glitter. She started to sprinkle the audience with the glitter. I was taking photos at the end of stage left. When she got to me, she just dumped what was left of the glitter right on top of me. I was finding glitter years later on my camera and camera lenses. I am still using that same camera bag from that night and I suspect that if I went looking through it with a magnifying glass, I'd find some glitter in there somewhere. Mercy, maybe there's still some in my hair or inner ear, who knows, it was a lot of glitter that got dumped on me. Also playing that night was HOTT MT, a band that I really do need to see again. I've followed that band since 2014.
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| Sally Spitz at Hotel Ziggy |
I believe French Vanilla broke up during the time that venues shut down. That didn't end her music endeavors. Once venues opened back up, she started to perform as a solo act. In 2021, I caught her set at Permanent Records Roadhouse where she tossed out the quote of the night, "I'm single. I'm on anti-depressants." Also, playing that night was Dove Armitage. It was my first encounter with the Quincy Larsen project (but not my first encounter ever with Larsen).
Another cool encounter was after the Super Bowl in 2024 at Zebulon. Heading to Zebulon after watching the Super Bowl has become a three year straight tradition for me.
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| Sally Spitz at Hotel Ziggy |
That Super Bowl after party was the last time I saw Sally Spitz until . . .
I happened to notice that she was going to be playing a WFNM night at Hotel Ziggy. I circled the date, because it was definitely time to catch another set. As the date approached, I starting to become concerned that I wouldn't be able to attend the set. The following starts to sound like a Friends episode where Chandler Bing is stuck at work late at night waiting for a database to be properly updated for the month. That is basically what happened to me. A short version of the story is: Someone was supposed to provide my team with some information from a database. The database was going through some upgrades and so delivery of the information kept on getting delayed due to an unsuccessful upgrade. Luckily for me, hands were eventually tossed into the air and that meant off I went to catch Sally Spitz.
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| Sally Spitz at Hotel Ziggy |
The set was a genre mixing adventure. She started off the set with the quiet singer-songwriter song "Milky Way" where she was sitting on a folding chair with a guitar. Then she jumped into her electronic pop song "Lovebuzz." Jumping should be taken literally. She left the folding chair and grooved her way through the song with some hair swinging. Her song "Tag Your Sign" was also a singer-songwriter song with occasional DJ scratching from the tracks. She mentioned it is about being an artist and "leaving your mark on the world."
"Lovebuzz" is a song I'd love to hear with a full band. Like French Vanilla songs, the song included the sounds of a saxophone (via the tracks).
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| Sally Spitz at Hotel Ziggy |
You are just a bug
Think that you're so tough
In regards to her setlist, the only released song was "LOVEBUZZ." The remaining are on her latest album Earth Sequence, which was released on March 7th, which you can listen to below.
Setlist: Milky Way Sky, LOVEBUZZ, Faces, Tag Your Sign, Right Beside You, Karma Beat, Anzio.
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