Get in the Shower With Spencer Day Adam Sandel - Advocate
go to original December 5, 2015

Spencer Day is not only one of the most talented singer-songwriters around — with five albums of original, finely crafted, bluesy-jazzy songs — the gay performer is offering fans a chance to help him create his new album, Angel City.

In the video for his Indiegogo campaign to raise funds for the album, Day makes his appealing appeal from the shower, because — well, why not? As of this writing, the project was (ahem) 69 percent funded. What’s unusual about the campaign are the perks that he’s offering to high-end donors, including house or benefit concerts, personally recorded videos, and backstage VIP tickets to his shows.

His upcoming live shows include December 9-10 at Feinstein’s in San Francisco, December 14-20 at the Palm Cabaret in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and January 12-16 at the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach, Fla.

In an exclusive interview, Day explains that the songs in Angel City were inspired by the three years he spent living in Hollywood. “The songs are about any place that people hold up as a grail that will hold their salvation,” he says. “But no city can live up to the expectations that we heap on it to make our dreams come true.”

He describes Angel City’s musical style as, “film noir sounds combined with a ’70s Elton John-like pop aesthetic.”

Of his fundraising campaign, Day says, “I’m really excited that so much music is free today, that it’s nonmandatory to pay for it. But making the music is not a free process.” Of the fans who’ve already rallied to support his new album, he says, “It’s nice that fans don’t know where I’m going next, but they want to be there with me.”

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Spencer Day will be appearing for his third season at the Palm Cabaret in Puerto Vallarta with his all new holiday show of "Rebel Without a Claus" on December 14, 15 and 18 at 7:00 pm with performances on December 16 and 20 at 9:30 pm. Pick up your tickets at the Palm Box Office in Old Town Vallarta at Olas Altas 508 or purchase online at Vallarta Tickets.