VASSY x The Peppermint Club: A Sold-Out Return to Her Roots
- By: Ani Gutierrez | Photos: Golden RAYE
Multi-platinum artist VASSY traded festival stages for the intimacy of The Peppermint Club, captivating a sold-out house with jazz classics, heartfelt originals, and a full-circle ode to her musical journey.
Friday night at The Peppermint Club in West Hollywood unfolded with the intimacy of a velvet-lined rendezvous, as multi-platinum, award-winning Australian artist VASSY transformed a sold-out room into a private, mesmerizing evening of music.
VASSY’s voice led the night, as she took the audience on a journey of soulful nostalgia, personal roots, and renewed vulnerability. She wasn’t embodying the festival-stage bombshell or the global-hit EDM singer blasting through stadium speakers, but the artist returning to the songs that initially made her fall in love with music. Performing selections from BossAcoustics, she revisited her Bossa Nova, Latin jazz, and acoustic foundations through reimagined originals and select covers.
Bounded by dim amber lighting, plush booths, and the club’s signature bowls of peppermints, the evening radiated a kind of old-Hollywood decadence that made the air hum with anticipation. Opening acts Elia Berthoud and George Arvanitidis set the tone for the night with soulful sets that turned conversations into murmurs of admiration. Their voices danced around clinking glasses and low laughter, as their lively prelude to the night took stage before VASSY’s shift into something more intimate.
When VASSY slipped into the spotlight, the already-cozy venue drew even tighter with a shoulder-to-shoulder crowd of fans, friends, and nightlife insiders leaning in as if they knew they were witnessing something personal yet profoundly alive.
This night was a full-circle moment for VASSY, as she shared with LOOP in a post-show interview just how fulfilling it was to perform the very songs that initially inspired her to become a singer, like The Girl From Ipanema, Fly Me to the Moon, and Corcovado (Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars). “These are the songs that inspired me to start singing in the first place…it felt a little indulgent because I’m always singing EDM music, so it’s nice to actually just sing.”
These are the songs that inspired me to start singing in the first place…it felt a little indulgent because I’m always singing EDM music, so it’s nice to actually just sing.
Between songs, VASSY didn’t just sing, she shared stories, teased friends in the crowd, made jokes, and pulled names from the audience. The energy was playful, warm, and deeply personal. You could sense this was a community she’d created, not just a crowd she was performing to.
Drifting from jazz classics and Bossa Nova rhythms, to raw vocals and lyrical confessionals, her voice held the room in a spellbound hush. Then came her original song “Lost,” a tender ode to her husband. “Before I met him, I was lost in a way… It’s cheesy, but when you meet someone that completes you, like a soulmate, you just don’t feel lost anymore,” she told LOOP.
Just when it felt like the night would drift into ashes and memories, VASSY shifted the mood with her hit song, “Bad” with David Guetta. Drinks raised, voices rose, and the audience joined in on every wave of the chorus. The audience erupted, not just because they knew the hit, but because they’d just experienced a journey back to VASSY’s roots and forward to reinvention, all in one night.
Before I met him, I was lost in a way… It’s cheesy, but when you meet someone that completes you, like a soulmate, you just don’t feel lost anymore.
VASSY has long been one of dance music’s defining voices, with chart-topping hits, billions of streams, and becoming the first woman to win the EDMA ICON Award. Yet nights like this show what really drives her: roots, heart, and authenticity.
Performing at The Peppermint Club for the first time, VASSY felt proud to have had reclaimed a piece of her musical past, while still owning the present. “This is an iconic venue, so my team and I were really excited this show sold out.”
This is an iconic venue, so my team and I were really excited this show sold out.
Stepping back into the cool LA night, peppermints tucked into pockets and purses, guests seemed to carry a different kind of post-concert buzz; a rare energy that only comes from a night where the artist lets you in a little closer than you expected.
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