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Suzie Stapleton is an Australian-born, UK-based alternative rock artist. She is known for electric live performances and guitar-driven noir soundscapes that cross into gothic-blues and alt-folk. Her unusual vocal style, unique guitar playing, and poetic leanings have drawn diverse comparisons including Cat Power, Patti Smith, Tom Waits, and Chelsea Wolfe. Over the past two years, Stapleton has independently released a string of singles gaining airplay on BBC Radio 6 Music in the UK and ABC and Double J in Australia. Stapleton has opened for artists such as Mark Lanegan and Mick Harvey, and appeared at festivals including Colours of Ostrava, Liverpool Sound City, Camden Rocks Festival, and Binic Folk Blues Festival. Stapleton’s highly anticipated debut album ‘We Are The Plague’ is out July 31st, 2020 on her own label Negative Prophet Records. Stapleton self-produced the record which was mixed by Dan Cox (Thurston Moore/Laura Marling). Stapleton’s band includes Gavin Jay (Jim Jones & The Righteous Mind) on bass, and Jim Macaulay (The Stranglers) on drums. When they made their live debut at London’s Servant Jazz Quarters in 2018 Louder Than War touted it as “An unmissable opportunity to see one of the most exciting emerging talents before she hits the big time”. Stapleton’s other recording projects include The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project (Iggy Pop, Debbie Harry, Nick Cave, and others) on which she performed vocals, and guest vocals on two records with Lydia Lunch and & Cypress Grove. She also recently recorded with Crippled Black Phoenix performing guitar and vocals on a soon to be released EP. “You’d need to bandy around names such as Thurston Moore, PJ Harvey, Mark Lanegan… People would get the general idea – yet would still come nowhere close. What she actually sounds like – is Suzie Stapleton. The emerging new wave of assertive and gifted artists urgently needed and one of the few bright spots in an otherwise ever more worrying world." - Tom Robinson, BBC “Suzie has toured with Mick Harvey and Mark Lanegan and, on this brief evidence, it won't be long before they're opening for her.”  - Uber Rock UK "This is a lady that is simply too good to be ignored.   Suzie Stapleton is gonna be huge. You heard it here first...” - Louder Than War