Suzie Stapleton is an Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist who resides in Brighton, UK. She has released two EPs and an album, "We Are The Plague' that combine alternative rock with gothic blues and dark folk. Stapleton has also performed on recordings with Lydia Lunch, Mark Lanegan, Cypress Grove and Crippled Black Phoenix. Background Stapleton was born and raised in Sydney, Australia. After dropping out of high school she studied audio engineering, became a club DJ, and worked as a radio host and voice-over artist. She also acted in various Australian television drama series and ABC Television productions In 2005 Stapleton moved to Melbourne and it was here that she began performing as a solo artist in 2007. This evolved into a full band line-up, with whom she recorded two critically acclaimed EPs. Relocating to the UK in 2015, Stapleton was initially based in London, where she recruited a new band featuring Gavin Jay on bass and Ian White on drums. During this time Stapleton also toured across the UK and Europe solo and supported artists such as Mark Lanegan, Mick Harvey and Jim Jones and The Righteous Mind. Reviewing her support slot for Mick Harvey in Glasgow, Louder Than War wrote: "It’s rare that a new artist comes along who genuinely defies easy description, but this is certainly the case with Stapleton. Her songs seem to inhabit the dark, intense corners of the soul in a manner not dissimilar to Nick Drake or even Elliott Smith, yet Stapleton’s guitar-playing is at once raw and tender, at times evoking the elemental spirit of Link Wray or ‘Sister’ era Sonic Youth... a bright new star in the ascendant". In 2019 Stapleton settled in Brighton, after spending time there writing her debut album and with a family connection to the area, her grandmother having been born in The Lanes in the 1920s. Releases 45 Revelations Per Minute - EP (2009) Stapleton recorded her first EP "45 Revelations Per Minute" in Melbourne, Australia. The EP includes performances by several notable guest musicians. Charlie Owen (The Divinyls, Beasts Of Bourbon) plays slide guitar on "Cut Away" and rhodes piano on ‘Asking', Johnny Nolan (The Powder Monkeys, Bored) plays lead guitar on "6ft Away", and bassist Shane Walsh (Tex, Don & Charlie) and drummer Ian Kitney (Temperance Union) play across the EP. Obladi Diablo - EP (2012) Stapleton’s second EP was released in 2012, with a