Stuart A. Staples
{{Short description|English musician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}
{{Use British English|date=September 2016}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Stuart A. Staples
| birth_name = Stuart Ashton Staples
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|14 November 1965|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Basford, Nottinghamshire, EnglandMcKibbin, Tony (2009) "[http://www.list.co.uk/article/18793-profile-stuart-staples-tindersticks/ Profile – Stuart Staples (Tindersticks)]", The List, 9 July 2009, retrieved 2011-01-21
| background = 1
| genre = Indie rock
| image = Tindersticks at Openluchttheater Rivierenhof (3679144207).jpg
| caption = Staples in 2009
}}
Stuart Ashton Staples (born 14 November 1965) is an English musician best known as the lead singer of indie band Tindersticks, in which he also plays guitar. Staples is noted for his crooning vocal style and a bass, nasal voice.
Biography
Prior to co-founding Tindersticks, Staples played in a band called Asphalt Ribbons, whose final line-up was nearly identical to that of his later band.Strong, Martin C. (2003) The Great Indie Discography, Canongate, {{ISBN|1-84195-335-0}}, pp. 1030–31 He has released two solo albums: Lucky Dog Recordings 03-04 and Leaving Songs.
Staples is also active as a film composer. He has provided the soundtrack to many of Claire Denis's films, including L'Intrus (2004),Sutton, Michael "[https://www.allmusic.com/artist/stuart-staples-p433389/biography Stuart Staples Biography]", Allmusic, retrieved 2011-01-21Holden, Stephen (2005) "[https://movies.nytimes.com/2005/12/23/movies/23intr.html?_r=1 MOVIE REVIEW: The Intruder (2004) – An Inscrutable Traveler Embarks on a Staggered Path of Recollections]", The New York Times, 23 December 2005, retrieved 2011-01-21 White Material (2009),{{cite web| url = https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117940964/| title = White Material| author = Weissberg, Jay| date = 6 September 2009| accessdate = 21 November 2011| publisher = variety.com}} and High Life (2018). Tindersticks had previously recorded the music to two other Denis films, Nénette et Boni and Trouble Every Day. In 2007 Staples collaborated with David Boulter on the soundtrack to Tot Ziens! (We'll meet Again), a short by Belgian director Klaus Verscheure, and he also provided the music for the 2019 film Vers la bataille, the fourth film by Aurélien Vernhes-Lermusiaux.
In 2017, the British Film Institute released Minute Bodies, a film he directed and scored with Christine Ott and Thomas Belhom of films by the naturalist F. Percy Smith.{{Cite web|url=http://scienceandfilm.org/articles/2920/minute-bodies-exclusive-interview-with-stuart-staples|title=Interview with Stuart Staples on Minute Bodies|last=Epstein|first=Sonia|date=13 June 2017|website=Sloan Science & Film}}
Solo discography
=Albums=
- Lucky Dog Recordings 03-04 (2005), Beggars Banquet
- Leaving Songs (2006), Beggars Banquet
- Songs for the Young at Heart (2007, with Dave Boulter)
- Arrhythmia (2018)
References
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Category:English rock guitarists
Category:English film score composers
Category:English male film score composers
Category:Musicians from Nottingham
Category:English male guitarists
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