Neneh Cherry & The Daughters of The Wild Bunch
I got into trip hop by accident. Brought up on Britpop, I'd never heard any until I randomly won Time Out's Best Albums of The 90s competition which included Massive Attack's 1991 classic Blue Lines . Having belatedly thought I'd 'got it', I recently decided to explore it again to actually understand what happened and what I hadn't envisaged was just how vital a role women played in its creation and so to celebrate Mother's Day and International Women's Day (belatedly in true Bristolian fashion!), I'm going to showcase what Neneh Cherry and the ladies that followed did for the most exciting musical development to come out of Britain in the nineties. A long time ago in a galaxy far far away... existed The Wild Bunch, Bristol's most pivotal music group or rather posse - in the hip hop sense - were formed by (above from left) Grant Marshall (now Massive Attack's Daddy G), rapper Willy Wee, Nellee Hooper and DJ Milo Johnson, after being in...