SLEEPER: Burn All the Negatives Back Cover (1995)
Burn All the Negatives

Are These The Most Iconic Female-Fronted Bands Of The 90s?
21 January 2018, 06:00

This week, we sadly lost Dolores O’Riordan, who fronted the much-loved Irish band The Cranberries. Let’s look back at some of the most iconic female musicians who also made their name in the 1990s.

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8. Sleeper

Louise Wener met Jon Stewart at Manchester University and briefly called themselves Surrender Dorothy before settling on Sleeper after the Woody Allen movie. A support slot for Blur in 1994 put them on the Bripop map, and their first two albums, Smart and The It Girl each made the Top 5. Wener’s wearing of a “Just Another Female Fronted Band” t-shirt ironically commented on features such as the one you're reading, but despite much music press coverage, the band called it a day in 1998. Wener became a successful author while Sleeper band reunited in 2017 for a series of dates.