Here's one for you: Kevin Shields, frontman of iconic shoegazers My Bloody Valentine, has suggested that the massive success of Britpop in the 90's was the result of a government conspiracy.

Speaking to the Guardian, Shields said that the rise of bands like Pulp, Oasis and Blur was coincided by the rise of Tony Blair's Labour Party and the latter attempted to latch on to the musical movement.

"Britpop was massively pushed by the government. Someday it would be interesting to read all the MI5 files on Britpop. The wool was pulled right over everyone's eyes there", Shields said.

In the same interview, Shields also says that a lot of his memories from the 90's are "very hazy and jumbled up" doe to the amount of drugs he was taking and, with that in mind, perhaps the above statement makes a lot more sense.

That, or Tony Blair just loved 'Country House'.