I’m doing 33 festivals this year. I’m not really a festival person — I haven’t got much experience of them, but then I counted them up. So far, I’ve done SXSW, which is kind of one, and that was great. Maybe because I’m quite a girlie girl, I didn’t really do the whole “watching Rage Against the Machine at Leeds when I was 14” thing. Obviously, though, now that I have to do them — and I don’t have to stay in a horrible tent and stuff — I’m excited. There are so many places we’re going to, in the UK, in Europe, even Summer Sonic, in Japan.

It’s a different experience if you’re in a band and you’re only there for a day. Glastonbury last year was the first time I’d stayed for a whole one. It felt like a real survival test, and by the end, you’d enjoyed it more, because it felt like you’d earned it. I did try to get into the festival vibe at Secret Garden last year, but I don’t know — maybe it’s because I don’t do drugs, and some of the wackier festivals seem designed for you to have a big trip-out all night long. I think I’d only camped once before last summer in my entire life, and I spent the whole time awake, petrified that sheep would be attacking me.

I also performed at Creamfields last year. That was amazing, completely northern in a way — I’m from Blackpool, so I totally got it. There’s people dressed up to the nines in neon, furry miniskirts, and it’s pissing it down with rain and they don’t give a shit. Everyone’s just up for having an amazing time, and not caring that they’re in Warrington in the rain — instead, it’s just, “Let’s put our hands up and have a rave!” The crowd there are really good fun. I can be a bit of an Ebenezer, but you can’t deny that there’s something magical about it.

For my set this year, we’ve done some extended rave edits of some of the songs, with some ridiculous, epic breakdowns. We’ve played quite a lot of club gigs, so there’s already a dancey element to a lot of the songs. I could do acoustic, low-key versions, like on my YouTube videos, but I think that for festivals you mainly just need that big sound. At SXSW, there were a lot of indie bands playing, and it all got quite similar.

We had people coming up to us, saying, “Thank you so much for bringing the fun and colour back to all of this!”

I’m having quite a few costumes made by new designers. One is made of giant sequins, so if you spread your wings out, you look like a giant sequined bird. There’s one that is a sort of massive gold bird’s nest. Then I’m getting a Barbarella-inspired costume made for Bestival, because it has a space theme this year.

I’m trying to get a giant Tenori-On built for the back of the stage, so that when I play my mini one, it will react on the giant one as well. We’ve also put in an order for some fibreglass wolves from America, one to go on each side of the stage, with lasers in their eyes. We’d have this intro music that would be wolf howls and synth noises — so the ideal would be to have smoke coming out of their mouths, and lasers in their eyes, and there’d be darkness, then the howls would start...

Essentially, I’ve just based my live set on David Bowie’s Glass Spider tour. The inspiration is pretty much that and Kate Bush’s Tour of Life. But I don’t know which of these grand plans will work out. You can imagine what it’s like going up to your record label and saying, “Hi, can I have a grand for some fibreglass wolves from America, please?” But live shows should be visual and exciting.

I want this to be about musicianship, which is why I think the giant Tenori-On will be good — you can see the sound being made. One of my ultimate aims is to make a laser harp, like Jean Michel Jarre’s... so actually the live show, in my dreams, is a mix of the Glass Spider tour and Jean Michel Jarre. Apparently, there are YouTube videos of how you can make the laser harp using a Wii controller. But you’d probably need two days and a lot of time and breeziness to do that kind of thing.

In terms of seeing bands, I really want to stay at Glastonbury to see Blur. Heartbreak are always good, and I think the Big Pink are going to be a big festival band. I heard that Fleetwood Mac would be playing somewhere — I think it’s just a vicious rumour, but that would be amazing. The Human League and Kraftwerk will be great too, obviously.

I really want a wigwam or a tepee. We met a guy staying in a wigwam last year and we asked, “Do you live here all year?” He said, “No, don’t be silly, I live in a wigwam village in Wales” — like that’s much more normal! But I’d quite like one for a few days. I think my mum and dad want to come to Glastonbury, which will be quite an experience. Plus I’ve got three little brothers, and they want tickets for everything, so there’ll be quite a lot of fighting going on. I’ve said to all my friends that I’d get them tickets for one festival, and they could all come to that one.

It’s going to be a learning curve, from big ones like Great Escape to Glastonbury to Summer Sonic, then Latitude and Bestival, which are more boutiquey, and Leeds is more commercial... So we can appeal to loads of different crowds. Festivals will take up my whole summer — but great, what a way to spend it! It’s kind of good. You end up having more days off than normal, as you can’t really do much from Monday to Wednesday. You just get to recover and do it all again. Actually, it should be a pretty chilled summer.

Little Boots was talking to Louis Wise

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