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‘You should be partying when you write party music’: pop hedonists Confidence Man on their super-sweaty new album

They want to hurl cash over their audiences, fire lasers, and make pantomime horses sexy. But, the Australian band say, there’s a dark side to their DayGlo dance-pop

“Sugar wants to do a pantomime horse but there’s no way to do that in a hot way,” says frontwoman Janet Planet, talking through her bandmate’s plans to add more chaos to their already furiously fun live shows. Since then, every raucous festival set has won them new fans: even the most cynical, hardened “real music” nut would struggle not to be charmed by their irresistibly sugary Eurodance, or by Bones swinging Planet – often wearing a Madonna-style cone bra – over his shoulders. Literally: at one previous show, they wanted to shoot their entire fee over the crowd in cold, hard cash, in tribute to their spiritual godfathers the KLF burning a million quid.

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