BRITS Critics' Choice winner Florence Welch has promised to turn heads with her attire at the prestigious awards show.

The flamboyant singer with Florence And The Machine has warned she may wear pyjamas when she goes to collect her award, or something equally bizarre.

Speaking exclusively to The Record, the star also revealed she has largely ignored the accolades which have led to her being tipped to become one of the UK's biggest music stars in 2009.

She said of her award: "It has gone over my head a bit. I've been trying to concentrate on working - if I thought about it too much, I'd get freaked out.

"I'm excited and terrified at getting up to collect the award. I mean, who does that? It's the sort of thing you see on TV, you don't do it. It's like an alternate reality.

"I didn't even know I was nominated.

Nobody told me in case it freaked me out.

My manager called and told me I had won it. I screamed and fell on the floor.

"It's not something I thought would happen or something I could aspire to. It's never been one of my goals. I can't get my head around it.

"I'm thinking of wearing my pyjamas to the awards. I'll find something. I'll be the one in the teddy bear shirt and pants combo on the red carpet."

Florence insists her dress sense is likely to be just as crazy when she joins Glasvegas, Friendly Fires and White Lies at Glasgow's O2 Academy tonight and tomorrow night, as part of the Shockwaves NME Awards tour.

She said: "I'm looking forward to the gig in Glasgow. I played King Tut's the last time and it was fun.

"I've heard the Glasvegas album. My dad bought it and I had a listen. I thought it was really good.

"Of course, I'll be having a tipple in Glasgow. It's all blokes on the tour but I have two girls in my band, me and Caroline, the drummer from Glasvegas.  She is really nice.

"The show gets pretty theatrical. I don't know what costumes to wear. It's all going to get a bit weird on tour.

"We're just going to bring as many weird clothes as we can and I'll throw them on then throw myself onstage.

"There isn't any planning. You can't plan it because you don't know what's going to happen."

While Adele, last year's winner of the first ever Critics' Choice award was a protege of the Brits music school, Florence has taken a more circuitous route to get herself and her band noticed.

She said: "I think it will open doors to people who will look and hear the music.

"It could get me to a different demographic but I didn't go to Brits school or anything like that. I was young when I started writing songs.

"I wrote imaginary break-up songs before I had a boyfriend. I skipped the love bit and went straight to the sad break-up bit.

"The Rose was one of them. It would be desolate lyrics like, 'The last thing you gave me a rose and it's on the table but now it's dead.' Or I would write, 'All the raindrops fell from the trees and they were like diamonds but you were dead so it doesn't matter.'

"The songs were a bit morose. Even though I didn't have a boyfriend I was already imagining breaking up with him.

"I was in a band at school that we decided would be a musical collective, though that makes it sound weird like a cult thing. What is weird is that's what Florence And The Machine is like now, with lots of people coming in. I was in a punk band at school, too. I was the guitarist, even though I didn't have a guitar. My friend was the bassist and she didn't have a bass.

"We rehearsed in the drummer's dad's garage. I remember drawing the name on our schoolbooks. We were called The Toxic Cockroaches.

"I reckon we would get signed. Three girls and just a drummer."

Florence added: "I've never been to any sort of theatre training. I went to art college, which was amazing.

"I did Foundation Art and got in to do illustration. I did gigantic floral installations. One of them spelled out You're A T**t in giant letters like a wreath.

"I did it in a day, I felt like such an idiot. I thought I should just spell it out.

"I do stupid stuff. Everyone does sometimes I guess.

"I took a year out to see if the music thing was going to go anywhere, and now it has, I decided to throw myself into it.

"I love Bjork and Kate Bush. They are amazing. I didn't grow up listening to Bjork. When I came to making this record, Icame to Bjork and Kate Bush quite late.

Kate Bush maybe when I was 13.

"I was really into Billie Holliday and Nina Simone when I was young.

"My dad used to play me a lot of Love and the Incredible String Band and The Rolling Stones.

"Certain songs were always really inspiring to me. I remember being a kid listening to Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division and Sam Cook's A Change Is Gonna Come and Nina Simone's My Baby Just Cares for me.

"I always wanted to sing those songs.

They would touch me in a way that made me want to lie on the floor and cry or jump up in the air."

Meanwhile, Florence wants to make it clear that her recent single Kiss With A Fist is not to be taken literally. The lyrics include the lines, "A kick to the teeth is good for some, A kiss with a fist is better then none," which she insists have nothing to do with domestic violence.

"It's an imaginary relationship," she said. "I wrote it when I was very young. I was in love at the time and it was my first experience of love. You feel it with such intensity that it is physical.

"The lyrics are all metaphorical. It's all just talking about the pain of first love, not in a physical sense. It's like saying I want everything for you.

"It's like saying you want attention, even a destructive one. You want the relationship even if it is bad for you because you want to feel something. You hate each other and you love each other.

"I think I am in love at the moment. The teenage love is different.

"Everyone has ups and downs. I'll be in arelationship in a certain, dreamy way.

Then we'll break up and I'll be writing a bitter, honest song.

"I wrote one song after I broke up with someone about jumping out of a window. You move through different emotional landscapes."