Those Dancing Days had planned to release their debut album last month, but found songwriting took them longer than expected due to two of the band still being at school. Singer Linnea and bassist Mimmi finally graduated last week.

"They were very happy. Mimmi had a little party at her house, so we were there, celebrating with them," says keyboard player Lisa Pyk, whose Hammond organ drives the band's bubblegum indie-pop sound.

"The three of us who had already graduated were also very happy, because we were like, Now we can play more music and you don't have to study any more.'"

The Swedish quintet's rise has still been rapid. They signed to Wichita, home to their compatriots Peter Bjorn and John, after releasing just one EP in their homeland.

All the members are still in their teens and live with their parents. They hadn't played a gig outside of Sweden until the end of last year and tonight marks the start of their first UK tour.

"The album is on its way. We have recorded most of the tracks but we have to put on some percussion and vocals," says Lisa. "Recording needs to be finished by the end of the month and it will come out in October.

"It's not one person who writes all the songs. It's like everyone can come along when we rehearse and say, Oh, I've written something new, let's work on this.' I think it's good because the songs become more varied."

She says the band have forsaken the trashy throwaway tracks which bulked out their first EP, such as Discho ("I just wanna disco, make the whole audience start to twisto") and Tasty Boy ("You're crispy like a cheese doodle"), in favour of the more sophisticated style of second single Hitten. The title of the latter translates into English as "The Hit".

"It's not a joke, but we when were recording our demo, we didn't have a title for it," Lisa explains. "We thought it had the most hit quality' of any of our songs. So we decided to call it Hitten and come up with another name later.

"But when we put our tracks up on MySpace, suddenly lots of people were listening to our music and it was too late. Some people seem to think it's about hitting someone, which is weird."

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