Diana Gomez

The sugary alt-pop quintet Those Dancing Days, an all-female band hailing from Stockholm, Sweden, named themselves after Led Zeppelin's "Dancing Days" and formed four years ago while in high school. The cute quintet--Cissi Efraimsson (drums) Rebecka Rolfart (guitar), Lisa Pyk Wirstrom (keybords), Mimmi Evrell (bass), and singer Linnea Jonsson-- are already something close to stars in their native country, and prime candidates for an Urban Outfitters catalog stateside, if anyone here actually knew about them. The band is in town right now, remedying our ignorance: During their first New York at Mercury Lounge, on Tuesday, Rolfart suffered an instrument malfunction when her "guitar broke." After a drum solo and Jonsson's cry for help--"is there a guitar doctor?"--the band continued on, playing songs from their debut, In Our Space Hero Suits, which came out last year on Wichita Recordings. At Mercury, they had grown, bearded men dancing. Jonsson took a time out on the eve of New York show number two--at Union Hall tonight--to discuss the band's new existence as a touring outfit, the obstacles of the life on the road, and what's it's like to be underage in rock clubs from coast to coast.