There's The Hives, The Cardigans, The Concretes, Peter, Björn & John and The Raveonettes.

This Stockholm-based five-piece fully deserve to be mentioned in the same league.

Following their fine debut album Howl Howl Gaff Gaff two years ago, the band have built up their own fanbase as well as supporting the likes of The Strokes, Kings Of Leon and Magic Numbers.

Now touring to promote their stunning new album Our Ill Wills, they are set to make people sit up and listen, especially if their excellent new single Tonight I Have To Leave It gets the airplay it deserves.

Our Ill Wills is the most melodic collection of songs I've heard since last year's brilliant Free School Milk by Tiny Dancers.

Vocalist Adam Olenius sounds like Robert Smith of The Cure, whose influence is heard throughout their songs, although the sound is most definitely of the present.

A criticism of the album is that it is over-produced, too slick. Live, however, they have an edge that is exciting.

Opening up with new song South America, the 12-number set included older tracks like The Comeback, Shut Your Eyes and an excellent rendition of Very Loud, which also featured The Clash's Train In Vain.

Although a relatively small audience of around 150 braved the wet evening they were hugely appreciative.

The two encores, Please, Please, Please and Hard Rain, were appropriate.

The band were so good that the audience requested they make a hurried return to Tyneside before going out happy into the damp, Newcastle streets.