Hailing from the industrial city of Landskrona in southern Sweden - and driven by boredom, alienation and the frustration of living in a shithole town - Quit Your Dayjob are slowly conquering Europe with their wild electro surf punk and hysterical live shows. We caught up with singer Jonass just before the band set off on its inaugural US tour.

Your album - Sweden We Got A Problem - delivers 16 blistering tracks in under half-an-hour. What's the rush?

We're just allowing the eight-year-old in us to run free and reverting to the juvenile bastards we once were. Speed's always been the essence of rock'n'roll, and who are we to argue?

In recent years, Sweden has been a hotbed of rock talent. What makes QYD different?

If you're talking about bands like The Hives or The Hellacopters, they all have rich parents who buy them instruments, so we definitely can't be lumped in with the 'Swedish garage rock scene' or whatever it's called these days. QYD make real Swedish music. We make stupid music for stupid people.

So would you consider yourself ambassadors for your country?

Sweden is the Japan of Europe; a bunch of rich twats trying to be hip and duplicate the work of others. QYD's a solution for everyone who's sick of Sweden and Japan. So fuck being ambassadors! We're more like Baader Meinhof's Rote Armee Fraktion, only in music.

What inspired you to play a series of prison gigs?

Oh, that's been exaggerated. We only played one prison gig in Sweden. Have you ever seen a Swedish prison? They're a joke. We played for this rapist who was celebrating his 30th birthday, but we found the murderers made a better audience.

Jesus... Is the US ready for QYD?

People are mostly shit, that's no big secret. And the people who come to see QYD are beyond shit. So, no, I don't think the Yanks are quite ready for us.

*sweden we got a problem, OUT NOW, quityourdayjob.org