Swedish-American indie duo Dag för Dag have been forced to cancel their previously reported gigs in the UK this week because the female half of the brother/sister set up, Sarah Snavely suffered a slight fall at a gig in Sweden last week. Normally you'd be forgiven for telling Snavely that the "show must go on" and to just get up and get on with it, but if you did you'd feel like an inconsiderate fool once you realised that Sarah is eight months pregnant. 

Snaveley told CMU: "It caused quite a fright. My body has grown so much over the past couple weeks and I've been caught totally off guard by the way I feel - both physically and emotionally. So out of safety for me and the mini guy still growing in the belly, I've decided to spend the next seven weeks at home".

The duo hope to return to the UK in July and August once Sarah has recovered from that child birth ordeal thing. Their debut album was released two weeks ago by Cargo Records.

Formed in 2007, Dag för Dag are a Swedish-American indie band based in Stockholm, with the core being brother and sister duo Sarah and Jacob Snavely. The band first toured in 2008 with The Shout Out Louds, and have since gone on to support The Kills, Wolf Parade, Lykke Li, Handsome Furs, Wintersleep and Cursive. They released their debut EP 'Shooting From The Shadows' last summer via Saddle Creek Europe, and their debut album, 'Boo', came out last month on Cargo Records.

Ahead of a gig at The Garage in London on 8 Mar, Sarah told us how she and her sibling work together: "Most happens in our rehearsal space. In general, one of us starts playing something and the other joins in, while we each write our own lyrics quite separately from one another. We are always amazed that they work when we put them together! We have quite specific rhythmical ideas, and direct the drummer initially, but definitely do allow him to write his own parts once the basic structure of the song has been established by us two. Songwriting is fortunately a rather effortless process for Jacob and me together... some sort of sibling witchcraft must certainly be involved".

You can read the full SSQ interview with Sarah here

Swedish siblings Dag för Dag will be in the UK this week and next for a handful of UK shows ahead of the release of their debut album, 'Boo', on 22 Feb.

Listen to and download a track from the album, 'Hands And Knees', here: www.dagfordag.com/handsandknees/

Tour dates:

31 Jan: London, Old Blue Last
1 Feb: London, Pure Groove in-store
1 Feb: London, Barfly
2 Feb: Manchester, Deaf Institute