The duo – keyboardist/programmer Vince Clarke and singer Andy Bell – will get the ball rolling February 24 in Belfast. They have a month’s worth of dates scheduled in Ireland and the U.K., after which they’ll hit up Denmark and Germany before crossing the Atlantic.

The U.S. leg begins April 14 and includes five nights in New York City, two in Washington, D.C., and three each in Hollywood and San Francisco. The duo will play six other cities on the jaunt, including Las Vegas, where they’ll close out the trek May 27.

The tour will mark the duo’s first shows since Bell revealed in December that he is HIV positive. He has known since 1998 that he had the virus that causes AIDS.

“I have been taking combination therapy and I am feeling fine – in fact, I have never felt better,” Bell said. “Being HIV positive does not mean that you have AIDS. My life expectancy should be the same as anyone else’s so there is no need to panic.”

Nightbird comes out January 25 on Mute. It’s Erasure’s 10th studio album and their first since 2000’s Loveboat, not counting the 2003 covers collection Other People’s Songs.

The group last visited North America in early 2003.