The club and theatre tour will have the lads trekking through 12 cities starting May 3 in Boston. They’ll stop in major markets, including Philadelphia, New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles before winding down May 20 in San Francisco.

The group started out as a street-performance act called the Incomparable Benzini Brothers, playing traditional Irish tunes in their hometown of Dublin. After winning a local contest, the band changed its name, and U2 frontman Bono saw the newly-dubbed Hothouse Flowers on a late-night TV show and offered his considerable assistance.

The band worked past their scruffy roots and eventually earned U.S. cult-fave status with their 1988 debut, People, and follow-ups Home and Songs From The Rain.

Despite moderate success, however, the Flowers went quiet after 1993 when the members moved on to other projects.

After a five-year hiatus, the band regrouped and released an album, Born, in 1998 and opened some European dates for the Rolling Stones on their marathon Bridges To Babylon tour.

More recently, Hothouse Flowers released a greatest-hits package in 2000.