Don’t go, they said. but they didn’t follow their own advice. Now, after much professional and personal upheaval, the Hothouse Flowers are back, once more in love with the idea of “ringin’ the bell”.
"We were having sort of ‘light crack’ together, but...
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The Dublin band have just announced their first show in the city for over two years...
Read More The Hothouse Flowers and members of Kila will be among those playing a charity tribute in memory of the late roadie Frank 'White Stallion' Murray.
Read More The music lineup for the Féile An Phobail, West Belfast has been confirmed.
Read More The line-up for the Lark In The Park open-air concert, which takes place on August 1, has been confirmed.
Read More Hothouse Flowers are "still very much together" according to an official statement
Read More A host of Irish talent will come together on June 30 for a worthwhile fund-raising event in Navan
Read More Liam O Maonlai is a founder member and lead singer with the Hothouse Flowers whose fifth studio album, Into Your Heart has just been released. Along with the band’s guitarist Fiachna O Braonain, O Maonlai was one of the first of a new generation of Irish speakers to use the language widely, both at home and abroad.
Read More Hothouse Flowers will be celebrating Paddy's Day with an instore performance at HMV Oxford St.
Read More Now with a ‘Best Of’ compilation under their belts and following the slightly experimental slant of their 1998 comeback Born, this fifth studio album sees the Flowers return with what they claim is their most raw and soulful collection to date.
Read More To launch their new single 'Your Love Goes On', the Hothouse Flowers will return to their early days of busking in the city, with a lunchtime gig on Friday January 16 on Grafton Street, Dublin.
Read More In conjunction with their new album released in February, Hothouse Flowers will play a series of dates around the country
Read More From their earliest days busking in Grafton Street as The Benzini Brothers, to their most recent incarnation as a trio, there has always been a freshness about the Hothouse Flowers and their material.
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It is, of course, exceedingly easy to ridicule the Flowers. Hardly Irish modernists they've often come across as dream-dazed in their Celtic haze, a band whose emotions have outstripped their creative sense and whose neo-hippie leanings actually owe less to Timothy Leary, San Francisco et al than to the juvenilia of the early Yeats before he most belatedly lost both his virginity and feyness at 29.
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