A busy year ahead for Hothouse Flowers

Hothouse Flowers launch into 2004 with the January 16 release of 'Your Love Goes On'.

Described by guitarist Fiachna O Braonain as "the most raw, soulful record we've ever done", it's the first track to be lifted from their provisionally titled Into Your Heart album which follows on February 6. Their first studio offering in five years, it's being released by independent Irish label Rubyworks.

Having shrugged off their St. Patrick's Day hangovers, the quartet head out on an Irish tour which takes them to the Black Box, Galway (March 18); Olympia, Dublin (20); UCH, Limerick (21); Forum, Waterford (26); and Opera House, Cork (27).

More immediately, this weekend finds the Flowers shooting a video for 'Your Love Goes On' in the Ivy Gardens with In America star Sarah James.