What would happen if the words of one of Ireland’s greatest literary figures were merged with the music of one of the most legendary live bands in rock'n'roll?

The answer is An Appointment With Mr Yeats, a show fusing the poetic power of W.B. Yeats and the visceral music of The Waterboys.

Since setting The Stolen Child to music on their classic Fisherman’s Blues album, Waterboys’ singer Mike Scott has been quietly crafting a rich collection of songs utilising Yeats’ poems as lyrics.

A few were performed solo by Scott during the Yeats International Festival at the Abbey Theatre in the 1990s, but most have remained unheard, waiting for the moment when, in Scott’s words, 'I had enough songs to create a full programme and present it in a potent, radical fashion.'

The twenty Yeats poems in the programme span the poet’s humour from wry to romantic, rustic to mythological, and include famous and lesser-known works such as The Hosting Of The Shee, Mad As The Mist And Snow, Politics, The Song Of Wandering Aengus, News For The Delphic Oracle, An Irish Airman Foresees His Death and The Four Ages Of Man. The show will also include a selection of Waterboys favourites, specially chosen and rearranged for this context.