Mike Scott of the Waterboys and Yeats poetry

Mike Scott came into studio today, to talk about An Appointment with Mr Yeats. That's his show with the Waterboys performing twenty of Yeats' poems, all put to song by Scott.

Now based in Ireland the Waterboys front man is pretty passionate about Yeats. So much so that even he said he should get out more. Sitting at his piano with his Complete Yeats finding the poems that sing off the page to him. It's kind of the true artist's pose.

The thing is he wears his passion lightly. And he is so genuine about his fascination with Yeats that it doesn't for a moment feel contrived.

It's how popstars should be. Forget throwing tvs out the window. Arise and go now and get your collected edition of Yeats and lose yourself in The Lake Isle of Innisfree.

The Waterboys perform An Appointment with Mr Yeats in the Grand Opera House in Belfast on the 9th and 10th November. 

And check out what Mike thought of his day in Belfast today on his Twitter feed .