by tim_bell | Oct 31, 2013 | Latest News
The lately lamented Lou Reed is the songster of Perfect Day, on which Trainspotting the film pivots: it ruins the film and it makes it, depends how you are reading it. To play Perfect Day when a young man is in a dangerous overdose is perverse and cruel. That’s...
by tim_bell | Oct 12, 2013 | Latest News
My aim is to write a 70,000-word book. This follows that each section, or chapter, has an allocated percentage. Writing a potted history of Leith in 7,000 is a challenge. The aim is to demonstrate a) that Scotland is not England, and Leith is not Edinburgh, and b)...
by tim_bell | Sep 24, 2013 | Stop press
Visiting family in Uganda recently, I came across some Brits, one of them a Scot, and the conversation turned to Trainspotting, as it tends to in my company. Before we met again 10 days later they got a (pirate) copy of the film, and we had an earnest discussion about...
by tim_bell | Aug 22, 2013 | Latest News
On the second page of Trainspotting Welsh makes clear the relationship between Leith and Edinburgh. Renton and Sick Boy, desperate for a taxi at the Foot of Leith Walk to go and score with Johnny Swan in Tollcross, fulminate: ‘Supposed to be a rank… [all...
by tim_bell | Aug 18, 2013 | Latest News
The latest offering in book form on Irvine Welsh and the Trainspotting industry has just appeared. John Neil Munro’s Lust for Life hit the bookshops last week. Munro is a long-standing friend of Welsh, so it’s similar to Sandy Mcnair’s Carspotting....
