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Posh Welshie cannae dae the voices nae mair
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THEY'LL be going radge in Leith. Irvine Welsh, the cult author who
made his name as the authentic voice of a drug-addled generation, has
admitted losing his grasp of the Scottish dialect that put him on the
literary map.
After almost a decade of the high life in upmarket areas of London
and Amsterdam following the runaway success of Trainspotting, Welsh
has confessed he had to re-read his own work to recapture the sound
of the mean Edinburgh city streets where he grew up.
Last ...
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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Pornspotting; Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh explains why he has got Begbie, Sick Boy and the gang back together in a new story inspired by the current boom in pornography.(Features)
The Mirror (London, England)
; Byline: HENRY SUTTON PORNOGRAPHY is the new drug of the moment, according to controversial best-selling Scottish novelist Irvine Welsh. What's more, he maintains it has become so much a part of our culture, our everyday lives, that it no longer shocks. It's like eating McDonald's, Welsh says.
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Welsh catches up with the women of 'Trainspotting' ; HOME
The Independent - London
; It is more than a decade since Irvine Welsh's debut novel, about a gang of young men who take heroin to escape the banality of modern life, enthralled a generation of disaffected youth. Now the Scottish writer, still best known for the seminal work Trainspotting, has turned his attention to the
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Welsh catches up with the women of 'Trainspotting'
Belfast Telegraph
; It is more than a decade since Irvine Welsh's debut novel, about a gang of young men who take heroin to escape the banality of modern life, enthralled a generation of disaffected youth. Now the Scottish writer, still best known for the seminal work Trainspotting, has turned his attention to the
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 "Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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RETURN TICKET; He's done the drugs scene, now Welsh is Trainspotting again ... this time it's porn.(Features)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
; Byline: VICKY SPAVIN THE low-life junkies who made author Irvine Welsh famous are to be brought back to life - and they will swap one X-certificate lifestyle for another. The heroin-fuelled escapades of Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and psychotic Begbie captivated the world when Welsh's book,
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Is it ecstasy, or existentialism? (reviews of Irvine Welsh's books, 'Trainspotting' and 'Ecstasy' find common theme of disaffected youth which previously succeeded in 'Less than Zero' (Bret Easton Ellis) and 'Bright Lights Big City' (Jay McInerney))
Insight on the News
; In the mid-eighties we had Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis' drug-steeped, alcohol-soaked, sex-saturated saga of disaffected youth set in Los Angeles, and Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney's East Coast version of the same. With attitudes that fluctuated between boastful self-regard and whinny
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 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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Trainspotting, part II.(Review)
The Evening Standard (London, England)
; ... exaeratedwater-salesman Juice Terry Lawson, jostle for a piece of the porno pie. For a wee while life starts looking up, but Leith ain't London and news of the team's back street/back passage endeavours soon reaches Frank Begbie, psycho-bruiser and one-man Dark Night of the Soul ...
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Trainspotting, part II
Evening Standard - London
; ... Juice" Terry Lawson, jostle for a piece of the porno pie. For a wee while life starts looking up, but Leith ain't London and news of the team's back street/back passage endeavours soon reaches Frank Begbie, psycho-bruiser and one-man Dark Night of the Soul ...
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Reviews:Trainspotting:East is East:The violence and vitriol of our disenfranchised youth
The Scotsman
; TRAINSPOTTING, KING'S THEATRE, EDINBURGH EAST IS EAST, DUNDEE REP THERE are stories that imitate the surface of reality, in all its ordinariness and complexity. And then there are stories of a different order, stories that adopt a style, a tone, a vision so extreme, and so complete in itself,
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We asked for your opinions on the author of `Trainspotting'
The Independent - London
; Drugs and the drug world are incapable of supporting Welsh's ambitions, hence his need to create ever more desperate and implausible horror scenarios, inflating this currency and devaluing its impact. Too many shortcuts are taken and his writing is now seriously repetitious (although this is
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Chips are everything Interview The drug-fuelled author of Trainspotting is now writing about Scotland's passion for deep-fried food and fish shops. Whatever's happened to Irvine Welsh?
The Sunday Telegraph London
; Irvine Welsh has been described as "the king of British youth culture" - a title which owes as much to his outlandish behaviour as it does to his fiction. Besides writing about drugs (most famously in Trainspotting, his 1993 novel set on the bleakest housing estates in Edinburgh and translated into
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