"No one would reject the title of national treasure more fiercely, but more good-humouredly, than Irvine Welsh. The brilliant Scottish writer and creator of Trainspotting takes centre-stage in Paul Sng's documentary with just the same unassumingly athletic ease as in all of his other public appearances. For someone who has done as much drink and drugs and as many late nights as Welsh, he looks very good."
"Like many other articles or documentaries about Welsh, this one shows us how he is an inveterate traveller and globetrotter, unselfconsciously having fun in LA and on the international literary festival circuit. It also shows us he is someone who has a passionate love of music and sports, which he quite genuinely regards as equal in his affections to literature."
Irvine Welsh rejects the title of national treasure with fierce, good-humoured ease and appears unassuming and athletic despite a history of heavy drinking and drug use. Childhood in 1960s Leith and Muirhouse preceded a spell in London and a return to Edinburgh in the 1980s, where he studied at Heriot-Watt and worked for the council while beginning to write. He travels widely, enjoying LA and international literary festivals. He has a passionate love of music and sports equal to literature, shown through impressive football and Florida boxing training. He is married to Emma Currie and remains unrepentant about past drug use; street drugs seem largely past, though current use is ambiguous. A notable sequence shows a supervised DMT session in a Toronto clinic.
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