I think the rather eye-watering curiosity as to my sexual preferences... well, I wasn't expecting that! Not sexuality, you understand - that was understood - but my preferences within that sexuality framework.
The extended footage of Welsh in conversation is certainly engaging, as he discusses his writing and the movies it created, and his own youth in Edinburgh. Some of the rest of the interviewees aren't quite so gripping, however, and the film is padded out with a fair bit of redundant anecdotage from people on the subject of getting hilariously wasted in Irvine's company or at least his approximate vicinity.
Here at TONY, our goal has always been to guide readers toward the best that the city has to offer-and, more than that, to help them appreciate what makes those things the best. In the 22 years that I've been covering theater for Time Out, that guidance has taken ever-changing forms, and as we move into the new year, I am delighted to announce a new one.
Kicking off this UFC Shanghai edition of TTP is our interview with UFC lightweight, Gauge Young. Young talks about the awkward circumstances around his UFC debut. From fighting on short notice, to fighting a friend - he runs down the whole situation for us. Now with a full training camp, he's ready to show the UFC what he's really made of. He'll head to Shanghai for a date with Maheshate and he gives us a breakdown of that fight.
If Palmer is a unique talent on the pitch, he is unique to interview, as well. Short shrift is his default setting; plenty of his answers are monosyllabic, some just a sound hmmm.
Howerdel expressed his current writing process, stating, 'I'm in a not-sleeping-much and self-discovery mode. When I'm writing music, I've been full night-terror...'. This captures his intense creative phase.
"The interviews were pretty strange," Qureshi said on the podcast. "You'd be chatting about philosophy for an hour and a half and it would very much just be like he would pick a topic out of thin air."
