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fromTime Out London
6 days ago

A musical version of 'Trainspotting' is coming to London's West End this summer

Irvine Welsh is adapting his novel Trainspotting into a musical, expanding the story with new characters and original songs.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days ago

It's got real sass!' Irvine Welsh chooses new life for Trainspotting as a stage musical

Trainspotting is being adapted into a musical, featuring original songs and selections from the film's soundtrack, opening in London in July.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Beyond Trainspotting: The World of Irvine Welsh review uniquely funny writer holds court

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.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
7 months ago

Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough review a candid portrait of a literary one-off

Irvine Welsh remains a vigorous, unrepentant, sports-loving, globe-trotting writer whose life includes past drug use, passionate music and athletic pursuits.
fromIndependent
9 months ago

Irvine Welsh on his Trainspotting sequel: 'It is that time of life when they are getting serious about romance.?It is an interesting time in the lives of men'

In 2020, he tweeted of Donald Trump: "Has that tedious fat sex pest f**ked off yet?"
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