Prior to London, the show visits Beacon Arts Centre in Greenock on 13th September, King’s Theatre in Glasgow on 15th-16th September, then visits three Northwest venues, Liverpool Olympia on 5th October, Crewe Lyceum on 6th October and Sale Waterside (Manchester) on 7th October. In Filth, his protagonist is the filthiest of police officers; Marabou Stork Nightmares is about a man in a coma who was sexually abused by his uncle; A Decent Ride features an oversexed cabbie; Bedroom Secrets Of The Masterchefs is about a hard-drinking football hooligan; and on it goes. His other notable works include Marabou Stork Nightmares, Filth, Skagboys (a prequel to Trainspotting), and The Blade Artist.

For all that the characters of Trainspotting lurked on the perilous fringes, they were at least young enough for the slogan “choose life” to be an option. I’ve been DJing again compulsively this year and it’s just DJs talking about how they got into the business. Like Edinburgh, London has changed a good deal over the decades, and this pub is as gastro as it gets. In particular Heather as the housewife battling constant belittlement and her push to break out of a life of boredom. Danny 'Spud' Murphy has been regularly attending group sessions in an attempt to kick his drug habit.Rab Birrell - brother of Billy Birrell and a college mate of Nikki also on her Film Studies course - and fuels the idea of exploiting the girls from Terry's pub, and Nikki's knowledge of film and pornography. The stories are much more loosely packed and episodic than that would suggest, which is part of what I love about Welsh so much: the punch, gutterfuck, quality of his mad-dash, almost ADHD storytelling. And while Begbie is a renowned artist seeking sun and sanctuary in Los Angeles, Welsh is a renowned artist seeking sun and sanctuary in Miami. As the two converse, Sick Boy considers the merciless trait of opportunity and threat accompanying Begbie's release. In 2001 he directed a 15-minute film for Gene's song "Is It Over" which is taken from the album Libertine.

If you’re forcing people to look at potentially intolerable material, you have to give them space to reset; you can show as much darkness as possible as long as you’re groping in some ways for the light switch. Given as a series of linked short stories, the book is also interspersed with brief commentaries on contemporary British politics. Unlike many addicts, he says, he was not self-medicating to escape the horrors of life; for him, heroin was purely hedonistic.Although Ecstasy gives us (amongst other things) Austen-esque pornography, beastiality, necrophilia, deformity, and child dismemberment, we end on an ecstasy high of two people falling in love.

I thought if I could get it done in time, the show’s second season could be based on The Long Knives instead and it is.Ces "contes de la folie ordinaire" pour une fin de siècle conjuguent plusieurs sortes d'addiction : l'amour, la vengeance, la drogue. The book describes the characters of Trainspotting ten years after the events of the earlier book, as their paths cross again, this time with the pornography business as the backdrop rather than heroin use (although numerous drugs, particularly cocaine, are mentioned throughout). He received a series of rapid promotions to end up as head of training at the economic development department.

Sam Leith, writing in the Financial Times, argues that: "Welsh's concerns are with sin and salvation, with the exercise of free will and with the individual soul. Welsh spoke as shooting was about to begin on its television adaptation; other business in hand included Trainspotting’s forthcoming debut as a West End musical, two separate documentaries about his life (“like buses, you know”), a recently launched record label and getting married for a third time. I don’t always take time to think about the stylisation and literary value, I just think, on to the next story.As a big fan of the rave culture the many references to clubbing and partying had me fantasising of being a part of the times.