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Toronto - Set against the backdrop of the Edinburgh rave scene, Ecstasy tells the story of aging clubber Lloyd (Adam Sinclair) and his growing romance with Heather (Kristin Kreuk). It's an entertaining story and the cast is all pretty solid, but I do have to say that it was a little odd for me to see the Canadian actors in the cast all putting on Scottish accents. Not that they were bad accents, but it is a little weird nonetheless. In fact, one of the few not speaking with an accent was Kreuk, whose character was Canadian. I don't [...]

John Digweed certainly needs no introduction to readers of Big Shot . The venerable British DJ and proprietor of Bedrock Records was in New York City last week for a gig at Provocateur, and he sat down for a chat about his brand-new and rather flawless triple-disc Structures Two release. Diggers, who once did a memorable cameo in the film Groove , also revealed that he appears in a scene in the upcoming film adaptation of Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy . "I was DJing in Scotland, and [...]

One of the most disturbing and interesting movies in history is about to get a part 2. Oscar award winning Director Danny Boyle recently told Cinematical that a sequel to the 1996 hit film Trainspotting is inevitable. The Irvine Welsh novel originally published in 1993, depicts life in Edinburgh through the eyes of character Mark Renton - A heroin addict. Despite its gruesome visuals, the film adaptation was a huge success pulling in [...]

Shouting Lager! Lager! Lager! Wow, has it really been almost 15 years since Trainspotting came out? To which I've got yet another one of my ridiculous anecdotes. There are a few people/celebrities on the earth that I see repeatedly, no matter when or where I am on this globe. One of which is happens to be Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh. I've bumped into him in New York, London, Los Angeles but I first met him at, of all places, the Edinburgh Castle In San Francisco. The movie had just been released in [...]

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Vic Godard is an unassuming postman by day, cult hero by night, and now writer of show tunes with Irvine Welsh . Blackpool is the title song from a production that apparently didn't go over too well in the limited run it had in Edinburgh back in 2002. Nevertheless, Godard didn't want the songs he wrote for the production to be forgotten, and has seen fit to release a four song EP called Blackpool. They were all co-written with Irvin Welsh. The title song has a carnival, Bert the Chimney Sweep, Dent May [...]

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This week in Scottish Entertainment / Actor News, Henry Ian Cusick (Desmond) talks about the Lost finale, news on Irvine Welsh's 'Magnificent Eleven', photos of John Barrowman in 'Housewives and new interviews with Kevin McKidd, Douglas Henshall and Ewan McGregor. Henry Ian Cusick discuses Lost's series finale Excerpts from two new interviews with Henry Ian Cusick are [...]

'The best book ever written by man or woman…it deserves to sell more copies that the Bible.' Rebel Inc If you're going to grab people's attention with a cover line, that's the way to do it. In 1993 Irvine Welsh's debut novel 'Trainspotting' was brilliantly packaged to an unsuspecting public with the title in red on [...]

Normally I cringe when I hear about remakes that involve classic cinema. More times than not it ends up with the antagonist being played by a CGI gerbil, and voiced by Ray Romano. But when news comes out that Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh is using the basic story structure of The Magnificent Seven for his latest film, I'm definitely intrigued. Trainspotting novelist Irvine Welsh will direct gritty UK comedy The Magnificent Eleven, a modern-day version of the classic 1960 western The Magnificent Sev e n in which [...]

Gillian stepped back, put her feet together and described an area of the pavement with her hands. It was here, she said, that Carlyle saved himself from despair. He'd become a man with an emptiness where his spirit used to be. He'd lost faith in God, and belief in the Devil. He'd lost faith in love. He saw no rewards in heaven or punishments in hell. His sense of right and wrong seemed like rubbish left behind by illusions of God. It seemed that people just lived afraid of pain, and wanting pleasure. He could imagine people finding a reason [...]

State is cold and damp and beginning to feel slight fatigue. That all ends about half way through VILLAGERS , who huff, and puff and blow the house down. 'Has it stopped raining?' squints Conor O'Brien, peering out through the Crawdaddy tent at wind and rain and grey. 'Oh dear', he concludes. 'Oh dear' is right. It hasn't stopped raining all morning by this stage and people are getting edgy. They are recalling images of Glastonbury, complete with lakes of soupy mud and bodies plastered from head to toe with the stuff. Are we Electric [...]

January is the time to ring in the New Year by creating new and improved habits. Good habits, however, definitely don't make for good reading, so this month I have created a list of books about the worst habit of all: drugs. The list that follows is a mix of fictional and biographical tales of drug abuse that will leave you inspired to stay away - or they may pique your curiosity! So put down that crack pipe just long enough to read about other people's paths through ecstasy and despair from the comfort of your own couch. [...]

Colin MacIntyre releases a new version of "You're A Star" on Jan 26th, 2009 through his own Future Gods Recordings label. The single is taken from his current album release 'The Water' , which has already won universal critical acclaim. Following on from his last single "Famous For Being Famous" , this is another dose of MacIntyre sugar rush. Available from iTunes and all usual download sources. Watch "Famous For Being Famous" video : Colin [...]

Aged 16 I was every britpop cliché you could imagine. I had messy bobbed hair with a big floral clip, dresses your granny wouldn't wear, orthopaedic looking shoes (or green adidas gazelles) and a quite frankly amazing array of plastic jewellery. I had the glitter and the plastic coat. My style icon was Manda from bis . I owned a superman t-shirt and actually went to see Kula Shaker . I was pretty tragic on reflection. Britpop and the mid nineties hold a special place in my heart that I will freely [...]

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