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Trainspotting

May 2024

  • Ewan McGregor, Kerry Fox and Christopher Eccleston in Shallow Grave (1994).

    Mark Kermode on film
    Mark Kermode on… Danny Boyle, a director who defines British pop culture

    As his dazzling debut, Shallow Grave, gets a 30th anniversary rerelease, here’s to an extraordinary career that ranges from Trainspotting to Slumdog Millionaire and that unforgettable London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony

January 2024

  • Karl Hyde (left) and Rick Smith of Underworld.

    Ranked
    Underworld’s 20 best songs – ranked!

    30 years on from the release of their seminal third album dubnobasswithmyheadman, we assess the band’s stream-of-consciousness techno epics

January 2023

  • Brian Tufano in the 1990s, the decade in which he came into his own in cinematic work.

    Brian Tufano obituary

    Cinematographer who brought his imaginative sensibilities to films such as Trainspotting, Billy Elliot and Quadrophenia

October 2021

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    Trainspotting: behind the scenes by Danny Boyle, Ewan McGregor, Irvine Welsh and more

    The bust-up with Harvey Weinstein, Irvine Welsh’s verdict on the script (‘too effete’), the problem with the excrement scene … the cast and crew relive the making of the classic 1996 film

August 2018

  • Irvine Welsh

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Irvine Welsh: ‘I thought Trainspotting would be a cult book, but not generation-defining’

    Irvine Welsh: ‘It sometimes feels like we’re sliding into fascism by stealth’

March 2018

  • Black-hearted farceur … Irvine Welsh.

    Dead Men’s Trousers by Irvine Welsh review – the Trainspotting gang party on

    Renton, Begbie, Sick Boy and Spud are back in this wildly farcical story of revenge, sentimentality and psychedelic drugs
  • irvine welsh stands in the wellington cafe george street edinburgh in close up

    Book of the day
    Dead Men’s Trousers by Irvine Welsh – a last hurrah for Renton and company

    The heroes of Trainspotting keep on giving – albeit in increasingly cartoonish form
  • Irvine Welsh

    Irvine Welsh: ‘When you get older, it’s harder to be a bastard’

    The author talks about his obsessive-compulsive thing, which Trainspotting character he most resembles, and losing his temper

September 2017

  • Kelly Macdonald<br>SPECIAL PRICE. Scottish actress, Kelly Macdonald

    This much I know
    Kelly Macdonald: ‘Never mind hangovers on the Trainspotting set, people were still drunk’

    The actor, 41, tells Craig McLean about cowboy boots, childbearing, self-sufficiency and being bullied at school

    for not swearing

August 2017

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    This much I know
    Irvine Welsh: ‘You see the white male rage of Begbie in the culture today’

  • Trainspotting actors including Ewan McGregor, second left.

    'Trainspotting generation' most likely to die from drug use

May 2017

  • Composite of the films Fierce Creatures, The Sting, Runaway Bride and Chasing Amy

    When big-screen reunions work … and when they don't

    The team behind Oscar-nominated crime thriller Hell and High Water have just announced a new project, but what can they learn from other re-teams that have and haven’t been successful?

March 2017

  • Gavin Ross in Trainspotting Live

    Adelaide Fringe: six talked-up shows you have to see

    From Trainspotting to Isis to abortion, the festival is tackling big issues with a big heart – but there are moments of silliness and spectacle too

January 2017

  • Ewan McGregor in skinny jeans as Renton in Trainspotting.

    From Spud to Slimane: how Trainspotting helped invent the skinny jean

  • The former Crosslands pub, now the Kelbourne Saint

    Begbie’s balcony and Spud’s cafe: classic Trainspotting haunts 20 years on

  • T2 Trainspotting film still RENTON (Ewan McGregor) <br>SPUD (Ewen Bremner) <br>SICK BOY (Jonny Lee Miller) <br>BEGBIE (Robert Carlyle) <br>

    Now you've seen it
    T2 Trainspotting: discuss Danny Boyle's sequel with spoilers

  • More to come? Robert Carlyle at the Edinburgh premiere of T2 Trainspotting.

    Robert Carlyle: Trainspotting 3 could be on the way

  • Blondie, The Clash and Queen: is the Trainspotting 2's soundtrack as good as the original?

  • Trainspotting review – still a cinematic drug of choice

  • Ewan McGregor: ‘What if I'm not Scottish enough any more?’

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