“It was one of those ‘if Carlsberg did weekends’, you know? I was shooting my scene on the Friday, then meeting all the boys off the train the next morning. The previous night across the city, the 59-year-old reprised his cameo role as drug dealer Mikey Forrester (pictured) in T2 Trainspotting, the long-awaited sequel to Danny Boyle’s 1996 adaptation of the 1993 debut novel that brought Welsh fame and fortune. “114 years since we last won it,” Welsh says, still beaming. On May 21, Welsh and his oldest mates witnessed something that will live on forever for one half of Edinburgh, as his beloved Hibs FC won a historic Scottish Cup courtesy of a dramatic injury time winner at Hampden Park. “But for me,” he pauses, before bringing The Big Issue back from the abyss, “it was absolutely fantastic.”įor Welsh, his euphoric outlook can be boiled down to one spring weekend in Glasgow last year. Obviously it started terribly with Bowie’s death. “Last year,” says Irvine Welsh, the bestselling Scottish author, “was the year of misery for everyone.
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