Tag: Trainspotting

Trainspotting is one of those films you can never see too often. And this afternoon it is on at Campervan Brewery in Leith, transforming the outdoor beer garden into a pop up micro cinema. There...

Coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the original publication of Trainspotting, comes Tim Bell’s critical analysis and geographical account of Leith, Choose Life Choose Leith: Trainspotting on Location which will be published on 3...

This is a walking tour of the hot spots of Leith brought to fame in Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting which takes place on certain days during the Fringe. On 2 August there is also a...

It is known as one of the most iconic opening scenes in modern cinema - Trainspotting's Renton and his hapless sidekick Spud running full tilt along Edinburgh's Princes Street. Now, in a hilarious homage to...

Teenager Robbie Griffith has been posting videos of his parkour and trampolining on YouTube for two years, but this one must be his best yet. It uses all the scenes in Edinburgh where the crew...

by Jonny Murray, University of Edinburgh What a drag it is getting old. Trainspotting mid-life-crisis-cum-catch-up sequel T2 feels that in its aching bones. But director Danny Boyle’s film also knows that the passing of time hurts...

A Scottish start-up company used one of their innovative lighting systems in the production of the new Trainspotting film. The Scorpion Light is a flexible and portable system which is suited to the most remote...

First an opportunity......then a betrayal. After twenty years much has changed but just as much remains the same. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsozpEE543w&feature=youtu.be Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to the only place he can ever call home. Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy...

The flats made famous in Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting could be protected with a listed status. The charity organisation Historic Environment Scotland which cares for and protects the historic environment across the country is holding a...

War Poets Collection Guided Tours: Edinburgh Napier University houses a small special collection of material relating to the fascinating history of its Craiglockhart campus, which began life in 1880 as a Hydropathic establishment and was...

MONDAY 18TH AUGUST 2014 Edinburgh Book Fringe 2014: John Menaghan and Andy Jackson.  Prize-winning poet and playwright John Menaghan has published four books with Salmon Poetry (Ireland); four of his short plays have been staged...

Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh has emerged as the winner of Book Week Scotland’s poll to find the favourite Scottish novel of the last 50 years. Over 8,800 votes were cast in the search for the...