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'Trainspotting' author Irvine Welsh's lust for life
Scottish novelist Irvine Welsh lives one heck of a life.
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Irvine Welsh (Anthony Wallace/Anthony Wallace)
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cottish author Irvine Welsh is back with his latest novel called Dead Men’s Trousers, reuniting readers with the cast of characters from his landmark 1993 novel Trainspotting.
The fictional character Mark Renton is finally a success now, as Welsh’s publisher's website describes it.
“Becoming an international jet-setter, he now makes significant money managing DJs,” the online synopsis states, describing the good fortunes that have seemingly affected the character, who in the previous Trainspotting novel series seemed to just wander aimlessly through his life, along with his pals Frank Begbie, Sick Boy and Spud – all drug addicts.
Renton’s latest incarnation might have been influenced by Welsh’s own personal experience working with party music himself.
When he was appearing onstage during the closing night of the 2019 Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali, he was not there to read excerpts from his new novel.
That he already did in his afternoon session. That evening, he had incarnated into DJ Irvine, toying with the Pioneer DJ set to set the mood for a party, entertaining a crowd of writers, intellectuals and literary enthusiasts who flocked onto the front lawn of the Blanco Renaissance Museum.
