Random Trainspotting Question!

[LustForLeith]

See in the film when Renton meets Diane and it’s filmed in the Volcano club in Glasgow, what club is it supposed to be in Edinburgh? Couldn’t remember how this was referenced in the book i.e what club was mentioned in the book?

[pollution]

See in the film when Renton meets Diane and it’s filmed in the Volcano club in Glasgow, what club is it supposed to be in Edinburgh? Couldn’t remember how this was referenced in the book i.e what club was mentioned in the book?


I don't know the answer to that but why is the film called Trainspotting ?

[Pretty Boy]

I don't know the answer to that but why is the film called Trainspotting ?

A scene in the book that didn't make it to the film when Begbie and Renton meet the formers jakey dad in the old Leith Central Station and he asks them if they are trainspotting.

I'm not sure if it's ever specified in the book the name of the club where Renton meets Dianne. Loads of old Edinburgh club nights and venues are mentioned but I think that one is just just a generic unnamed club. I'd have to go back and read it again to be sure though.

[CropleyWasGod]

I don't know the answer to that but why is the film called Trainspotting ?


A scene in the book that didn't make it to the film when Begbie and Renton meet the formers jakey dad in the old Leith Central Station and he asks them if they are trainspotting.

I'm not sure if it's ever specified in the book the name of the club where Renton meets Dianne. Loads of old Edinburgh club nights and venues are mentioned but I think that one is just just a generic unnamed club. I'd have to go back and read it again to be sure though.

My biggest beef with the film was that they omitted that particular scene.

For me, it is the most important passage in the whole book. It says so much about addiction, and how its insidious nature can be passed down the generations in different forms (eg the jakey's with drink, his son's generation with drugs).

Just looked out my copy. It's an un-named "tacky, chrome-and-neon meat market". So..... Buster Brown's or the Electric Circus? :greengrin

[CallumLaidlaw]

My biggest beef with the film was that they omitted that particular scene.

For me, it is the most important passage in the whole book. It says so much about addiction, and how its insidious nature can be passed down the generations in different forms (eg the jakey's with drink, his son's generation with drugs).




I think im right in that they included this scene in the second film?


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[silverhibee]

My biggest beef with the film was that they omitted that particular scene.

For me, it is the most important passage in the whole book. It says so much about addiction, and how its insidious nature can be passed down the generations in different forms (eg the jakey's with drink, his son's generation with drugs).

Just looked out my copy. It's an un-named "tacky, chrome-and-neon meat market". So..... Buster Brown's or the Electric Circus? :greengrin

I’m with Dr Robertson on his thoughts about the film, was nothing like how it was in the day but it did highlight that you could catch H.I.V. AIDS from sharing needles was the only good thing to come out of it.

[J-C]

I think im right in that they included this scene in the second film?


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They did, in a flash back scene.

[He's here!]

I loved the book, hated the film. I persevered with Welsh's books but none were a patch on Trainspotting and I stopped reading them.

[Kato]

I loved the book, hated the film. I persevered with Welsh's books but none were a patch on Trainspotting and I stopped reading them.I reckon Filth, Maribou Stork Nightmares and Glue are all better novels than Trainspotting. However Trainspotting has the cache and impact of being the first using that Edinburgh twang.

Saying that I haven't read all his books.

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[pollution]

They did, in a flash back scene.

Now I understand !

[Pretty Boy]

I reckon Filth, Maribou Stork Nightmares and Glue are all better novels than Trainspotting. However Trainspotting has the cache and impact of being the first using that Edinburgh twang.

Saying that I haven't read all his books.

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Glue is probably my favourite book by Welsh. I've always thought it would make a great TV show if done properly.

I liked Skag Boys as a prequel. I felt Porno was a bit Carry on Trainspotting and had clearly been influenced by the film in how it dealt with the characters (there is no mention of Renton sorting out Spud for cash in the book, it was in the film and then ran with in Porno as one example). I believe Skag Boys was drawn from a lot of the same notes and drafts that eventually became Trainspotting and you can tell. It delves into a lot of the social issues a bit more deeply. Referencing Orgreave and the strikes in general, unemployment on a mass scale, shutting down of work and education opportunities, urban decay etc etc. I grew up in an Edinburgh scheme in the late 80s/early 90s and the bleakness portrayed in the book rang a lot of bells. For all I was too young to really understand it, you can recognise a neglected run down ****hole at any age.

I believe there is another Trainspotting sequel in the works dealing with the intervening years between Trainspotting and Porno. I'm hopeful that could be pretty good as it will capture the whole ' things can only get better' era and the run up to it.

[He's here!]

Glue is probably my favourite book by Welsh. I've always thought it would make a great TV show if done properly.

I liked Skag Boys as a prequel. I felt Porno was a bit Carry on Trainspotting and had clearly been influenced by the film in how it dealt with the characters (there is no mention of Renton sorting out Spud for cash in the book, it was in the film and then ran with in Porno as one example). I believe Skag Boys was drawn from a lot of the same notes and drafts that eventually became Trainspotting and you can tell. It delves into a lot of the social issues a bit more deeply. Referencing Orgreave and the strikes in general, unemployment on a mass scale, shutting down of work and education opportunities, urban decay etc etc. I grew up in an Edinburgh scheme in the late 80s/early 90s and the bleakness portrayed in the book rang a lot of bells. For all I was too young to really understand it, you can recognise a neglected run down ****hole at any age.

I believe there is another Trainspotting sequel in the works dealing with the intervening years between Trainspotting and Porno. I'm hopeful that could be pretty good as it will capture the whole ' things can only get better' era and the run up to it.

I remember going to watch Irvine Welsh speak at an event, just as folk were starting to talk about Trainspotting and he said he'd never tried to write anything before so he didn't follow any sort of guidelines, he just kept writing and that what he ended up with was pretty much the finished book (as opposed to the umpteenth draft). He might have been putting some spin on that I guess, but he came across as a quiet guy a bit humbled by the buzz growing around the book. It's that spontaneous feel to the book which really grabbed me at the time.

[Kato]

I remember going to watch Irvine Welsh speak at an event, just as folk were starting to talk about Trainspotting and he said he'd never tried to write anything before so he didn't follow any sort of guidelines, he just kept writing and that what he ended up with was pretty much the finished book (as opposed to the umpteenth draft) .

He had a great editor for Trainspotting. About two thirds of it was left out, some ending up as short stories or (maybe) rehashed into other works. The editor also worked with him in putting his drafts into the final published form.

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[Wembley67]

If you'd like something in a similar vein I highly recommend 'The Damage', also set in Edinburgh around the west of Edinburgh. Written by an upcoming local author 💪

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Damage-Robin-Payne/dp/1399988530?dplnkId=92664d80-4daf-4ce6-b934-53b8f492e1b5

[Colr]

I was always interested in the mixed race character in the book (not the film) had same name as my mixed race great uncle from Leith.

[Pretty Boy]

I was always interested in the mixed race character in the book (not the film) had same name as my mixed race great uncle from Leith.

Spud's cousin that got battered by the Orangemen in The Persevere?

Always found that scene pretty harrowing. Couple of guys going in to one of the safer pubs in Leith and a group taking liberties based on nothing but their own prejudices.