The Acid House

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The situation and the manner in which it plays out with people at stake and a distressed baby making itself known at certain times keeps the story routed and somewhat humbling. His father was a dock worker in Leith until bad health forced him to stop, after which he became a carpet salesman; he died when Welsh was 25. He worked for Hackney Council in London and studied computing with the support of the Manpower Services Commission. Mark Schmitt: British White Trash: Figurations of Tainted Whiteness in the Novels of Irvine Welsh, Niall Griffiths and John King. I’ve had therapy: I once did it with a guy in Islington who actually made me lie down on a couch, which was fucking great.

The Acid House - Penguin Books UK

iW: A British journalist told me that you’ve had to do a lot of explaining about these films to the public there. It's also not that instructive comparing The Acid House to Trainspotting, although it plays some of the same cards, notably a scrupulously hip soundtrack. Expelled from the team, dumped by said girlfriend, and kicked out of the house by his parents, Boab seeks solace in the bottom of a pint glass at the local pub.PLOT: A grotesque, genre-bending trio of tawdry, disturbing stories about squalor, decay, excess, perversion, stupidity, and altered states. We know upstairs neighbour Larry is a monster, but McGuigan makes him a comic horror show, strutting his stuff pop-video style to T Rex in the shower.

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I wanted to get to the heart of adult relationships, to make an adult record that was appropriate to my age. A series of arrests for petty crimes and finally a suspended sentence for trashing a North London community centre inspired Welsh to correct his ways. His pretentious boss Rafferty tells him `it's important to remember it's not the person we make redundant, it's the post'.In spite of this, director Paul McGuigan, superbly brings Welsh's other two stories to life and it's surely praise indeed when one can exclude a full third of a movie and still class it as one of their all time favourites. His next book, Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance (1996), became his most high-profile work since Trainspotting, released in the wave of publicity surrounding the film.