Just a few of the many (many!) Irvine Welsh-related sites and articles to be found on the Web. Updated February 2003.
irvinewelsh.net: The official Irvine Welsh site. Welsh writes: "This is my website, official, if you like. There's already some good ones, the site ran by Spike Magazine www.irvinewelsh.com. has a good mixture of interesting stuff and rubbish. It's hoped this one will have the same good and crap mixture, but with a different slant. One guarantee: there will be stuff on it you can't get elsewhere. " Read sections edited from Glue, news on Welsh's new filmscript, the first hints on Porno (his book for 2002, featuring characters from Trainspotting), Cult Saturday film reviews, UK touring dates, and much more!
Random House UK's official website for the British edition of Porno. (Caution: Flash-intensive!)
The following sites are not maintained by Norton and are not specifically authorized by Irvine Welsh or W. W. Norton.
irvinewelsh.com: An exhaustive and comprehensive unofficial site produced by British literary zine Spike. Plenty of news, articles and reviews, and an extensive collection of links. Frequently updated.
The Irvine Welsh Hole: News and reviews by a dedicated fan. A work in progress (but on the Web, what isn't?)
"A Fault on the Line": An exclusive Welsh short story as published in The Barcelona Review.
Trainspotting: The Movie Location Guide: Planning a holiday to Scotland? Visit these sites where the movie was filmed.
Hanging with the Scottish Homeboys: Read about the classic 1997 Great Scots Tour which teamed up Welsh, Duncan McLean, and James Kelman, in this article by Welsh's original editor in the US, Gerald Howard.
Starspotting: Mix Ewan MacGregor in Trainspotting with Ewan MacGregor in Star Wars, Episode I: The Phantom Menace and what do you get?
But what is Trainspotting, really?
And, for extra credit, here's your World Wide Web essay question: Why does www.trainspotting.com lead to a site on The Blair Witch Project?
