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ScotlandsFest: Choose Life Choose Leith – Trainspotting on Location

Tim Bell / Luath Press

Venue

St Columba's by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church

Dates

27 Aug

Time

10:30am · 60min

Price

£10

Set firmly in unglamorous 1980s Leith, Trainspotting has burst through stage, film and musical genres, dodging the forces of orthodoxy and censorship. But is it just scurrilous punk, junk, transgressional entertainment that got lucky? Bell reveals how this hard-to-read and on-location book tells truths that need to be told. And how it's everyone's business. Author of 'Choose Life, Choose Leith' and living in Leith since 1980, he brings street-level wisdom, erudite research and a good dash of humour to the Trainspotting phenomenon. 'Great study from a serious Trainspotting scholar' (Irvine Welsh).