‘I THINK we’re all vengeful,” says Irvine Welsh as we meet in a café in Edinburgh’s Canongate. Fuelled up on caffeine, he is ready to…
‘I THINK we’re all vengeful,” says Irvine Welsh as we meet in a café in Edinburgh’s Canongate. Fuelled up on caffeine, he is ready to embark on the book tour of the final instalment in the Crime trilogy.
After the novel Crime was adapted for TV, Welsh was asked for more. During lockdown, he wrote two other books – The Long Knives and Resolution.Throughout the series, Lennox is driven by an increasing appetite for vengeance. A trait Welsh believes all of us are ultimately guilty of. “When people are under real extreme pressure and they don’t have a lot of social ammunition to cope, they just act impulsively and make mistakes.
“The way the world is set up, you’re either forced into being a total bastard or a real mug, basically.“There used to be a big space between the two where you could be a human being. Now we’re in this terrible situation where everybody’s a member of the precariat.” His cup is now empty, and he switches to tea, as he fears he might end up drinking coffee all day – the perks of a jam-packed book tour.Despite prolifically voicing his thoughts on X, Welsh does not engage in online debates, but admits he often takes the “contentious” route.
“A lot of older people who have been successful artists moan that they’ve been cancelled because they’ve got quite old and reactionary. You’ve not been cancelled because of that thing you’ve said that’s edgy, you’ve just been cast as if you were a boring old c***t.
Last year marked the 30th anniversary of Trainspotting. Even though the “King of the 90s” is now in his sixties, his audience seems to get younger. “I’m supposed to be promoting it, but I don’t really care about it any more. I’m only interested in the book I’m writing now.”
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