You won’t find a more arresting opening scene in movie history: At the start of Danny Boyle’s caffeinated classic Trainspotting, we see Ewan McGregor’s character, Mark Renton, race down Princess ...

David Bowie said no to a lot of people. Since Bowie's passing, we've learned that he declined to collaborate with people like Coldplay and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and he famously refused to allow ...

The soundtrack to the sequel to Danny Boyle's 1996 film has leaked (and subsequently been removed) onto Amazon UK. Danny Boyle‘s 1996 film “Trainspotting” follows a group of heroin addicts in an ...

I fire up Netflix and rewatch an opening scene that I have long since committed to memory: The spirited beat of “Lust for Life” replaces the rhythm of feet pounding sidewalk as Renton and his friends ...

The director also explains why none of the sequel's marketing materials include footage of Jonny Lee Miller and Ewan McGregor’s unique duet: "It’s ridiculous and wonderful and takes no prisoners." By ...

NOEL Gallagher missed out on featuring on the soundtrack for Trainspotting because he thought the film was about railway buffs. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get ...

After seven years of director Danny Boyle teasing us with the prospect of a Trainspotting sequel, Renton, Begbie and their reprobate friends are finally coming back to the big screen. The core cast ...

Looking at Trainspotting's soundtrack, it's kind of weird that Oasis never featured. Surely they would've fitted right in alongside the likes of Damon Albarn, Iggy Pop, New Order and Pulp on the 1996 ...

Young Fathers is one of the most enigmatic bands to come out of the UK in the last decade. Back in 2014 they won the Mercury Prize for their outstanding debut album Dead. Following that win, they ...

The rock band Oasis, Britain's hottest act in the late 1990s and early 2000s, turned down a chance to be on the soundtrack of the movie "Trainspotting" because band members thought it was about ...

Released in 1996, Trainspotting hit cinemas at a time when Great Britain was beginning to find its swagger again. The moniker Cool Britannia was even being used to label the country's surge in pop ...