There are locations and locations! It seemed appropriate to interview the Scottish writer in a sex shop in the City of the Tribes, when he was in town for the recent Cúirt Festival. However, the interview begins with questions about Irvine’s own taste - or otherwise! - in explicit sexual material.

Later in the interview, he talks to Olaf about the possibility of a cinematic sequel to Trainspotting, which of course was hugely successful a movie – what would in effect be a movie version of the writer's follow-up novel, Porno.

"If we can get a good script, we probably will do it," Irvine says. "If we can't, we definitely won't. Nobody needs the money and we don’t want to thrash the legacy… We are talking about it. The actors are 20 years older now, so we'd have to do something different. We couldn't base it purely on Porno."

* For a longer interview with Irvine Welsh, by Olaf Tyaransen, see the next issue of Hot Press