Irvine Welsh

[SteffyB]

Hello.

This site is amazing, unlike today. Its raining in Nottingham. Firstly, excuse my innocence as this is my first time here. I like it..ha ha, I've got to take this opportunity to say that Michael Moorcocks books have inspired me so much...yeah yeah/


Anyways, I am really interested to know if Mr Moorcock or any of you fine people have read any of Irvine Welsh's books. He's a scottish writer most famous for "Trainspotting" Although not abviously similar to MM he writes with the same passion and depth........

Thats my question to you guys.

Love from Nottigham, England, Where the sun don't shine
:?

Stef

[Michael Moorcock]

And what about Welsh's mate Alan Warner ? I agree with you about the passion and engagement. Trainspotting publicity gave a rather sensationalistic view of his work. There's some very good writers out there, these days, doing a whole lot of interesting work. Do you know Warner's work -- The Sopranos, for instance ? When I heard they were making a TV series called The Sopranos I was delighted. Then I learned it wasn't about a bunch of girls but a bunch of gangsters.

[Jules]

The Sopranos is one of my favourite books of the last few years - and a real surprise following on from the two Morvern books - it's a really tender book.

BBC2 bought rights to do it as a TV film or series, but I wonder if they got the problem with the name?

Have you seen the Morvern Collar film - got very little distribution over here and even the DVD is already out of print (from August) and never turned up in any of our rental shops.

[Michael Moorcock]

That's a serious shame. I would dearly love to see that DVD.
Anyone out there got one spare, I'll trade maybe a book of mine they're looking for!

[dlackey]

Hell, I'll ship the DVD straight from Amazon to your house in exchange for anything from your collection!!!

Here's the link, should you desire to buy it yourself without being pillaged of your valuables by rabid fanboys :lol:


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...161890-3095826

[Jules]

Mike - as dlackey has pointed out you can get it from Amazon.com - but not from Amazon UK. I kept an eye out in the shops and never saw it so I wonder if it actually didn't get released over here.

Anyway, bit the bullet and got a multiregion DVD player this weekend - as much to see stuff unavailable in UK as cheaper imports - so that is that problem sorted.

All I know about the Morvern film is that Ratcatcher was good, it's got a fantastic soundtrack, and it seems to really divide people's opinions.

[september23]

I've only read Maribou Stork Nightmares, but I enjoyed it quite a bit. Frankly, I have no frame of reference about what drug culture is actually like, but this book portrayed both the allure and the pitfalls of it so convincingly that I practically felt like I'd just checked out of rehab when I reached the end. Also, I don't know if Welsh is prone to shocking twists in all his books, but Maribou Stork Nightmares has a nice one.

[Michael Moorcock]

Sounds good. I'll start catching up as soon as I can.
A multi-system DVD player seems essential, these days.
I saw one for something like thirty nine quid in England
the other day. Here in the USA they exploit, in my view, the American public's unfamiliarity with just how cheap that stuff can be in the UK and elsewhere and multi-systems cost a fortune. Someone sent us a UK
DVD for Christmas which we were looking forward to, and of course it wouldn't play on our regular DVD. We already have two multisytem
VHF players and I can't bring myself to pay through the nose for a DVD
player at the moment. I asked a dealer over here why they cost so much more in the US. He says that it's to do with a chip which UK TVs
have and US TVs don't have. Luckily I still have a working UK TV, so
intend to get myself a cheap multisystem player when I'm next in the UK.
Meanwhile, UK DVDs will remain a mystery...

[Jerry Cornelius]

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If you can't copy the disk, rig the machine. Flip that bugger over and write down the brand and model number. If the link below don't help, do a search at Google for "<brand> <model number> hack". Most all electronic devices are universal (except for the power source). The region is a setting, not a manufacturing limitation.

Reference: http://www.dvd.reviewer.co.uk/info/multiregion/

[Michael Moorcock]

I'll give it a shot, but I notice that the link you give is a UK
one, where multisystem players are cheaply available
anyway. What I was told was that the corresponding chip
isn't in the US TV sets.

[Anonymous]

Believe it or not, some models can have their regions doodled with by punching a combination of buttons on the remote. Brand and model determine whether or not you can do it. That includes DVD players in the US and elsewhere.

[Jules]

Mike - cheapest I've seen was 35 quid, they were flying out of the shop - but I guess the region they are popular items in the UK is because the DVD's are cheaper elsewhere - I guess a multi-region player would only be of interest to film buffs and manga fans in the US (though on those grounds, might be worth checking round a nearby Chinatown or Korean shop, as might have sell a line for ex-pats??).

Might be the same thing with the TVs - as US is wholly NTSC maybe don't do them with the PAL decoder, wheras most Eurozone ones have to support the various formats used across Europe?