What interests me, personally, is work which in some way, speaks the truth to power…I don’t think we speak the truth to power for power’s ear, but for the ear and the imagination of future generations, who would seek to live in a world free from the malign and self-serving influence of those who wield it.

- Irvine Welsh, speaking at the Edinburgh World Writers’ Conference in August 2012

Happy birthday to the man who brought us Ecstasy, Filth, Rent Boy, Sick Boy,and the rest of the Skagboys.

(Photo: Ecstasy Film Production Services)