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tn IRVINE WELSH TALKING TO FOALS Acclaimed writer talks films Hugh McCafferty interviews 3 and Trainspotting in Trinity. 4 indie’s hottest new band COVERNOTESP2 here has the Irvine Welsh, of Trainspotting year gone? fame, visited those lucky film The SU students, an account of which is Elections given in the Interview section. are looming Fashion looks at the Wand the countless upcoming vogue for following celebrity AGMs make it feel like this fashions and Film reveals what year is already over even happens when an actor dies though it’s still only February. during the production of a film. Summer panic is already In the Books section Paul setting in, with people planning Earlie has written a brilliant holidays and work placements. article on the relatively Given the short length of unheard of work of Irène Trinity Term, the academic Némirovsky, a writer who was year seems unbelievably short. killed during the Holocaust. This issue of TN2 sees Read it. Hugh McCafferty interviewing Foals for our feature story. Catriona Photo courtesy of Ibid hen you’re playing gigs at entry level, it’s really a “Wsituation where you’re just playing to your mates.” Ibid’s very existence, it would seem, is a reaction against soul-destroying amateurishness of the vast majority of Dublin’s Notorious promoters. Composed of members of bands both operational and defunct, the three-piece play vicious guitar rock In which our heroine talks demons of complete with taut bass lines, frantic drums and riffs as big as your house. relationships past… Words: Victoria Notaro Although only technically operational for a few weeks, Steven, Kev and Luke have played together before under n this day and age, it stands to reason that different guises. by the time you reach your early twenties, I talked to front man Steven about his you will have experienced heartbreak in We are all affected decision to leave behind past projects some way, shape or form. Even if you and start afresh. “I felt it was time to haven’t been dumped, cheated on, dumped by the people we take things more seriously, start playing Ifor cheating, sleeping around or duped by a gigs with decent promoters, play outside let into our hearts, relationship con artist, something negative must Dublin and try to get some good support have happened to you with opposite sex. Unless and not always in slots.” The new beginning has certainly you’ve been living in your mam’s basement. proven to be a creative spark. “Songs are From the serious to the minor, we all carry “a good way. getting better, less insular. It comes relationship baggage - whether we care to admit it down to experience and playing at a or not. It is generally believed that the things that higher level.” Steven cites British post happen to us over the course of our lives shape the hardcore bands like Reuben and Biffy person we become. I believe the same is true of our year, and certainly didn’t think I wanted another Ibid Clyro as in"uences. “And PJ Harvey, not previous liaisons of the heart. I think we are all relationship. I shouted all those phrases that people that that’s so discernible,” he laughs. haunted by the ghost of relationships past. who are afraid of romantic af!liations (for one The band’s demo, recorded in We don’t want to make the same mistakes as reason or another) do - I’ll be single until I’m thirty, Ballymun’s Cosmic Studios, sounds before. We want to !nd a similar connection to one men are so immature, I’m never getting married, promising. “It was an interesting process; previously experienced, that ever elusive spark. We relationships smother your individuality, blah…” oh everything was put under a microscope, don’t want to be treated badly again, and we I talked a LOT. But that’s all it was, fear talking. I so it really became obvious what we certainly don’t want to be the nasty one either. was absolutely terri!ed of being vulnerable ever needed to work on.” With the recording Every new relationship is indeed a carte blanche - again. And while that changes, I don’t think it ever under their belt, Ibid hope to start that’s just waiting to be smeared with the completely goes away. playing gigs in a month or two, gigs metaphorical shit that once hit the fan. We are all affected by the people we let into Steven promises to “ publicise the shit Whitney Houston once sang “Where do our hearts, and not always in a good way. And it out of.” broken hearts go?” - Well Whitters, that’s a good goes both ways. If you’re involved with someone, Ibid warrant your attention for a variety question. Some believe they mend in time. Others their past shouldn’t be allowed into your present, of reasons. Their songs are satisfyingly try to pretend it never happened. I think they but by God it happens! At some point, we have to rocking without a hint of crustiness and simply rework themselves around your new make the conscious decision to push it all aside and they maintain a sense of technical situation. They say the !rst cut is the deepest - oh take the past for what it actually is, or it will send complexity without the chin-stroking. pop music is so wise! I could reference some you round the bend. All three have plenty of live experience; proverbs: “Once bitten, twice shy”, “Two’s If you’re being haunted, unfortunately you Steven spits out vocals with vitriolic company, your bloody ex makes a crowd.” Ahem. cant call a priest, or the Ghostbusters. You can go panache between tapping solos, Kev, on The point is, it’s all true, and that’s why they’re see a shrink, but that’s expensive, and hey, they drums, hammers his way through time cliché... Duh! don’t know what happened. Nobody else can !x signature changes with ease and Luke, To prove my point, I will get personal. My little you, no matter how hard they try. You have to on bass, has the stage presence of a man heart was trampled on by my !rst love - ouch, isn’t exorcise your own relationship demons, whether in contact with a higher being. it so much worse when the !rst love dumps you? you’re with someone or not - or else be prepared Check out the tracks on their MySpace You wish you’d been the one to “grow away” from for them to come back and bite you in the ass - page and keep a look out for upcoming the situation, not them! Anyway, I was single for a hard. gigs. www.myspace.com/ibidmusic COLLEGE BANDS: COLLEGE P3INTERVIEW Film students get a talking to when Irvine Welsh comes to Trinity. Words: Katie Photo: Conor O’Kelly McCarthy rvine Welsh is a widely celebrated, this is a form of ‘cultural activism’ most books’, concluding with a haughty giggle, modern-day Scottish writer. His other authors of his generation appear to ‘That’s great for me, you know.’ debut novel, Trainspotting (1993), have disregarded. Of the process of Welsh revealed he is set to present the recounts the tale of a group of writing he declared emphatically, Outstanding Contribution to British characters during Thatcher’s ‘Writing is a very selfish thing. It has hard Film Award at the Empire Film Awards Iblighted 80s; unified by crumbling effects on your family and all the things in London, on March 9th , to his old friendships, condemned attempts at around you.’ comrade Ewan McGregor. McGregor escape from their tyrannically Readers frequently find the Scottish was catapulted to fame following his monotonous and vicious lives, whilst vernacular in Welsh’s novels difficult to stirring and energised performance as struggling against a destructive understand. When asked as to his Renton in Danny Boyle’s adaptation of Irvine Welsh Irvine dependence on heroin. principal motive for adopting this dialect Welsh’s debut novel. Welsh spoke of the On his recent visit to speak to Dr within his work he explained that he has film in response to the question of Carol Jones’ 20th Century Scottish always felt predisposed towards music, whether he ever worried that some Literature seminar group, a mild- being captivated by house music people may find his unsympathetic mannered Welsh spoke of the especially at the time of writing characters, sympathetic? Welsh retorted tribulations facing a writer today, Trainspotting. It would be only natural to that he only worried when watching the declaring ‘I honestly don’t think want to recreate that level of screen adaptations of his work, primarily Trainspotting would be published now- exhilaration within his novels, and he felt Boyle’s Trainspotting, because ‘on the publishers are making authors write into this could be achieved most effectively screen things develop a ‘buzz’, that some type-holes. They want writers to keep by adopting an unrelenting Scots dialect [viewers] may find attractive’, and writing about genres that have proved as his primary narrative voice, declaring henceforth wish to replicate, which popular amongst readers.’ Welsh remains ‘Standard English is a great language, but understandably instils worry in him a contentious figure since Trainspotting’s it is an imperial language, it’s not very knowing the nature of some of his publication. His work has shown itself to funky.’ Welsh continued by stating that character’s volatile temperaments be immensely challenging for literary he had a desire to seize upon the feelings together with their dangerous critics to digest, a struggle made of exhilaration attributed to house music, predispositions and behaviour.

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