Gail Porter and thehe most fantastic of decades..
The 1990’s was a spectacularly good decade that saw music, film, magazine and TV culture change. Perhaps best of all this was it all happened in a pre-internet, pre-mobile phone era that saw everyone living in the moment. So in all of the we saw Oasis, Blur and The Prodigy, Loaded magazine, lad (Liam Gallagher) and ladette (Gail Porter) culture, Chris Evans dominate radio and TV with his breakfast show and TFI Friday. And then there was of course film with the pre-eminent release Trainspotting and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels at the forefront
It is director Danny Boyle’s ‘Trainspotting’ that is what really grabbed the attention with its extraordinary, gritty and stylish film based on Irvine Welsh’s groundbreaking debut novel that made him a superstar author that everyone wanted to hang out with and as well as his love of clubbing and all that came with that scene. It’s all captured in the new documentary ‘Beyond Trainspotting: The World of Irvine Welsh’ that takes a look at the influence of the writer at the peak of his powers and his legacy.
Beyond Trainspotting with Gail Porter…
Involved in the documentary is presenter Gail Porter herself one of the women (along with Zoe Ball, Sara Cox, Denise Van Outen and arguably the Spice Girls too) of that decade and Gail’s naked picture from Loaded projected on the side of the Houses of Parliament remains one of many iconic moments of the era.
Like Welsh himself her native city is Edinburgh where the film is set and we got to chat with Gail about the documentary, the book and the influence of Welsh himself.
related feature : Nick Moran actor-director on Lock Stock, Harry Potter, Guy Ritchie plus his favourite films
related feature : ‘Oasis Knebworth 1996’ reviewed plus a chat with Noel Gallagher
Watch our chat with the gregarious and utterly delightful Gail Porter here…..
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