Trainspotting (film) Trainspotting (film) Trainspotting is a 1996 British black comedy film directed by Danny Boyle and starring Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, and Kelly Macdonald in her acting debut. Based on the novel of the same name by Irvine Welsh, the film was released in the United Kingdom on 23 February 1996. The Academy Award-nominated screenplay by John Hodge follows a group of heroin addicts in an economically depressed area of Edinburgh and their passage through life. Beyond drug addiction, other themes in the film are exploration of the urban poverty and squalor in "culturally
The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack, often referred to as simply The Heroin Diaries, is the debut studio album by , a side project of Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx. The band also features lead vocalist James Michael and guitarist DJ Ashba. The concept album serves as the companion soundtrack to Sixx's autobiography, "", and is about Sixx's severe heroin addiction in 1987. The first single, "," debuted at #26 on the Billboard charts. Designed to be an accompaniment to "", the autobiography of Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx co-written by Sixx and Ian Gittens that details his