Tom Dunne

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432 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 5 Jul

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Brendan O'Connor · “Choose Life” - The Trainspotting Soundtrack turns 30 · 5 Jul 2026 podcast

and stay young forever.

And it just, the feeling from this song, it's so beautifully placed in the film.

He should have stayed in his lane, I think is the phrase he used there.

Yeah, I think if ever it made it at the point that a soundtrack can absolutely change the trajectory of a movie, it did that.

I mentioned the budget, 1.5 million and 800,000 for promotion.

The soundtrack was just doing all the heavy lifting going ahead.

And you know where it was really doing the work.

It was it was if you were young and going out at the time, you might go and see the film.

But the next weekend you'd go to you'd go to a nightclub.

And you'd hear these songs again in the nightclub.

So it was kind of keeping it going and reconnecting you.

So if you were of that age, it made it the film of the summer for you.

And probably a film that you'd remember for the rest of your life as well because it was connecting with these times when you were out and you were enjoying yourself and you were having this crack.

You're right.

And I think part of what worked so well in the posters was how incredible the cast looked.

The cast were amazing in this.

And Ewan McGregor lost two stone for it and shaved his head.

But still so beautiful, wasn't he?

He just looks impotent and, you know, trouble and mischievous.

And it's brilliant.

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