Looking For The Perfect Beat: Episode 7 - Irvine Welsh

Looking for the Perfect Beat is the new podcast from Arthur Baker that dives into what drives artists across music, film, art and literature.Hosted by producer and DJ Arthur Baker, the show reconnects friends and collaborators featured in his new memoir (also titled Looking for the Perfect Beat) for honest, behind-the-scenes stories that go deeper than anywhere else.In this wide-ranging, funny, and deeply reflective conversation, Arthur Baker sits down with Irvin Welsh to trace a shared life shaped by music, clubs, chaos, creativity, and collaboration. From disco, punk, and rave culture to Bowie, Chic, house music, and the birth of Trainspotting, Welsh explains how music became the foundation of his storytelling and worldview. The two revisit their early collaborations, misadventures in studios and clubs, and how raving ultimately pushed Welsh toward writing his first novel. Along the way, they reflect on joy, discipline, failure, AI, collaboration, and why disco still represents the purest human expression of freedom and movement. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.