Salva Deluxe Barcelona: It's all true, but it might not have happened

Irvine Welsh energy.

Almodóvar colour.

A jukebox heart.

Berlin. Late summer.

A train pulls out of the station and a twenty-three-year-old Englishman begins to disappear.

Somewhere between stations, the old life loosens its grip. Names blur. Certainties fade.

In the dark window of the carriage he experiments with new versions of himself. At his feet: a suitcase full of vinyl. Around him: strangers charged with possibility.

Then comes Barcelona.

It's the restless months before the 1992 Olympics - a c...