To hell with media responsibility. DrownedinSound has waited so long to type out that headline that as we did our knuckles hummed with a kind of cathartic euphoria. Even if the ‘murder’ in question will take place in front of cameras, on a film set, for Irvine Welsh’s new film.

A new Irvine Welsh film? A boon for anyone feeling cheated by the title of this article, perhaps – the screen writer's current picture is based on the 19th Century West Port murders carried out by a pair of body-snatchers named William Burke and William Hare.

Welsh has decided to bring it up to date, though, by setting it in modern day Edinburgh and roping in Razorlight’s emotionally-stunted singer to play the role of a sap murdered by Robert Carlyle and Colin Firth for his lucrative internal organs.

Borrell will play a poor Irish musician, ‘which should be a challenge on all counts’ et cetera, in The Meat Trade reports The Daily Star.

The Meat Trade is scheduled for release some time late in 2008.

“Johnny Borrell is the absolute worst,” remarked Let’s Wrestle’s Wesley Patrick Gonzalez. “He’s the enemy.”