The Trainspotter's Notebook: The unmissable book from TikTok's trainspotting sensation

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Given the perception amongst his school peers that trainspotting was uncool, he explained that his pseudonym allowed him to "feel a bit more protected" when making videos.

Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you. The only difference is that both of them have managed to do extremely well in the past decade and no one will bat an eyelid anymore if you said you liked either. Bourgeois appeared in episode 2 of the Kathy Burke channel 4 documentary, Kathy Burke: Growing Up, where the former discussed his career. He is an observer of the world around him and paints rich pictures with his words even when describing the most ordinary things.On 18 November 2022, Trainline launched a social campaign featuring Bourgeois and Craig David to raise awareness of the environmental benefits of traveling by train. However, he films himself by attaching a GoPro to his forehead; if you have seen any of his videos, you will know that this has the effect of distorting his face beyond all comprehension. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Bourgeois' initial TikTok posts consisted of fake "interviews" and comedic doctored videos of himself conversing with celebrities over Instagram Live, including British rapper Swarmz, drill artist Digga D, and alt-pop artist Billie Eilish, as well as Kylie Jenner, [32] which garnered him an early following.

However, when you go round and see people are happy to watch someone be enthusiastic about trains, its some good soft power for the hobby as it will encourage people to look at them through a different eye and potentially join the hobby . Bourgeois’s guest is the Nottingham Forest winger Jesse Lingard, and it is a masterstroke of casting. In mid-December 2021, he was accused of donning a superficial persona after photographs from his adolescence emerged, as well as videos of him raving. It happens in the end, but only after something much more momentous than you would expect from an 11-minute YouTube video.Bourgeois is interested in electronic music, [111] [9] favouring artists like Aphex Twin and Squarepusher.

The first, which features as a guest the comedian Aisling Bea, is an ungainly cross between his TikToks and Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. Full Steam Ahead with Francis Bourgeois" won the award for "best fashion film" at Berlin Fashion Film Festival 2022. After visiting the Peco factory at Pecorama in Devon at the age of four, his grandmother gave him his first model railway set, a Hornby [9] [24] set consisting of a " Pannier tank and some old freight wagons"; his set would gradually receive additions at Christmas and birthdays.On 15 November 2022, Spotify unveiled the Discover List 2022, their 2nd annual showcase of 50 influential creators on the platform across five categories; Bourgeois was categorized as one of five leading "icons. was on 99p Kindle deals, I am already a bit of a plane spotter (keep that quiet) and I was curious to find out a bit more about trains seeing as my local station Huddersfield has the most cancellations in the UK. berlin fashion film festival 2022 (best fashion film) – Full Steam Ahead with Francis Bourgeois – Gucci x North Face – Black Dog Films". As you're reading, you can hear his voice and his excitement and it transports you to the railway platform or track side fence with him.

It's no more unusual than quite a few posters on RUK that seem to have some psycological dependency on travelling on every train of an indential class, or cover every inch of a line in both directions including sidings and relief tracks. After multiple media appearances and collaborations with public figures such as Thierry Henry, Joe Jonas, Rosalia and Sam Fender, plus brands such as Gucci and Spotify, Bourgeois has a growing social media following of more than 4. At times funny and heart-warming, meditative and reflective, and always joyous, The Trainspotter's Notebook is an ode to the places and people of the railway from the internet's most beloved trainspotter. At least his former friend Ryan Windridge is still presenting as his true self and living a normal life.Afterward, Bourgeois appeared on the Gucci Podcast alongside Bryanboy to discuss the relationship between fashion and social media. I personally am not on TikTok (or even know much about it) so have never watched his stuff, but it does fascinate me to see how young people react when he's around. I then got 'it' and understood Francis simply loved trains and allowed the viewers into his passion on his terms. It's nothing to do with 'jealousy', they just don't need or want a 'poster boy' making media appearances on their behalf. I look down and pull up my sleeve: I've got goosebumps, making all the hairs on my arm stand on end.