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Sat 03 Mar 2007Chick-lit on crack cocaineTVReview:'I ken you was always a wee bit kinky." Irvine Welsh, the bad boy of Scottish literature, who catapulted his rare and viciously lovely talent into our consciousness in the early 1990s with his book, Trainspotting, returned to his familiar terrain of Edinburgh's Leith this week with his first TV comedy drama, Wedding Belles.Welsh, who usually writes about men in various states of narcotic chaos, this time sharpened his gender pencil to tell an amusing but slightly predictable story about four mates, Amanda (who is about to marry an airline pilot) and her bridesmaids, Sharon, Rhona and Kelly.