Enter the world of David Lynch at the Twin Peaks UK Festival

It’s been a very good year for David Lynch fans, what with the release of Twin Peaks: The Return, Mul­hol­land Drive’s stun­ning 4k restora­tion and the high­ly enter­tain­ing doc­u­men­tary David Lynch: The Art Life, which explores the pop surrealist’s career up to the mak­ing of 1977 mid­night movie mar­vel, Eraser­head. Yes, Lynch­ma­nia is back on for the first time since its ear­ly 1990s heyday.

Inter­est­ing­ly, it was the reac­tion to 1992’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, which put an end to the love-in. Since its can­cel­la­tion in 1991, and the dis­as­trous recep­tion of the pre­quel, until the third sea­son, Twin Peaks fans, or ​‘Peakies’, had to make do with fanzines, occa­sion­al cast and crew inter­views, dis­cussing the show with friends down the booz­er and re-watch­ing the series over and over.

In the US, the Twin Peaks Fes­ti­val has oper­at­ed since the stu­dio-backed inau­gu­ra­tion in 1992, where Fire Walk with Me pre­miered in the US, and Lynch joked about the lousy reviews it got at Cannes. Then in 2010 Lon­don got its very own fest. The brain­child of Lind­say Bow­den, the annu­al two-day cel­e­bra­tion is return­ing for its eighth edi­tion in Octo­ber at Hornsey Town Hall.

In the past, guests from the show have includ­ed Sheryl Lee (Lau­ra Palmer/​Maddy Fer­gu­son), Bob­by Brig­gs (Dana Ash­brook), Mad­chen Amick (Shelly Johnson/​Briggs), singer Julee Cruise, Cather­ine Coul­son (the Log Lady), Phoebe Augus­tine (Ronette Pulas­ki) and Sher­i­lynn Fenn (Audrey Horne).

Fenn is one of the guests return­ing this year along with Michael Horse (Deputy Hawk), James Mar­shall (James Hur­ley), Amy Shiels (sea­son three’s nut­ty gangster’s moll Can­die), Ken­neth Welsh (Win­dom Ear­le) and – would you Adam and Eve it! – Twin Peaks’ own Iron Fist, Cock­ney secu­ri­ty guard, Fred­die Sykes (played by Jake Wardle).

Bow­den hasn’t set up a fan con­ven­tion per se – it’s more an immer­sive expe­ri­ence with recre­at­ed sets (the Black Lodge/​Red Room), the train car where Lau­ra died (not sure about that one), the Great North­ern bar and the Road­house. With live music, film screen­ings, sign­ing ses­sions and Q&As, the UK fest is the chance to rev­el in the unique mood of Twin Peaks and scoff copi­ous amounts of cher­ry pie downed with cof­fee served black as mid­night on a moon­less night.

The Offi­cial UK Twin Peaks Fes­ti­val runs from 7 – 8 Octo­ber. For more info vis­it twin​peak​suk​fest​.com