Xiu Xiu

Calling all Dale Coopers, Audrey Hornes and Killer BOBs!

This October, experimental US punk outfit Xiu Xiu will be performing David Lynch and Angelo Badalementi’s unmistakeable soundtrack to the seminal TV series, Twin Peaks.

To celebrate the exhibition and retrospective ‘David Lynch: Between Two Worlds’ (co-curated by Lynch himself and currently on show at Queensland Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane) Xiu Xiu were asked to perform the soundtrack and after two sold-out events, will come to Europe for a handful of shows including one right here at Sage Gateshead.

And that’s not all; we’ll be turning into our very own corner of Washington State for the night – with music, visuals, and our very own Double R Diner set up for the evening. So come along for drinks, cherry pie and a damn fine cup of coffee.

And if you’re game, why not come dressed as your favourite from the show? Whether you’re the outlandish Dr. Jacoby, lovely Lucy Moran or slick Dick Tremayne, there’ll be prizes if you’re the best dressed.

‘Harry, I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don’t plan it. Don’t wait for it. Just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the men’s store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot black coffee’. Dale Cooper

Fittingly, Xiu Xiu’s music is an alluring cross-talk of jarring signifiers, elusive flirtations with genre, dream logic, dark-lit explorations of sexual deviance, which, taken whole, form an uncomfortable sense, a penetrative, unspoken truth it seemed impossible to arrive at.

Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu said: “The music of Twin Peaks is everything that we aspire to as musicians and is everything that we want to listen to as music fans. It is romantic, it is terrifying, it is beautiful, it is unnervingly sexual. The idea of holding the “purity” of the 1950s up to the cold light of a violent moon and exposing the skull beneath the frozen, worried smile has been a stunning influence on us.”