I can understand why it's critics hate it - I think it's one of those films that if it doesn't get under your skin could be deeply irritating. For me, it's one of those I keep coming back to, ever since seeing it at a one-off afternoon showing at the Cornerhouse in Manchester sometime in the 80s. I remember being absolutely entranced and then somehow disppointed on leaving the cinema that I was rejoining a typically grey, drizzly, ordinary Manchester teatime. Summerisle stayed with me for a long time. The film is one of the things that led me back to a love both of folksong and fakesong.

Christopher Lee once said that the loss of most of the bits of the film that were cut prior to original release was one of his greatest regrets.

I believe that the Memory Band did some gigs last year involving playing the soundtrack live as the film was shown. Any one here see them?