Mary, Deer

We don't post much new music here on The Island, but that doesn't mean we don't listen to it. Mary Epworth is primarily a folk artist, but specialises in connecting to an especially creepy, occasionally Black Sabbath infused ancient weirdness  - less finger in the ear, more Hand Of Glory.

The Outcasts

Speaking of bikers as outsiders, here's a BBC documentary about a Norfolk Hell's Angels gang called The Outcasts. Originally shown in 1985, it has its share of odd images and amusing characters, but is shot through with a dark seam of real life horror which is only fully exposed right at the end.

Black Leather Rock

Perhaps befitting their status as folk devils and leather clad outsiders, bikers mostly feature as a threat in British horror films, although their self-consciously tough image is just as often the subject of mockery, parody or homoerotic innuendo in other genres.