A Certain Taste

 Live Review  Wolfbastard plus support from Heathen Deity, Baosbheinn & IL Billy Bootleggers, Nottingham, 22/03/25 Hosted by John Doe Promotions  Billy Bootleggers has a knack for pulling nights that feel like more than the sum of their parts, and this one — John Doe Presents: Wolfbastard (plus support) four bands, was exactly that. From the first notes to the last, the room stayed locked in. Sheffield's IL opened proceedings and immediately established that this was not going to be a night for easing in gently. Their set was built on tempo shifts and structural restlessness — just as a groove began to settle, it was pulled from under you, reshaped, and delivered back at a different angle. It is a difficult thing to make that kind of volatility feel purposeful rather than chaotic, and IL largely pulled it off. The closer, All Points of Pain , was flagged as the band's most emotionally direct piece — though there was nothing fragile about it. A shattering groove u...