Tujiko Noriko, Bush Hall, 27/02/08

I’m a little confused by The Local’s expansion into the promotion of gigs all across London. When they were doing shows in The Kings Head (annoyingly apostrophe free – the Kings head where exactly?) in Crouch End it made sense.  Not least of all because it technically is my local.  But Shepherd’s Bush isn’t local to anywhere as far as I can tell – even its two tube stations aren’t local to each other.  Still, seems churlish to complain when the Local – in conjunction with the End Of The Road folks – put together evenings as enjoyable as this one.  And for a highly bargainous fiver too.  I would have paid several times that just to see Tujiko Noriko alone; she doesn’t exactly play here too often.