Live show by the Dutch pop-rock band Focus, with Thijs van Leer, Pierre van der Linden, Menno Gootjes and Udo Pannekeet.
Focus are playing Social on Thursday 22 April, their first Hull date in a while. They're the Dutch band from the 1960s and 70s that's still going, billed as the most successful and most appreciated of all the country's pop-rock exports. The line-up for the night is Thijs Van Leer, Pierre Van Der Linden, Menno Gootjes and Udo Pannekeet.
They're coming off a successful 2026 touring schedule and the 2024 release of the studio album Focus 12. This is part of a show they're taking across Europe, one the band describes as different from the one before. Their history is a bit of a pop culture oddity: they've claimed a knighthood, occupied the orchestra pit for Victor Spinetti's musical Hair, and their track 'Hocus Pocus' landed in the 2017 film Baby Driver and Disney's Trolls World Tour in 2020. After all these years, the band frames its survival as a triumph in itself.
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Doors open at 7:30 PM at Social, 63 Humber Street, HU1 1TU, and tickets are £27.50 plus booking fee.
