Focus, with Thijs van Leer, Pierre van der Linden, Menno Gootjes and Udo Pannekeet, play The Drill on Free School Lane for the Diplodocus Tour 2027.
Focus are playing The Drill on Friday 13 August 2027, as part of their Diplodocus tour. It's a lineup that'll be familiar to anyone who's followed them for a while: Thijs Van Leer, Pierre Van Der Linden, Menno Gootjes and Udo Pannekeet.
If you're coming to them from the 60s and 70s, you'll know them as the band that just keeps going. They're fresh from a busy 2026 touring schedule and the 2024 release of Focus 12, their latest studio album, and they're back on UK and European stages. Over more than 55 years, they've hit the UK top ten, claimed a knighthood, and played the orchestra pit of Victor Spinetti's musical Hair. Their most well-known track, 'Hocus Pocus', has turned up in the 2017 film Baby Driver and Disney's Trolls World Tour (2020), and it was a favourite of Bob Harris on The Old Grey Whistle Test.
They describe each song as uniquely their own and every performance different, so the set will be a mix of the older material and the newer stuff from Focus 12. The lineup on stage is Thijs Van Leer, Pierre Van Der Linden, Menno Gootjes and Udo Pannekeet.
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Doors open at 19:00 at The Drill, Free School Lane, LN2 1EY. Reserved seating is £30.00, plus a £3.00 booking fee (£33.00 total) and a £1.00 transaction fee per order. Under-16s must be accompanied by an adult.
