Hocus Pocus...

..by Focus. Ah the many happy hours spent pogoing to that track in college. Or something like that anyway. A classic track that consists of Yodelling, Guitar and Organ freakout, Drum flourish and repeat. This and many others were heard this evening at the Junction.

They played a bunch of tracks from a recent album, Focus 8, strangely skipped over 5,6 and 7 and played most of  the old favourites from the first four albums. They closed the first set with House Of The King, their first UK single, which everyone at the time thought was by Jethro Tull - pretty much because it featured a flute - a fact that they stilll mentioned in the intro. It's also a track which for years I've been sure was once used as a theme tune to something but still can't work out what.

So they closed with Hocus Pocus and then came back for a pair of encores - neither of which I recognised so I kind of wished they'd left on the high after the finale.

The final intro featured some of that infamous Dutch humour. "This track is called 'Brother and Sister' - but we have to finish at 11 so tonight it is just called 'Brother', but it is for the sisters too".

UPDATE: Apparently it was used as the theme to "Don't Ask Me" (1974).