It would be interesting to know why they were apologising for Pink Floyd - they didn't turn up? Were the wrong sort of band?

Cabaret all week, with pop nights (later a Hippy club) on Sundays.

"Mr Smiths was split into 2 parts. It later became a Hippy Club on a Sunday night.

As you entered you had a room with a stage, saw Curved Air & Atomic Rooster there. Then you went through a small tunnel into a room with a podium in the middle where they used to have a DJ."

Chris

Drokiweeny was part of Mr Smiths around 1967/68. There was the main cabaret room, a large disco they called the Drokiweeny and a room called the Bus Bar where you could have a quite drink.
They may of course have had "turns" on in that room after I stopped going.

Stuart

My mother was manager of Mr Smiths Club when the Drokiweeny, the discotheque part opened. The club was owned by an agent called Paddy McKiernan.

The Sunday night 'alternative' night was called the Electric Circus and featured all sorts of bands - I even saw Keith Moon from the Who in there, not performing but chatting up the cloakroom girl.

People were wandering round selling electric yo-yos and underground magazines - 'the Mole'?

Can't remember exactly which year but the resident band in Mr Smiths was called 'Campus' which featured Dave Tomlinson (St Louis Union) on the keyboards.

Laraine Birtles