Band Supplies is the kind of shop that you can’t go in without ringing the doorbell. I’m never quite sure why business owners do this — sure it keeps timewasters away, but it also keeps away the browsers who might be tempted by impulse buys. At first I thought this was a bizarre position for a music shop, but if you look around you’ll actually find that just around the corner there is a specialist violin shop and another music shop. Although it looks a little bit like a jumble store inside(there are piles of boxes everywhere) Band Supplies is actually one of the UK’s leading musical retailers(or so they say!) They’re not the cheapest place for musical instruments — but they’ve been in the business a long time and sell good quality products.