Smoke Dreams is quite deceptive. Go in and it's your usual bong-selling, tattoo-giving, insence-offering, alternative jewellery kind of place. Cool, if that's your thing, but you can find these shops anywhere.
Go downstairs, now, and it all changes. Smoke Dreams boasts the biggest collection of alternative and metal band t-shirts I've ever seen in one room outside of Camden. There are some really obscure bands on offer, too, it's not just that they have every Metallica tour t-shirt. It's not just clothing, either, one can buy buttons, flags, patches... if it's been available as band merch, there's a good chance it'll be in this basement.
They also sell accessories, and studs to accessorise your accessories. It's an incredibly stocked range of studding options, as well, so this is where I would suggest you go to embellish your op-shop leather. read more