Hap­py brings back its Vinyl Fri­day ses­sions for 2011. Our own Tom Ack­royd will be spin­ning his 12 inch­es with vim and vigour from 5.30pm (until 7.30).

Here is a lit­tle infor­ma­tion about Tom (and the oth­er DJ on the night);

“This week we have two incred­i­bly excit­ing, cost-effi­cient DJs:

GREG COBB was born in a box­car parked on a Mas­ter­ton rail­way sid­ing, where he was taught to play har­mon­i­ca by for­mer Lake Alice patient, “Hat Stand” Jones . In the Great Depres­sion he pur­sued a career in the pio­neer­ing Lon­don music indus­try, wait­ing tables and pur­chas­ing “reefer” for spoon-play­ing prodi­gy Lar­ry Spat­u­la Edi­son. Greg cur­rent­ly lives and works in Welling­ton where he enjoys beer and real estate spec­u­la­tion.

TOM ACKROYD is a Cam­bridge-edu­cat­ed physi­cist orig­i­nal­ly hail­ing from Sod­ber­ry-on-Thames. As a child he was fre­quent­ly beat­en sav­age­ly by school­mates over his pas­sion­ate advo­ca­cy for time sig­na­tures oth­er than 4/4. A gift­ed pianist, video­g­ra­ph­er and web brows­er, Tom is inter­est­ed in a wide vari­ety of music played by skin­ny guys with syn­the­sis­ers. His record col­lec­tion fea­tures some under­stand­ably rare Euro­trash from the ear­ly 80s.”