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.”