OK gents, the night of beer-drinkin' has occurred, and Derek and I have a proposal for the next (bi-annual) Music-Club-focused-listening-and-friendly-competition-in-which-Derek-gets-annoyed-night. I'm going to suggest the third week in January as the tentative date - say Friday or Saturday of the 20th-21st weekend. And Mike, you should plan to come down for it.

And here it is. Rather than considering (and comparing) our favourite music from the Time dimension, we are proposing that we look at it from the aspect of GENRE. Yes, that's right. GENRE. As we did in 2010, we suggest that each Music Guru is randomly assigned a genre, and can play 15 minutes (max) of music when his turn is called, up to 4 tracks, and, for some of the genres, MAY play partials. We can sort out some of the other rules later (I have a few in mind). Same double elimination format.

The genres for your consideration:

Rock (hard)
Rock (soft and pop)
Jazz
Classical
Folk
Electronic

Of course there are others, but we felt that these would have the most play within the group. If we need fewer for fewer attendees, arguably Folk would be the first cut. I know Derek had a case of the willies when he thought of programming a night within that genre. We could put that to a vote.

What say you to the idea?