A show list fails when it tries to be a diary of everything happening in Belgium. You will not go to all of it. The useful list is short enough to check on a Sunday, and honest enough to drop a night you were never going to reach.
Three lines, not a spreadsheet
For each night, write the artist, the city, and why this one is on the list. “Support looks interesting” is a reason. “Someone posted a clip” is a reason. “I already like the record” is a reason. If you cannot finish that third line, the date is decoration.
Keep the list where you already look. A note on your phone is enough. A second app that you open only for concerts will go stale in a fortnight. The venues guide is there when you need to remember which room matches which kind of bill. It is not the list itself.
One city you can actually reach
Pick the city you can get to after work, then allow one exception a month for a further trip. Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges, and Leuven each have rooms that program songwriter and folk-leaning nights. Following all five every week is how the list becomes a guilt document. Following one, plus a rare train, is how you leave the house.
When two bills fall on the same evening, keep the one with a name you do not know yet, unless the known show is the whole reason you started paying attention. Discovery and loyalty are different jobs. The page on discovering indie-folk artists is about the first job. A list can serve both, but not in the same line.
Review it once a week
Once a week, delete anything that has passed, and anything more than a month away that you would not travel for today. Add at most three new lines. If the venue’s own page has changed the bill, change your line or remove it. Do not keep a guess.
After you go, write one sentence the next morning: stay for the next record, or don’t. That sentence is more useful than a star rating. If you want a way to make the sentence specific, use what to notice on a first listen on the record before you decide the artist stays on the list.