Sheffield music listings websites

Three more what’s on sites for the city

Last October I did a round-up of general what’s on event sites for Sheffield and now there are a further three music listings websites to add to the list:

Off the beaten track features gigs and events that you might not know about. It also tries to give a sample of the music so you know what to expect. The site is RSS-friendly and you can filter the feeds so you just get information for venues you are interested in.

Boxmusique doesn’t appear to just cover Sheffield, but the music news and criticism it includes does have a healthy local bias. You can also subscribe just to the RSS feeds relating to your favourite genres of music. It is also on Twitter at @boxmusique.

Thelist includes listings for ‘independent and forward-thinking music events, radio shows, art showcases, artists and websites’. It has been around since last summer, though updates are quite sporadic and you can’t organise the information that easily.

The Drum by ToneRay on Flickr (used under Creative Commons license)

The Drum by ToneRay on Flickr (used under Creative Commons license)

Sheffield blog on Twitter

Last week I took the plunge and gave this blog a presence on the micro-blogging site Twitter, which you can find at twitter.com/sheffieldblog.

I’ve had a personal Twitter account for a year and have been thinking about doing this for a while. In the end I decided that the additional time taken to maintain a second account would be worthwhile, as I can use it to:

  • alert non-RSS blog readers that a new post has been published
  • give a home to Sheffield-related snippets/links that may not deserve a full blog post but are still of interest
  • allow me to quickly and easily put content live while on the move
  • act as a networking tool and means of promotion
  • be a source for blog post material, as receiving tweets gives a continuing snapshot of what Sheffield Twitter-ers are up to

In due course, I will probably also use something like LoudTwitter to import tweets as posts into the main blog.

So if you are on Twitter then please hook up now!

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