Gig of the week is Gary Numan. The original synth master brings his Machine Music tour to The Button Factory on Saturday 26th, tickets €25.
Life Festival is taking place down in Belvedere House this weekend, tickets for the staple electronic music festival are €95.
Mammy sing along favorite Barry Manilow is hitting The O2 on Wednesday 23rd, tickets €33.50-91. Thursday 24th sees another one for the Mammies with five-time Grammy Award winner and soul queen Dionne Warwick taking to Vicar Streets stage for her 50th anniversary tour, tickets €59.
If singer songwriters are more your thing Newton Faulkner plays Whelans on Sunday 27th, tickets €22.50, and catch Mundy in The Abbey Tavern on Saturday 26th, tickets €18.35.
For everything else see below:
| Gig Listings May 21st – 27th | ||||
| 2012-05-23 | Barry Manilow | The O2 | €33.5 – 91 | Ticketmaster |
| 2012-05-23 | Sleep | The Button Factory | €21.50 |  |
| 2012-05-24 | Alt-J | Academy 2 | €12 | Ticketmaster |
| 2012-05-24 | Billy Yates & Robert Mizzell | The Great Northern Hotel | €25.15 | Ticketmaster |
| 2012-05-24 | Brendan Benson | The Button Factory | €22.00 | |
| 2012-05-24 | Bronagh Gallagher | Dolans Warehouse | €16.35 | Ticketmaster |
| 2012-05-24 | Dionne Warwick | Vicar Street | €59 | Ticketmaster |
| 2012-05-24 | DZ Deathrays | Mc Hughs Basement Bar | €10.25 | Ticketmaster |
| 2012-05-24 | Howe Gelb | Whelan’s | €17.50 | |
| 2012-05-24 | Kings of Lyon | The Village | €10.00 | |
| 2012-05-24 | Paul Kalkbrenner | Olympia Theatre | €23 – 25.5 | Ticketmaster |
| 2012-05-25 | Alt-J | The Stiff Kitten | €11.25 | Ticketmaster |
| 2012-05-25 | DZ Deathrays | Academy 2 | €6.3 | Ticketmaster |
| 2012-05-25 | Life Festival | Belvedere House Gardens & Park | €134 | Ticketmaster |
| 2012-05-25 | The Damned | The Academy | €25 | Ticketmaster |
| 2012-05-26 | Aura Noir | The Pint | €16 | Ticketmaster |
| 2012-05-26 | Donal Lunny, Padraig Rynne, Sylvian Barou | The Thatch Rahan | €18.50 | |
| 2012-05-26 | GALA CHORAL CONCERT | Royal Theatre and Event Centre | €20 | Ticketmaster |
| 2012-05-26 | Gary Numan | The Button Factory | €25.00 | |
| 2012-05-26 | Hush War Cry | Cyprus Avenue | €10.00 | |
| 2012-05-26 | Kings of Lyon | Empire Music Hall | €11 | Ticketmaster |
| 2012-05-26 | Lethal Dialect | The Workman’s Club | €12.00 | |
| 2012-05-26 | Life Festival | Belvedere House Gardens & Park | €95 | Ticketmaster |
| 2012-05-26 | Mundy | Abbey Tavern | €18.35 | Ticketmaster |
| 2012-05-26 | Newton Faulkner | Limelight | €19.5 | Ticketmaster |
| 2012-05-26 | Noize Kulture | Cyprus Avenue | €7.00 | |
| 2012-05-26 | Ozric Tentacles | The Village | €17.50 | |
| 2012-05-26 | Subject at POGO – David Kitt & Tr One | The Twisted Pepper | €12.00 | |
| 2012-05-26 | The Damned | Mandela Hall | €18 | Ticketmaster |
| 2012-05-26 | The Original Rudeboys | Roisin Dubh | €14.85 | Ticketmaster |
| 2012-05-26 | Totally Wired | The Academy | €17.35 | Ticketmaster |
| 2012-05-26 | TR One | The Twisted Pepper | €11.75 | Ticketmaster |
| 2012-05-27 | Aura Noir | Voodoo | €12 | Ticketmaster |
| 2012-05-27 | Bronagh Gallagher | The Pavilion | €10.00 | |
| 2012-05-27 | John Sinclair & Howard Marks | The Button Factory | €19.50 | |
| 2012-05-27 | Liam Geddes | Academy 2 | €11.75 | Ticketmaster |
| 2012-05-27 | Life Festival 2012 – Sunday Ticket | Belvedere House Gardens & Park | €70.45 | Ticketmaster |
| 2012-05-27 | Newton Faulkner | Whelans | €22.5 | Ticketmaster |
| 2012-05-27 | Papa M | The Workman’s Club | €16.00 | |