Phew + Freddie Murphy & Simon Catling live in Manchester

Gotobeat is proud to team up with The White Hotel, Manchester to bring legendary Japanese alternative artist Phew to city on Tuesday 11th November.

Phew
Plus special guest Freddie Murphy & Simon Catling
The White Hotel, Manchester
Tuesday 11th November 2025
Doors 19:00

PHEW
Phew is a legendary figure in Japanese underground music. Starting out in 1978 fronting one of Osaka’s earliest punk groups, Aunt Sally, and going on to collaborate with a whole host of notable names as a solo artist in the 80s, including Ryuichi Sakamoto, Conny Plank, Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit of Can, Alex Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten, and Chrislo Haas of DAF. In recent years she’s made music on record or live with Ana da Silva of The Raincoats, Jim O’Rourke, Oren Ambarchi, Ikue Mori, and Yoshimi of OOIOO / Boredoms / Saicobab. Since the early 2010s, Phew has explored the intersection of voice and electronic music, earning international acclaim as a visionary electronic artist.

FREDDIE MURPHY
Freddie Murphy is a sound artist and curator based in Torino, Italy. His sonic research has shifted from cathartic performances to express the Catholic sense of guilt to an intimate investigation on feelings of loss and acceptance connected with grief. As founding member of the Italian Occult Psychedelia’s outfit Father Murphy he released a series of concept albums and performed extensively across the world. His latest output, “The Night shows no Dawn” is a sonic exploration into the practice of funeral laments, a formal device used in many cultures to express and contain the emotions of grief.

SIMON CATLING
Independent promoter for the last 15 years around Manchester as Grey Lantern as well as synth player in industrial noise band Mandy, Indiana, Catling's DJ and soundtracking has been heard on the likes of Steam Radio and Noods as well as at festivals including Green Man and Sounds From The Other City.