Carausias Arise! and Alula Down at Weirdshire, Artlandish, Hereford.
Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2026
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Carausias Arise! and Alula Down at Artlandish Tuesday March 17th TICKETS
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Carausias Arise!
Carausias Arise is the project of Dr Dafydd Roberts, who runs the This is The Voice Of Fire cassette and cdr label, and organises the wonderful Gwyl Ffynnon Garon festival in Tregaron each March bringing together experimental and folk idioms - which with great misfortune clashed with the Weirdshire March weekend just now… Some examples of his work include releases on labels in USA, Germany and Australia, played by John Peel, BBC Wales and on Resonance FM. Biba Kopf in The Wire describes his music as “a fabulous delirium of competing frequencies”. He has collaborated with Toshimaru Nakamura to devise an object score deriving from Japanese ceramics. For this Weirdshire show he will be bringing modular synthesis, possibly voice, and great imagination.
But what of Carausias Arise!? Dafydd offers: “Flashing like a rending past, from the reaping of the field of grief and revenge in the world, to walk the plains of Paradyce. Carausias Arise! emerge from the auntient county of Ceredigion and conjure a spectral mesh from song and synthesis, a slightly psychedelic electronic choral hybrid.”
... a “weird and wonderful alchemy” Tom Ridge (The Wire).
Alula Down
Alula Down are from Herefordshire, and I can’t lie, it’s me and Kate. We have been evolving the live set, and we’ll be playing songs from across all of our recorded releases, stretching all the way back to 2018’s Homespun.
Double bass, vocals, reel to reel tape, field recordings.
Alula Down bring a blend of improvisation, collage, drone, field recording, sparsity - silence - fragility, noise, dialogue and textured soundscape. We often explore folk song, where many traditional and vernacular forms illuminate dispossession and inequality.
This date is the first in a series of 6 live shows we’re doing this Spring, including dates in London, Sowerby Bridge, Todmorden, Glasgow and Dumfries & Galloway.
PRESS ABOUT ALULA DOWN:
“A folk interpretation of Can doesn’t feel too fanciful a descriptor.” - Noel Gardener / The Quietus, 2025
“…gorgeous folky brunt. Brilliant music.” - Byron Coley / The Wire, 2024
“What shines through the most here is the band’s deep connection to the land under their feet.” - Patrick Clarke / The Quietus, 2024
“These albums resonate with and helped to inspire our treatment of the Thames on our new album, and hold a quality both eternal and contemporary ...” - Shovel Dance Collective, 2022
“Post-rock and ambient fans will relish the shape-shifting textures. Gathercole’s voice is featherlight and meaningful, recalling Vashti Bunyan and late 60s private-press folk, tethering the listener to every syllable.” - Jude Rogers / The Guardian, 2020
Here’s a bit of Alula Down playing at the Horse Hospital, in London in October 2025:
https://vimeo.com/1132980605?fl=pl&fe=sh
NB This show will be at the pop up gallery, Artlandish - this is in Gomond Street, in the Maylord Orchards, in Hereford town centre HR1 2DP. Pedestrian access only but only a short walk from any of the town centre car parks.