Don't Tell Presents

Committee of Sleep

Committee of Sleep are a four-piece lo-fi pop band from the North of the UK, crafting textured, emotionally driven songs that drift between shoegaze, bedroom pop, and DIY experimentation. Fronted by songwriter Olly Lightfoot, whose 2022 cancer diagnosis informs much of the band’s lyrical landscape, their music explores themes of love, loss, renewal, and quiet gratitude. Blending nylon-string guitars, cascading drums, warm basslines, and hazy harmonics, the band create a sound that feels intimate, dreamlike, and deeply human.

Their debut EP Ruling Overturned arrives in April 2026, led by the single “The Planet of Chocolate Bars,” a lucid, reflective track recorded in a rural cottage over New Year’s 2025. Committee of Sleep have shared stages with Yowl, Legss, HighSchool, Cruush, Constant Smiles, Pebbeldash, Midnight Rodeo and Bloodworm. Sitting somewhere between Duster, Bedhead, Elliot Smith, Slowdive, Pixies, and Guided By Voices, the band continue to build a world of introspective, DIY-spirited indie built on honesty and atmosphere.

Joined by

Pleasance

When Soph (guitar, vocals) fell out of her slimy glittery portal from another world and gained consciousness in Brighton, the first thing she thought was "I need to start a band". The resulting output with Izzy(drums), Ruby (bass, vocals) and Tom (guitar) is called Pleasance, and is very loud , very quiet, very strange, and very good, beautiful yet disturbing, like a violin bowed with entrails.

Heart and Mouth

Heart and Mouth is the emergent industrial folk project of London artist Flynn Mulcahy in collaboration with Soren Bryce. Debuting in January with launch single Heart in Mouth before releasing their debut album. They have garnered multiple radio plays on BBC 6 Music, plus early tastemaker nods from SoYoung, Far Out and Rough Trade.

Rooted in the earthbound musings of folk, Heart and Mouth is explosive yet flush with intimate textures and brittle sounds that seem ripped, patched, reshaped or regrown. Post release, the live band has been regularly gigging across the UK, with notable performances at The Lexington, Moth Club and several sold out shows.

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