At the heart of Doorway Drunks resides singer/songwriter Dean Billingsley.
Dean was brought up on a leafy street between two council estates in Liverpool's Huyton. (Known to Liverpudlians as 'Two Dogs' from local rhyme 'Huyton, Huyton, two dogs e and one was a white'n).

As co-founder of indie band Us Being Them, Dean rose to prominence in Liverpool in the mid-to-late 90's. On the verge of national success the band experienced managerial and personnel problems and sadly, was to disband.

Dean continued as a solo artist and, unfettered by colleagues' musical directions, eventually developed the sound he had always strived for.

His early life was a balancing act between aggressive surroundings, an oppressive bible based cult, and his own developing sense of the aesthetic. A compulsive diarist he has always worked from the instinct of documenting his life and, at seventeen, he found his true vehicle in song writing. It has become his natural means of expression, not just in his lyrics, but in his music, which somehow manages to express the full rainbow of our human experience.