“Doreen, Doreen, Doreen, Doreen”
– Doreen
So… what do we know about Doreen?
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Kitty
“In your room with the sloping roof, in your director’s chair, you talk with your hands about what you will you do next year, but no one gives a toss and we all go to Europe, watch Alvin Schockemohle where’er he competes…”
Surely, a piss take on advertisement and management and all that lifestyle we’re supposed to aspire to (see also… “along came a hosteller, I asked him his name?” – a different kind of smugness, but equally irksome)?
Shall we talk about Scafell? Has anyone ever been up from Langdale? And didn’t Coleridge fall down a gulley whilst tripping on something?
Can’t help finding the YouTube “Doreen” sketch thing a bit laugh-at-a-prole smug. Who wrote it? Google tells me the writer went to Grammar school in the 1950s and University thereafter. By simple maths, then, he was an undergraduate in the 1970s (at that time paid fully by the state). Now he writes these Telegraph-pleasing sketches for YouTube, taking the piss out of people he feels beneath him? Self-attribution fallacy and all that.
Bringing us neatly back to …”In your room with the sloping roof, in your director’s chair”…
5 September 2014
chigley skin
The most memorable Doreen for me personally has to be that childlike character from prisoner cell block H, often victimised by “vinegar tits” and “the freak”…. Poor woman, she’d only been locked up for public nuisance offences, best friend of prune faced Lizzy Birdsworth if my memory of cheap Australian drama serves me correctly?
7 September 2014
EXXO
Spot-on that Kitty, and he’s not even vaguely funny anyway. Look at the twattish wikipedia page he’s written for himself though he’s never actually done fuck all even his own pathetic little gently satirical world (yes David I know that’s a double negative). “People also search for Alan Ayckbourn.” I bet you do David, I bet you do. You crap-writing fuckwit.
Anyway …_the_ original Kitty from the Yahoo group? If so excellent, and if not how marvelous that there are more than one.
9 September 2014
john d boyle
Doreen,… Don’t make me wait till tomorrow, oooh noo. Please, darlin’, let me love you tonight: and it’ll be all right.
Frank Zappa
15 September 2014
peter mcornithologist
Doreen ,the Bra that conquered the world.A global best seller no less.
27 October 2014
kittymc
@ acidic regulator. I thought I’d read the sonnets, but I obviously wasn’t paying as much attention as I should have been. What was that quotation? Sonnet 73 you say… they don’t write them like that anymore! Thanks.
27 October 2014
kittymc
Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang… Got it. What a line! Thank you.
28 October 2014