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Norma Bates is a Swedish rock/punk/garage-band formed in 2004. Group members are Julia Blomgren (vocals), Christian Massana (guitar), Jenny Sjöström-Massana (bass) and Pär Ekberg (drums). On Nov 14 2007 the group released the single Bow Down in Sweden. Among other songs are You Make Me Fine and Pushing and Smashing. Officiell website: www.normabates.com. .

There are at least three Norman bates'. One is a hardcore band from jersey: http://www.myspace.com/normanbatesmetal And the other one is a german jazz/funk/downtempo-rapper/singer, better known just as "Bates". He is currently working within his homebase "Zughafen", as well as artists like clueso, the rythm club or Makabu. www.normanbates.de Another one is a nu-metal / crossover band from Rakovník in Czech Republic. Check out their Bandzone profile. .

Reprobates was a hardcore/punk band from Toronto, ON, Canada. .

The singer and musician Martyn Bates has since the early 1980s been important to the development of new folk related music. Originally (and still) a member with Peter Becker of the adventurous independent band, ‘Eyeless In Gaza’ he has also had a long concurrent solo career. In his solo work he started to work in experimental folk music during the late 1980s when synthetic and pomp-rock music were the prevailing forms of the time. Folk music was generally ignored at best and often despised, it was therefore an early and bold move to promote the old traditional songs and stories...