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Billy Nomates
English musician and songwriter From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Victoria Ann "Tor" Maries[2] (born 2 May 1990) is an English musician and singer-songwriter who performs under the stage name Billy Nomates.
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Life
Maries grew up in Leicester and was a member of a number of bands that failed to be noticed. Following a period of depression, a Sleaford Mods gig inspired Maries to return to making music and she moved to Bournemouth to write and compose.[3] Her stage name, Billy Nomates, was taken from an insult directed at her when she turned up at a gig on her own.[4] In 2024, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.[5]
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Music
Maries' first album was recorded in Bristol with Portishead's Geoff Barrow.[3] She released this in 2020[6] and quickly gained attention from BBC Radio 6 Music.[3] She describes her music as no wave.[4] Critics make mention of post-punk and describe her delivery as sprechgesang.[3][4] She featured on "Mork n Mindy" by Sleaford Mods in 2021. She released the Emergency Telephone EP in October 2021, produced by herself on Barrow's Invada record label.[7] Maries's second and third albums, Cacti and Metalhorse were released in 2023 and 2025.
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Reception
BBC Radio 6 Music DJ Amy Lamé chose Billy Nomates's debut as her Album of the Year in 2020.[8] The Guardian's Laura Snapes picked out Billy Nomates as one to watch in 2020, describing her voice as "deadpan yet biting", offering "an acute lens on British class structure".[3]
Discography
Studio albums
- Billy Nomates (2020)
- Cacti (2023)
- Metalhorse (2025)
EPs
- Emergency Telephone (2021)
Music videos
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References
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