Bates is up to Nottingham more regulalry than a train service. He is a long standing member of the AGE crew famous for his wacky driving skills incredibly poor timekeeping and punctuality and his wayward shooting when playing football. He has a short temper which is often set to boiling point by any sporting activities with Daniel Bloodworth. He has built a reputation as a formidable AGE player and recently managed to win a pro evo tournament despite Martins best efforts to park the bus although one could point to the fact that we suspect Bates is a HUMAN. He has been famous for a number of PEs and GEs, including some great movement inside the penalty box leading to him losing the world's leading man-marker, Sameer Mannick, and scoring with a free header. Also, he famously fell over, both at AGEFest 2006 inside Moda, and also when pushing Matt Knight's broken down car down his road in West End. The second of these incidents proved controversial as Bates claimed that his hands did not touch the ground and so it could not be counted as falling over. These bleatings were largely disregarded.

His diminutive size is apparently down to being kept in a box in his youth, the only way his family could keep him from running out of the house to go to Nottingham and thus missing school. This however does not hold him back from winning the occasional header.

Daniel also owns a Queen of the Seas T-shirt which displays prominently his favoured role when playing Age of Empires, which he plays too much. He enjoys building as many ships as he can and then sending them to wreak havoc in opposing towns. However sometimes this backfires as he cannot get to most of the towns.