norman continued to play live at house music events throughout the uk and on the international club scene, performing with his saxophone, or occasionally percussion alongside such musicians as byron stingily of ten city, frankie knuckles, angie brown, steve edwards, alison limerick, jeremy healy and brandon block. norman formed a partnership with hed kandi, dj john jones and martin ikin from soul purpose called 'the collective'. their first production was a re-working of joe smooth's "promised land" featuring peyton on lead vocals and shelley preston (formerly of bucks fizz) on backing vocals. in 2013, norman played on three tracks on bruce foxton's album, "back in the room". he also played on james stevenson's album "everything's getting closer to being over" released in 2014.