In December 1981, Mark Simmonds' Freeboppers played at the All Souls Feast Dance, a music event conceived and produced by Alessio Cavallaro, at the Trades Union Club in Sydney, along with Laughing Clowns, The Makers of the Dead Travel Fast, and improviser, Jon Rose.
[3] Two songs of The Freeboppers were featured on the KMA (Keys Music Association) compilation LP in 1982 entitled March of the Five Limbs.
[6] A song called Kings Cross Drag was included on the 1993 Vox Australis album, Beyond El Rocco : The Ultimate Australian Jazz Soundtrack.
In an article from The Sydney Morning Herald 13 May 1987, jazz critic Gail Brennan wrote: "Mark Simmond's Freeboppers devastated the Basement with an unbroken hour-and-a-half orgy of rhythm and fire."
It goes on to say Mark "led a band that had played in public for a month (at the Piccadilly) and their confidence and cohesion were glorious to hear" and concludes; "It is not often that a reviewer of Australian jazz has no choice but to gush.