Last updated 21st September 1999
| 1996 | ||||
| DATE | VENUE | WHERE | OTHER BANDS | COMMENTS |
| 8th. August | The Durham Ox | Leicester | Performance | Set list: Suprmalt, Gone To Earth, Operation Lion, Bar Snacks, Baby
Javelin,
With An M. |
| 10th. Aug | Sorted Records Stage, Abbey Park Festival | Leicester | (Billed as SuperEight but playing Freed Unit songs)
Set list: Dark Cake, Suprmalt, 103.2, Chemistry Set, Yr Sister Is A Junkie. |
|
| 17th. Aug | The Railway Inn | Framlingham, Suffolk | The Melons, Lazarus Clamp, The Council. | The Freed Unit (billed as SuperEight) |
| 11th. Oct | The City Gallery | Leicester | Kevin Hewick | (The Freed Unit's first 'proper' gig to promote the release of the
Field
Reports... album. Both acts performed in front of an exhibition of Frank Bowling's paintings.) |
| 30th. November | The Old Angel | Nottingham | Lazarus Clamp, The Milk Of The Stars | |
| 1997 | ||||
| DATE | VENUE | WHERE | OTHER BANDS | COMMENTS |
| 29th January | The Charlotte | Leicester | Kookaburra | (Julie Kooks joined the band onstage to duet with Matt on Yr Sister
Is A
Junkie.) |
| 31st. Jan | Braunstone Civic Centre | Braunstone Town,
Leicester. |
The Freed Unit and many other bands/artists perform at Kevin Hewick's birthday party. Set list: Greetings From Ratcliffe Culey, Operation Lion, Feathering The Nest (This is a song by Kevin Hewick; the only cover version The Freed Unit have ever played.) | |
| 16th. March | Live session on Loughborough Campus Radio | Loughborough University | (The Thousand Layers Of The Purple Onion recorded at this session appears on the album Day-Glo.) | |
| 22nd. March | Sorted Records All-dayer
The Charlotte |
Leicester | John Sims, Holly Hobby, Kevin Hewick, etc... | |
| 6th. April 1997 | Piao!/Love Train 18 All-dayer,
The Garage |
London | Hood, Mogwai, Prolapse, Urusei Yatsura, etc... | (Reviewed in Melody Maker.) |
| 24th. May | The Packe Horse | Leeds | Hulaboy, Wack Cat | |
| 30th August | The Guildhall | Leicester | Kevin Hewick | (Reviewed in Melody Maker) |
| 19th. September | The Physio And Firkin | Leicester | Novak, The Fabiens | (Everything Is Nothing recorded live for The City B-side.) |
| 30th October | The Physio And Firkin | Leicester | Donkey, Formula One | |
| 12th. November | Upstairs At The Garage | London | The Electric Sound Of Joy, | (The headliners were originally Ganger,but they pulled out.One advert that appeared in the NME also listed Plone as third on the bill to E.S.O.J and The Freeds.) |
| 28th. November | The Physio And Firkin | Leicester | The O | |
| 10th. Dec | Upstairs At The Garage | London | Enraptured Records NightAlphastone, Amp | |
| 1998 | ||||
| DATE | VENUE | WHERE | OTHER BANDS | COMMENTS |
| 5th May | Live session on Loughborough Campus Radio | Loughborough University | ||
| 14th May | The Physio And Firkin | Leicester | Jad Fair, The Kittiwakes. | |
| 15th July | The Night And Day Cafe | Manchester. | The Silver Apples, Alphastone (Colin Altuccini joined to play second guitar at this and all subsequent gigs.) | |
| 8th August | Sorted Records Stage, Abbey Park Festival | Leicester | ||
| 4th September | Upstairs At The Garage | London. | Pram, Broken Dog | |
| Tuesday
13th October |
The Flapper & Firkin | Birmingham | L'Augmentation | |
| Thursday
15th October |
Upstairs at The Garage | London | Kramer, Wisdom Of Harry | |
| Friday
16th October |
The Albert | Brighton | Plankton, The Land Of Nod | |
| Sunday
18th October |
Bunkers Hill Inn | Nottingham | Quickspace, Solex | |
| Sunday
25th October |
13th Note Club | Glasgow | Electroscope, Kersland | |
| Saturday
19th December |
Upstairs at The Garage | London | Christmas Club Kosmiche | |
| 1999 | ||||
| DATE | VENUE | WHERE | OTHER BANDS | COMMENTS |
| 9th February | The Charlotte | Leicester | Cha Cha Cohen | |
| Wednesday 25th August | The Physio & Firkin | Leicester | Damon and Naomi, Nectar | |
| Friday 27th August | ULU, Gower St. | London | Terrastock 3 | |
| Tuesday 31st August | The Jericho Tavern | Oxford | Pop-Off Tuesday, Bablicon | |